Book Review: Designing with Succulents
Karen Succulents are the plants that my grandmother grew in pots on the stairs in the front of her house. She hardly ever watered them and or paid much attention to…
Book Review: Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Backyard
One of the great pleasures of having a garden is watching the butterflies and birds that come to live there. Their beauty alone makes them desirable guests but added to…
Book Review: Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
Space can be a very limiting factor in designing a garden and being able to grow all the plants you want to grow. Growing plants on trellises, arbors, columns and…
Book Review: Herbs in Bloom: A Guide to Growing Herbs as Ornamental Plants
Herbs are usually grown for their foliage which is harvested for culinary or medicinal purpose with little thought given to the beauty of the flowers that many produce. Herbs in…
Book Review: The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible: A Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers
Living in an apartment or townhouse doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own vegetables. Many vegetables can be grown in pots including all time favorites like tomatoes and peppers. If…
Book Review: Green Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet
Gardeners can make a significant difference in protecting the environment and this book by Joe Lamp’l, host of the PBS series GardenSmart, tells them how. Actually, any home owner can…
Book Review: Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants
Concern for the environment has triggered great interest in invasive plants as well as native plants that make good garden companions. This book deals with both and provides information so…
Book Review: Deer-Resistant Landscaping: Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals
The morning I saw that the deer and eaten some of my favorite old garden rose bushes almost to ground I declared war on Bambi and his mom. Of course,…
Book Review: The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook
As every gardener knows, gardens are works in progress. There is a beginning, of course, but the garden is never finished and because it consists of living, growing plants, it…
Book Review: Growing and Propagating Wildflowers
If you like wildflowers and want to know more about them this book could be exactly what you are looking for. It includes detailed information on 200 genera and 1000…