Flower Gardening In The Hot Midwest

Author : L. L. Hillegass
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0252068858

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Flower Gardening in the Hot Midwest by L. L. Hillegass Pdf

The Midwest presents special challenges to the aspiring flower gardener. This title outlines the author's tried-and-true strategies for outmaneuvering the midwestern climate to cultivate a thriving garden. It offers guidance on enriching the soil, composting, planting and transplanting, watering, pinching and pruning, and combating pests.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Flower gardening
ISBN : 1556522630

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The Best Flowers for Midwest Gardens by Anonim Pdf

The flowers described here will thrive and winter over in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Author : Pamela Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1556521774

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200 Tips for Growing Flowers in the Midwest by Pamela Wolfe Pdf

Reliable advice and succinct tips for growing a surprising variety of flowers from early spring until late autumn.

Author : Frances Manos
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1931599408

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Midwest Cottage Gardening by Frances Manos Pdf

Create your own beautiful cottage garden. This practical book offers advice to help Midwestern gardeners--whether novices or old pros--achieve beautiful, organic gardens drawing on ageold cottage garden traditions. Learn how to use a lively mixture of perennials, annuals, fruiting trees and shrubs, vegetables, and herbs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924073964565

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The Best Plants for Midwest Gardens by Anonim Pdf

From ground covers to shade trees, top choices for great home gardens in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Author : George E. Luxton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780816658213

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Flower Growing in the North by George E. Luxton Pdf

Flower Growing in the North was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Since home gardeners living in regions of very cold winters and short growing seasons find little attention paid to their special problems in most gardening books, they will welcome this month-by-month guide. It relates times of planting, needs for winter protection, and selection of plant varieties to the limitations of the northern climate. The best of George Luxton's popular gardening columns in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune form the basis of the book. For the winter season there is advice on the care of house plants and how to grow seedlings for transplanting outdoors. For the summer gardener there is information about annuals and perennials, fertilizers and insecticides, and garden equipment. Instructions on tree, shrub, and lawn care are given, too. Also included are many of the "Grandma sayings" from Mr. Luxton's newspaper columns. These homely bits of garden lore, which stem from his recollections of his own grandmother, are as intriguing and useful today as they were a generation of two ago.

Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015071443116

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Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog by Partners Book Distributing Pdf

Author : Edward Lyon
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604696981

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Growing the Midwest Garden by Edward Lyon Pdf

Plant selection and garden style are deeply influenced by where we are gardening. To successfully grow a range of beautiful ornamental plants, every gardener has to know the specifics of the region’s climate, soil, and geography. Growing the Midwest Garden, by Edward Lyon, the director of Wisconsin’s Allen Centennial Gardens, offers an enthusiastic and comprehensive approach to ornamental gardening in the heartland. This guide features in-depth chapters on climate, soil, pests, and maintenance, along with plant profiles of the best perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and bulbs.

Author : Diane Heilenman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-22
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780253026620

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Gardening in the Lower Midwest by Diane Heilenman Pdf

“A common-sense handbook for gardeners” who live in the plant hardiness zones of the Midwest with extreme temperature swings (HortScience). Garden columnist Diane Heilenman helps novice and experienced gardeners cope in the difficult and trying climate of the areas she labels Zombie Zones, where wild temperature swings are normal—“specifically, upper Kentucky; all of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; lower Iowa; all of Missouri; and the lower parts of Wisconsin and Michigan” (Library Journal). She shows how to create gardens appropriate for the region and how to select flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs that will be happy—and in turn make us happy. A gifted thinker who grapples with what it means to garden in our time, Heilenman has produced a book that “will help slacken the stress level that gardening was never meant to bring” (HortScience). “[Heilenman] gets to the heart, the soul and the humor shared by all in the gardening world . . . both a practical reference and an inspiration.”—The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN) “Presents basic gardening techniques and personal plant preferences in a breezy writing style.”—Library Journal

Author : Robert Buist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : NYPL:33433006561587

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The American Flower Garden Directory by Robert Buist Pdf

Author : Charlotte Adelman,Bernard L. Schwartz
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780821443569

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The Midwestern Native Garden by Charlotte Adelman,Bernard L. Schwartz Pdf

Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native plants or intending to go native all the way. Native plants improve air and water quality, reduce use of pesticides, and provide vital food and reproductive sites to birds and butterflies, that nonnative plants cannot offer, helping bring back a healthy ecosystem. The authors provide a comprehensive selection of native alternatives that look similar or even identical to a range of nonnative ornamentals. These are native plants that are suitable for all garden styles, bloom during the same season, and have the same cultivation requirements as their nonnative counterparts. Plant entries are accompanied by nature notes setting out the specific birds and butterflies the native plants attract. The Midwestern Native Garden will be a welcome guide to gardeners whose styles range from formal to naturalistic but who want to create an authentic sense of place, with regional natives. The beauty, hardiness, and easy maintenance of native Midwestern plants will soon make them the new favorites.

Author : Robert Buist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : CHI:086358643

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American Flower Garden Directory by Robert Buist Pdf

Accession no. 90.326.2.

Author : Robert Buist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044026850644

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The American Flower Garden Directory by Robert Buist Pdf

Author : Susan McClure
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : 9780878339853

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Midwest Gardener's Book of Lists by Susan McClure Pdf

This new addition to the "Book of Lists" series lists plants that complement architecture, can withstand drought and bloom for weeks, and much more, plus features and lists on vegetable gardening, perennials for water gardens, and trees for urban areas. Illustrations.

Author : Alan Branhagen
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604697773

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Native Plants of the Midwest by Alan Branhagen Pdf

Native Plants of the Midwest features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden.