Plant Hardiness
Are you wondering which plants need special winter care? Which can survive the rigors of winter in your pond? Here is a place to start your research. Hardiness depends on the severity of the winter and the specific variety of the plant. For ... [... more]
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Photographic Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Form and ...
 Extremely Thorough: If you are a landscape architect or simply have a great interest in plant materials in general, Michael A. Dirr has composed a book of vast information. Sticking to the zones of North America, Dirr goes into scientific description of [... more]
CDN$22.88
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Projects For Small Gardens: 56 Projects on Foldout Pages ...
Complete info about a wide range of small garden projects: This cleverly designed book provides a short description of each project (sometimes including a tidbit about the idea's pedigree), a full page (i.e., about 6.5" x 11") color photo, and [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the ...
To Live and Let Live: It is only within the last decade that most scientists have accepted that the Earth's geology and biology are both shaped by celestial events, as well as tectonic ones. Cockell has worked in both the Arctic and the Antarctic to [... more]
CDN$52.95
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Planting Design
A classic on Planting Design: "Plants have been a part of our earth for a very long time and are a source of oxygen, food, fuel and building materials for the benefit of humanity. Besides these functional uses they also add much to the aesthetic [... more]
CDN$65.99
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Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on Their ...
From Amazon.com: Allan Armitage has a well-deserved reputation for serving up solid information with precision and humor. Now based in Georgia, Armitage began his gardening career in Montreal. Thus, he knows a lot about what happens to plants in both [... more]
CDN$70.03
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Native Trees Shrubs, and Vines for Urban and Rural ...
Great for East of the Rockies: This is a very useful book for those living in the appropriate area. The book contains information on native trees and shrubs in Eastern and Central United States. Native trees and shrubs found west of the Rockies are NOT [... more]
CDN$221.99
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October Plant Gallery
Plants of seasonal interest in October - photos, descriptions, hardiness and cultivation information. You could be forgiven for deducing from this month's selection that there are few flowers in the garden. However, this is not the case, it is ... [... more]
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Tender Spots
Judging whether a plant is hardy enough to survive in your garden is a tricky business. Of course, hardiness zones can act as a rough guide, but often there maybe many individual micro-climates contained within one garden. You can often find ... [... more]
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Another DIFFERENT Winter!
How weather affects dormancy and hardiness of garden plants. I've just about decided that I don't know where I live anymore. This looks like my house and my neighborhood, but the winters have seemed to be from other places recently. The winter of ... [... more]
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But it's rated for my zone. . . .
Cold hardiness isn't everything. What a climate zone rating can and can't tell you. At the back of my property is a large stand of black bamboo (phyllostachys nigra) which I planted in an attempt to hide an apartment complex which sprouted, most ... [... more]
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THE FROST HAS ARRIVED
After a mild December and an unusually warm period over Christmas, winter has arrived with a vengeance. Temperatures dropped to - 4° C on the night of January 3rd which is most unusual for these parts. At least it will test the hardiness of the ... [... more]
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