It's easy to create soothing, exquisite water gardens anywhere! In a garden, on a patio, on a high-rise balcony, or even indoors- container water gardens bring the soothing sights and sounds of nature to any setting.
Using step-by-step photographs and instructions, and a plant directory of more than 90 water garden varieties, you'll learn how to:
Build and decorate your containers or use store-bought containers.
Choose, install, and maintain pumps and fountains.
Create elegant designs and maintain healthy plantings.
Incorporate tropical fish into your display.
Care for your water garden year-round.
Suggested price $24.95. Our price $10.95. Save 56%.
In this inspirational book support by the Royal Horticultural Society and illustrated with over 200 evocative photographs by distinguised garden photographer Andrew Lawson, the author guides the reader through the wealth of choice. Original. 2005.
Based on the hit television show, The Gardening Gamble, this book features highlights from twenty-two of the most popular episodes, complete with before and after photo, how to instructions and great gardening tips. With two days and $2,000 it's amazing what you can do to create a beautiful garden. New softcover.2005.
Shrubs are the the basic building blocks of any garden, providing a huge palette of shapes colors and textures. They can be quiet backdrops to the seasonal plants at the front of the border, or provide the color and zest that makes gardens great places to be in, and view, at any time of year. Since shrubs are permanent and long lasting, choosing, planting and manageing them is not something to leave to trial and error. Shrubs helps you select the right plant for the right place, ensuring not only a pleasing effect and year round interest, but also easy maintenance and above all lasting success in your garden. You will find many new and exciting shrubs here, as well as tried and trusted favorites. Original. New softcover, light crease on cover. 2005.
In The Prairie Winterscape: Creative Gardening for the Forgotten Season experienced gardeners Barbara Kam and Nora Bryan show how to claim winter as a gardening season by exploring the different and surprising ways to create natural beauty during the "no-grow" time of year. Many prairie gardeners are unaware that their gardens can be winter wonderlands with as much visual appeal as the glorious summer landscapes they are accustomed to.
For most, the first hard frosts are a sign to put the garden to bed until spring, which in some places and some years can be as many as 260 days away. That’s a long time for an avid gardener to be "on hold," yearning to work the soil and smell the roses.
But it needn’t be so. Suggested price $21.95. Our price $8.95. Save 59%
