Planting Under Trees - Part 11
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 11 - The West Border This week, in this series about planting under mature deciduous trees, we're moving across the garden to the West Border. This is one of the oldest parts of my garden, the ... [... more]
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The Hillier Gardener's Guide to Trees and Shrubs
 Superb! Better than Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: Every connoisseur of ornamental trees & shrubs will love this book. Containing more than 3,000 crisp, very detailed color photos, including the most awesome Cedar of Lebanon photo one can imagine, it [... more]
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The Pruning Book
From Amazon.com: It is unlikely that the basics of pruning have ever before been assembled so thoroughly or comprehensively than in Lee Reich's The Pruning Book. With clear prose and generous diagrams and photographs, he takes the angst out of pruning [... more]
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Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design To Heat And Cool ...
Thorough exploration of one type of passive solar system: "The Passive Solar House" explains in detail a system that the author patented (patents since expired) for a passive design using a concrete slab for thermal mass. There are detailed [... more]
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Economic Botany: Plants in our World
Comprehensive: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the botany of economically important plants. Approximately half the book is devoted to food plants, with separate chapters for temperate fruits, tropical fruits, grains, legumes, and vegetables. [... more]
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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
Prayers for Pilgrims.: Annie Dillard's collection of twenty-four poems, TICKETS FOR A PRAYER WHEEL was first published in 1974, the same year Dillard published her Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-known work, PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. In the thirty years [... more]
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Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice-Age ...
Author: Hazel R. Delcourt Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 333.750974 EAN: 9780939923892 ISBN: 0939923890 Number Of Pages: 244 Publication Date: 2005-01-28 [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 8
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - Mixed Planting, From the Begining In this series of articles about planting in the dry, rooty conditions under mature deciduous trees, I've told you about beds and borders that have been in place ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 4
Last week, in this series devoted to planting in that inhospitable environment under mature deciduous trees, I talked about some tough groundcovers that grow well with little effort on your part. But, what if you want more than that? In parts of ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 14
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 14 - The New Planting This week marks the last article in this series about planting under mature deciduous trees. We've talked about a lot of plants that will grow in competition with tree roots ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 5
For those of you just joining this series, it's about planting in that inhospitable soil directly under mature deciduous trees. In previous parts of the series, I've shared my methods of dealing with the soil and some tough no-coddling ... [... more]
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Form in the Garden
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, winter is the perfect time to take a really good, dispassionate look at our gardens. What we see may not thrill us. With no flowers to distract us and all the deciduous trees and shrubs bare, it's ... [... more]
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