The Ultimate Garden Planning Guide
Be sure your garden has the proper pH (acid-alkaline balance) and fertility. Most county cooperative extension services provide soil testing. Or you can buy a soil-testing kit at a local garden center for about $12. It will tell you if your soil ... [... more]
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Classic Garden Plans
 For any gardener who is unsure of what to grow or how to put plants together in coherent planting schemes, this book provides answers. Many of the garden plans and plantings included are simplified versions of those created by great gardeners such as ... [... more]
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Grow Your Own Pizza: Gardening Plans and Recipes for Kids
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Downspout Garden
Downspouts have a knack for keeping their surroundings moist for much of the year. This problem-solving garden plan was designed with plants that can thrive in moist soils, including low, wet spots in your yard. Tall joe-pye weed grabs attention ... [... more]
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Spring Rock Garden
This garden plan calls for low-lying, colorful plants with a mixture of blooming dates to last you the whole year through -- bergenia, primrose, iris, snow-in-summer, Icelandic poppy, Delta and Nonstop pansies -- ranging in colors of blue, pink, ... [... more]
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Side Garden
This garden plan transforms the short walk from front yard to back into a stroll through a colorful shade garden. It brings beauty to the strip of ground between the side of a house and the property line -- an area that is often drab and ... [... more]
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Large Summer Sunny Border
Start with a large sunny border and get ready to have some fun with color. This garden plan consists of an arrangement of several perennials and annuals. The colors vary from grays and whites to pinks, yellows, reds, lavender, and blue. Lounge in ... [... more]
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Spring Shade Border
It only takes six different types of plants and a shady border to create this springtime garden plan. Start by planting the bleeding hearts and then add the yellow, daisy-like flowers, the leopardsbane, to give the garden some height. Taper the ... [... more]
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Corner Of Shrubs
Trees and shrubs ("woody" plants) are the four-seasons backbone of the landscape. This garden displays small shrubs among three 'Royalty' crabapple trees. The crabapples have much to offer: crimson flowers in spring, tiny ornamental fruits in .. ... [... more]
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Book of Garden Plans
Good design is the key to a successful garden, but designing a garden can be an overwhelming undertaking. The Book of Garden Plans changes all that by gathering together in one place 150 of the best designs for gardens of almost every imaginable type. ... [... more]
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Classic Garden Plans
For any gardener who is unsure of what to grow or how to put plants together in coherent planting schemes, this book provides answers. Many of the garden plans and plantings included are simplified versions of those created by great gardeners such as ... [... more]
$41.35
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Garden Planning (RHS Encyclopedia of Practical Gardening)
Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader ... [... more]
$18.00
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