Discusses planning a garden for cutting, annuals and perennials, borders, ornamental grasses, cut flowers indoors, dried flowers, and growing specific species
Horticultural consultant Robinson takes a practical, how-to approach to constructing water features and integrating them into the landscape. Color photos and drawings are used to splendid effect. Included are handy instructions for evaluating purchased plants and fish and for handling routine care and feeding, pests, and diseases. The book concludes with a catalog of plants organized by their function in the garden (submerged, floating, or marginal). Concluding chapters catalog wetland plants indigenous to six regions of the United States and list specialty nurseries.
Olwell traveled around the western United States interviewing gardeners and photographing them and their gardens; the results are organized in this remarkable book. Olwell explores the diverse lives of these people and the myriad ways in which they have been affected by their interactions with plants. This celebration of gardening–from the deserts of the Southwest to Alaska, from highway landscaper to prison horticultural manager, from fruit tree specialist to garden artist–is a fascinating trip through experiences and emotions.