Download or read book Growing the Midwest Garden written by Edward Lyon and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Lyons Garden written by D. M. Foley and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Greenhall, a successful nature photographer, searching for her biological parents. Finding out she was adopted was no surprise since she didn't look like either of her adoptive parents. After tragedy strikes though, her search for her biological parents becomes more pressing. A new assignment puts her search on hold. Strange incidents while on assignment lead to even stranger revelations. The revelations lead her on a journey towards her family and a new romance. While some assignments in the past have been dangerous, she wonders if she will survive this one at all. One thing is for sure, her world will never be the same.
Download or read book Desert Gardens written by Gary Lyons and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 18 unique and rarely photographed private and public gardens between Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Download or read book Family Ties written by D. M. Foley and published by Lyons Garden. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jessica Greenhall accepts the photography assignment on Gardiners Island, she doesn't realize her search for her biological family will ultimately take center stage. The hostility projected toward her by those living on the island leaves her wanting to finish her job and leave as quickly as possible.The clues lead her to discover who she is, and the question arises, who wants her gone? Her only solace is her budding relationship with the writer assigned to the island with her, Timothy Sullivan.Jessica wants to know the truth, however, the truth changes her life forever.
Download or read book Erasing Secrets written by D. M. Foley and published by Lyons Garden. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of the previously released Erasing Secrets: The Lyons Garden Book Two. The author's independent publishing company has extensively re-edited and reformatted it. Like all families, the Gardiners have secrets. Someone on the island knows all the secrets and will kill to reveal them. Jimmy Driscoll, head of security on the island, has a difficult job keeping everyone safe while keeping his past hidden from others. Jessica Greenhall and her siblings have been targeted. As long as they are off the island, they seem safe. When they return to the island for the holidays, they realize how serious things have become. It's a relentless race against the unknown, a desperate scramble to unravel the mystery of their tormentor. As a series of accidents unfold, each one more tragic than the last, they're driven to the brink of desperation, hungering for answers.
Download or read book Armchair Book of Gardens written by Jane Billinghurst and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armchair Book of Gardens is a collection of indiviual essays focused on understanding gardens in a different light/perspective. The book concentrates on the emotional, social, spiritual, and politicial aspects of the garden.
Download or read book Food Lovers Garden written by Angelo M. Pellegrini and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: —plucked fresh from the garden—become the soul of cookery. Using his own experience as a guide, Pellegrini tells you how to plan your own garden, when to plant what, how to determine your needs, how to nurture and harvest what you have grown, and how best to use the treasures you will reap. He not only gives you heart to break the soil and sow your own first seeds, but shows you how to raise almost anything, from the lowly and wonderful bean to the exotic artichoke and mysterious cardoon. This is a book that could only have been written by a man with a love of the soil and an instinct for the good life. Angelo Pellegrini’s joy in gardening is so contagious that his exuberant book is bound to ensnare you—that is, if you are a serious cook. It is interlaced with memories of sensuous moments, snatches of mouth-watering recipes, and unabashed descriptions of the rewards of building a garden in limited space and tending it, season after season, for the pleasure of the table.
Download or read book The Backyard Gardener written by Kelly Orzel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and simple guide to edible gardening The “garden to table” movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard Gardener is a comprehensive handbook that will help get them started. Kelly Orzel covers everything from soil selection to growing and harvesting. Sidebars such as “garden center survival tips” offer useful advice to help readers build their confidence and know-how. This guide also features photographs of beautiful plant bed designs, propagation techniques, and much more.
Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Well Tempered Garden written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless gardening classic by Christopher Lloyd, one of Britain's most highly respected plantsmen, updated for the 21st century. With a new foreword by Anna Pavord. This is a classic work by a gardener who combines a passionate love of his subject with a critical intelligence and a good helping of wit. THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is packed with the sort of information keen gardeners crave - from planting, weeding and the pleasures of propagation to annuals, water lilies and vegetables. Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published, THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is as fresh, enlightening and necessary for gardeners in the 21st century as it was when it first appeared more than 40 years ago.
Download or read book Patios and Gardens of Mexico written by Patricia W. O'Gorman and published by Architectural Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An arched stone gate, a millstone path, a blue-and-white tiled pool with a quiet fountain, brilliant marigolds, stone sculptures of playful angels, and stately lions—the Mexican garden is a serene oasis that displays a diversity and ingenuity that is truly astonishing. Mexico’s temperate climate, conducive to outdoor living, combined with its Indian and Spanish heritage have resulted in a unique style of design and architecture. Through more than four hundred magnificent photographs and detailed text, Patios and Gardens of Mexico displays the amazing sense of variety and originality characteristic of the Mexican garden.
Download or read book Men and Gardens written by Nan Fairbrother and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful tour through gardens and garden writing of the past.
Download or read book Pawns written by D M Foley and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of this book. The author's independent publishing company has reformatted, done some minor edits, and changed the cover for this book. Richard Gardiner Jr. thinks he knows who has been killing off his family members. He devises a plan with his sister Jessica, his brother-in-law to be Timothy, and his cousin Jimmy. They hope to flush out the killer and catch him. The killer has other plans. It becomes a game of chess moves between the killer and the Gardiner family. Who will execute their plans first and end in a checkmate?
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Gardening written by Anthony Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As aptly categorized in the foreword: "This is gardening at ground level, history with (you might say) dirty fingernails." The late son of the Huxley dynasty of scientists chronicles the derived-from-agriculture gardening techniques and implements invented and used across cultures and the centuries (everything but power mowers it seems). Huxley also considers more recent trends: greater numbers of leisure gardeners optimizing smaller lots, growing from seed, and organic gardening. Includes numerous bandw illustrations. Originally published by Paddington Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Beast in the Garden A Modern Parable of Man and Nature written by David Baron and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true tale of an edenic Rocky Mountain town and what transpired when a predatory species returned to its ancestral home. When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller Jaws, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. A parable for our times, The Beast in the Garden is a scientific detective story and a real-life drama, a tragic tale of the struggle between two highly evolved predators: man and beast.
Download or read book Gardening with Native Plants of the South written by Sally Wasowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast “new” palette of plant materials—native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore easier to grow and maintain, than most of the imported plants that populate traditional landscapes. In this book, the authors offer an exciting vision of the many possibilities and advantages of “going native.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 gorgeous color photographs, this book is both an introduction to more than 200 of the most familiar and easiest-to-find native plants of the South and a basic primer on how to use them effectively.
Download or read book The Happiness List written by Annie Lyons and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A must-read of the summer!’ Jenny Oliver, bestselling author of The Summer House by the Sea 'Happy, hopeful and joyously life-affirming. Exactly the book we need right now.' Cathy Bramley Life is about to change forever...
