Ornamental Grasses for the Garden
Ornamental grasses add height and beauty to any landscape. Plus, their versatility and all-season interest makes them attractive additions to your garden. Learn about the different varieties of ornamental grasses and how to care for them in your ... [... more]
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Gardening with Grasses
 Very disappointing...: I must say, I am astonished that this book has recieved the positive reviews that it has. I bought this book with the intent of gaining knowledge in the area of designing with grasses. I read it from start to finish and found that [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, ...
From Amazon.com: Much has changed in the role and use of ornamental grasses over the past 100 years. Whereas turn-of-the-century gardeners had perhaps a dozen perennial grasses to choose from, today's gardeners have hundreds. Ornamental grasses now [... more]
CDN$70.17
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Agnes Chases 1st Bk Grasses 4e
a botany student's dream come true: As a first-year botany student, I was overwhelmed by the confusing tables and cryptic systems when trying to identify certain plants. I am so relieved to find a guide like Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses, where [... more]
CDN$19.01
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How to Identify Grasses: And Grasslike Plants
Excellent manual on morphology of these difficult groups.: As a former student of the late Dr. Harrington who taught me much about plant classification, I highly recommend this book. It is similar to his How to Identify Plants, but the diagrams are much [... more]
CDN$12.45
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Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design
Quality photography enhances this practical reference guide.: Grasses by freelance gardening writer Nancy J. Ondra is a beautiful and practical guide to raising ornamental grasses in one's garden. Filled cover to cover with excellent color photographs by [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Bamboos and Grasses
Great pics & ideas, but short on substance: This is a pretty little book with great pictures and some very usable ideas for how to get started with grasses and bamboos in the garden. (Started, here, is the operative word.) All the photos are well [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Dry Landscaping Ornamental Grasses
Dryland Ornamental Grasses can make a bare landscape look livable and natural. One of the places where I tend to disagree with the City of Albuquerque's brochure on "How to Xeriscape," is in the low - water plant area or zone. The City's [... more]
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A New CD-Rom on Grasses and Their Relatives
Many consider grasses, sedges, and their relatives to be the backbone of a perennial garden. The CD reviewed in this article features these plant species. Timber Press has introduced its first book on cd-rom rather than in the traditional book ... [... more]
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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Pennisetum
A true grass for part shade. The seventh in a series of articles on ornamental grasses for shade. As all of us who garden in shade know, shade itself is a variable commodity. Exact definitions are illusive and the fine gradations often differ ... [... more]
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Those Graceful Grasses
Hardy ornamental grasses make a strong statement in the landscape. These easy to grow plants can also give joy all year long. We northern gardeners always have a couple of forbidden fruits we lust after; those species we'd love to grow but they ... [... more]
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Ornamental Grasses For Shade - Carex, The Sedges
If you're looking for ornamental grasses for a shady garden, the sedges are hard to beat. This is the first in a series on ornamental grasses for shade Grasses have been of tremendous economic importance since the beginning of agriculture -- in ... [... more]
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