American Garden Museum
Read about my garden being included in the American Garden Museum. You can also learn how to submit your garden for inclusion. Home » Plants & Animals » Tropical Plants » American Garden Museum Here it is already the end of November. [... more]
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Starr Ockenga
Starr Ockenga won national acclaim for her first book on gardens, Earth on Her Hands: The Amerian Woman in Her Garden, which received an American Horticultural Society Book Award for 1999. She continued to document American gardens with Eden on ... [... more]
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Hydrangeas for American Gardens CD: A Photographic Essay ...
 For Horticulturalists Only: Full of beautiful pictures and containing much helpful information, one would think that this book is the perfect resource for home gardening enthusiasts and hydrangea lovers. However, the most important information for [... more]
CDN$35.07
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Hydrangeas for American Gardens
For Horticulturalists Only: Full of beautiful pictures and containing much helpful information, one would think that this book is the perfect resource for home gardening enthusiasts and hydrangea lovers. However, the most important information for [... more]
CDN$33.95
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Smith and Hawken: 100 English Roses for the American Garden
From Amazon.com: The rose has always been a popular flower; ancient Romans, Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese cultivated rose gardens and used the blooms in festivals and funerals. Yet the roses we grow today have generally been in existence for less than a [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom ...
Amazing piece of research, well presented: This is an amazing piece of research and one of the few books whose appendices are a "must read". The bok is about American ornamental plant history - the story of garden plants from their introduction, [... more]
CDN$45.95
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Smith and Hawken: 100 Old Roses for the American Garden
From Amazon.com: While gardeners often start out with hybrid tea roses, they most often end up growing the healthier and supremely fragrant old roses. Who can resist their crumpled petals in soft watercolor shades and their penetrating fragrance of baby [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Ferns for American Gardens
ferns for everyone: I love ferns and this is a great book full of usful info on where the plant comes from and how to grow them. The intro sections of the ferns are great, giving general info on the genus. The Photos are just fantastic and not just few [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Plant Swap...circa 1730
Plant exchanges have long been an important part of American gardening history. Here, two famous 18th century plantsmen share their stories. Our American garden history is filled with stories of adventure and the discovery of specimens native ... [... more]
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Jardins Communicants
Americans who write about gardening often write articles in which they speculate about whether or not a truly American style of garden will arise. In fact, a truly American style of garden has existed for over a century. Early American gardens ... [... more]
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Women, Keepers of the Garden
Though men have designed great gardens, the home grounds and traditions have been kept by the women. Did you ever stop to think about how American gardens got that way? Many of the publicly renowned gardens in this world are associated with male ... [... more]
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Campanulas: A Book Review
Campanulas have long brightened American gardens. Most don't realize they are not native to North America. Peter Lewis and Margaret Lynch. Campanulas A Gardener's Guide. Timber Press, 1998. This book makes me long for an unlimited sized garden ... [... more]
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