Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
Here's a fun solution for the adventurous gardener: try self-sown annuals. Now before you get out the needle and thread, think for a minute about what the word annual means in the plant world. An annual plant is one that lives for only one ... [... 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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Home Landscaping Northeast Region: Including Southeast ...
Best Landscaping Book I've Found: This is a wonderful book. I constantly use it as a reference and keep meaning to bring it with me when I go to the nursery. (Otherwise I come home with plants like Larkspur, which look beautiful now, but might not make [... more]
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Great Trains of America
From Amazon.com: An incredible resource for railroad and history buffs, Great Trains of America Box Set looks at historic trains and railroads to understand the emergence of railroads as a binding force in American history. With the help of interviews [... more]
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Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Take Dirr's with you when you go to buy trees: This book is the standard for hardy trees and shrubs. It is a pictoral encyclopedia of trees that are hardy and should thrive in the northern half of the USA. This book is well-designed and organized--the [... more]
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Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Home Landscaping: Secrets for ...
Excellent: This is an excellent book for anyone with a yard or garden. The book starts out explaining basic design principles, helping you decide where to place plants. Size, shape, balance & lighting conditions are also discussed here. Next are [... more]
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Fall Color and Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the More ...
Lovely, easy to use basic guide: I've been frustrated for a while now in trying to find a good tree identification guide. I'm a birder, I do know how to use field guides! --but all the tree guides I've tried had one photograph, or one line drawing, which [... more]
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 7 - Viburnum
There's a Viburnum for every garden. Many offer sweetly scented flowers, colorful berries and fall color. What more can you want from a shrub? There's a Viburnum for every garden from USDA zones 3 to 9. Some are evergreen or partially so, but ... [... more]
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Nature's Fall Garden
Fall color in central New York State with photographs and related links. I have just put aside the article I was writing for next month and instead am doing this one. The catalyst is the world now around me, in its fantastic Blue Maid and Blue ... [... more]
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Fall Garden Chores
Fall garden chores. Plants new trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables and even lawns. Divide perennials, plant trees for autumn color and more! If you've always wanted to see the fall color in New England, do the next best thing and plant your own ... [... more]
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Weatherman, Weatherman! Look at my Tree!
Despite popular belief, trees do not foretell future weather. They record the past. Many folks believe that plants are good weather prognosticators. They point to various signs such as early (or late) fall color or heavy (or light) flowering and ... [... more]
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Fall Again
The beauty of a northeast fall and the necessary over-wintering of plants We were approaching the height of fall color and I despaired of seeing it in all its splendor. A week of dark, gloomy rain and the leaves were coming down. Were we about to ... [... more]
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