epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:David L. Culp

The spring color of flowering trees (top) and the fall foliage (bottom) colors (shown here in Cercis ‘Forest Pansy’) are the signatures of woodland gardens in the region. But flowers ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Sandy Baker

Improving Soil Quality As with any plant, the condition of the soil greatly affects the resulting health of the grass. Soil often needs amending, and once that is complete, the ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-04 | Author:Neil Lucas

Ampelodesmos mauritanicus. Photograph courtesy of Dianna Jazwinski. Andropogon gerardii. Photograph courtesy of Dianna Jazwinski. ‘New Wave’. A striking selection from seed, with strong reddish stems that are distinctly upright, holding ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Graham Bell

Raised beds offer greater growing area, more choice of micro-climate, and are more interesting to look at than growing on the flat. A favourite amongst no-dig gardeners is the straight ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-06 | Author:Ken Druse

SMALL NORTH AMERICAN TREES (UNDER 30 FEET/9 M) FOR LIGHT SHADE AND FILTERED LIGHT Acer pensylvanicum—snake-bark maple, moosewood Aesculus pavia—red buckeye Alnus incana subsp. rugosa—speckled alder Amelanchier spp. and hybrids—shadblow, ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Donald Culross Peattie [Peattie, Donald Culross]

And now, as the hungry and exhausted men toiled through the gigantic jackstraw timbers of Idaho’s primeval forests, the captains sighted, on September 20, “an Arbor-vitae” — one they noted ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:Deborah G. Keever

Knock- Out- Roses Knock- Out- Roses was the result of William Radler’s dream. He wanted to breed a rose that was elegant, disease resistant, and a specimen that need very ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Piet Oudolf

Silphium, Asteraceae, cup plant, prairie dock Giant plants from the tall grass prairie. This is an almost extinct plant community in the American Midwest that consisted of grasses and perennials ...

epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

But not everything that happens at night can be blamed on raccoons. There are still enough inexplicable events so that the wise gardener confines gardening expeditions to the safe hours ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Michelle Slatalla

04 Gutter Talk Instead of mounted gutters on the facade, a Cape Cod house has a French drain wide enough to capture rainwater from the roof’s drip line. 05 Living ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Douglas Kent

OUTBUILDINGS Garden and tool sheds, well houses, woodsheds, and storage shacks are structures on a landscape that increase its amount of fuel. Like a house, an outbuilding can be designed ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Roy Diblik

Carex montana is a plant of continuity, one that creates repetition and harmony in a garden. Carex montana (mountain sedge) FLOWER Yellow to brown with maturity, ¾- to 1½-inch spikes, ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-30 | Author:Kim Eierman

Bee-Pollinated Flower Characteristics Flowering plants that are pollinated by bees tend to fall into two distinct categories: • simple, open, or bowl-shaped flowers that are relatively unspecialized (example: native roses, ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Nigel Colborn

Uncinia unciniata New Zealand Hook Sedge Grass-like perennial An understated but gently attractive sedge which forms slow-growing, tightly packed clumps of rhizomes from which narrow, leathery, rust-coloured leaves and stems ...

epub |eng | | Author:Akiva Silver

Chestnuts in bloom. They smell pretty weird, but they are beautiful and beneficial to many pollinators. Cultivation Cultivating chestnuts isn’t difficult if a few things are tended to. The trees ...