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Gene Logsdon has found an imaginative way to introduce gardeners to amore total enjoyment of nature -- fauna as well as flora. From suburb tocountryside, every gardener knows that there are many pests who delight in one'sprecious creations -- rabbits devour petunias, raccoons eat the almost ripe sweetcorn, deer browse the morning glories, crows pull up young corn sprouts. How cangardeners and wildlife live together in harmony. Gene knows.

Finally: a guide to gardening with plants native to the lower Midwest Using a simple Q & A format, this informative and user-friendly book offersadvice on planning, site and soil preparation, garden design, plant selection, andpropagation. Includes 125 illustrations and 100 color photos. A must-have forMidwestern gardeners.

Ezra Haggard, author of the popular Perennials for the Lower Midwest, literally takes landscape design to a higher level with this gorgeous bookespecially for midwesterners. Trees and shrubs add mass and the all-importantvertical element to a garden. If well chosen, they also contribute beauty, texture, and color all year long and for years to come, beautifying the home and adding toits value, screening out unattractive elements, providing privacy, and improvingwith age.

Haggard considers all aspects o

"The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." -- New York Times(March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IUPress).

"Genuinely a classic..." -- Los Angeles Times (on theoccasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in1994).

"Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest ingardening who doesn't know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and mosttruthful garden columnists we've got?" -- Allen Lacy

"Mitchell isa joy to read. He has tried and failed, persevered

"A masterpiece, full of charm and humor." -- Dr. Rebecca W.Dolan, Director, Friesner Herbarium, Butler University

Whetherit's urban, suburban, or rural, nearly every property has some shade, if only on thenorth side of the house. Countless more are "blessed" with giant treesplanted decades ago that screen out the sunlight. Under such conditions, you maythink that it's impossible to have an interesting garden without a lot of work. Notso if you are willing to learn about the plethora of easygoing hortic

Designed for accessibility, this book offers tried-and-true advice on howto keep a yard in bloom. Presented in the sequence in which they bloom, with achapter devoted to each of the three major growing seasons, 25 varieties of flowersare profiled with accompanying color illustrations. Additionally, Moya L. Andrewsprovides information about such basic topics as bed preparation, planting locations, weed control, and landscape principles. Andrews also offers practical tips onpropagating, transplanting, and

..". a common-sense handbook for gardeners... It will help slackenthe stress level that gardening was never meant to bring." --HortScience

" Diane Heilenman] gets to the heart, the soul and the humor shared by all in the gardening world... both a practicalreference and an inspiration... " -- The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN)

Diane Heilenman tells novice and experiencedgardeners how to cope in this difficult and trying climate, create gardensappropriate for the region, and select flowers, pla

Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet in thevast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means - on theecology of garden as idea, place, and action. The Meaning of Gardens maps out howthe garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued. Essays from a variety ofdisciplines are organized around six metaphors special to our time - the gardenmuses of Faith, Power, Ordering, Cultural Expression, Personal Expression, andHealing. Each muse suggests specific insp

A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history oflandscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up awide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening wasgradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitatedthroughout Europe and North America.The English landscape garden is richlydocumented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that rangefrom Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from

John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today'swriters on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens andthe Picturesque collects 11 of Hunt's essays - several of them never beforepublished - that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning togardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have representedthe world of nature "picturesquely."Ranging over subjects from the cult of thepicturesque to verbal-visual parallels with

Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that recreatetime and place, this book skillfully integrates the history of French gardens withthe modern history of ideas.Denise Le Dantec is a poet and Professor of Philosophyat the Centre National d'Enseignement ? „istance, Paris. Jean-Pierre Le Dantecis a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of ParisLa-Villette.

There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and indiverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playfuland affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapesand gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasuresbut as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideasfor transforming our own backyards.The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of placesand the gardens they can

Covering Texas and beyond, Plants of the Metroplex is the only Texas book available giving practical landscape advice from a landscape architect's point of view. Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as a gardener, landscape contractor, maintenance contractor, and landscape architect to give you clear-cut, money-saving advice on the proper selection, installation, and maintenance of landscape plant material for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond. Garrett also explains his organic approach,

From the East Texas swamps and forests to the Edwards Plateau canyons and the Trans-Pecos mountains, Texas hosts a surprising number of native orchids. Their exquisite beauty endears them to everyone from wildflower lovers to professional botanists and conse

For gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such gardens can flourish when native plants grow in them. In this book, Judy Mielke, an expert on Southwestern gardening, offers the most comprehensive guide available to landscaping with native plants. Writing simply enough for beginning gardeners, while also providing ample information for landscape professionals, she presents over three hundred

Since its first publication in 1986, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home

Since its first publication in 1986, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home

This book is a complete guide to perennial gardening in Texas and similar regions of eastern New Mexico, Oklahom

Lakewold was the private garden of