Qualifiers For Quagmires: Landscape Plants For Wet Sites
When landscaping sites with poor drainage, it is advisable to start with plants that are tolerant of those conditions. Plants native to wet bottomland areas often thrive under these conditions. When selecting and planting trees and shrubs for ... [... more]
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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]
$55.00
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Residential Landscape Design
Landscape design is the art of developing property for its greatest use and enjoyment. Effective landscape design is also a science because it involves understanding the environment around your home and selecting ... [... more]
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Controlling Sedges In Landscape Plantings
Sedges are easily distinguished from grasses by their leafy shoots that are triangular in cross section. In contrast, shoots of grasses are flat or round in cross section. Distinguishing between grasses and sedges is ... [... more]
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Directory
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Postemeregence, Non-Selective Herbicides For Landscapes ...
Scythe (pelargonic acid, Mycogen Corp.) is also a postemergence, contact herbicide that controls small seedling weeds but only injures larger annual weeds and perennials. In contrast to Reward, Scythe works better in warm (> 80 oF) than cool ... [... more]
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Deer Problems In The Landscape
Deer are nocturnal, selective feeders. Factors that affect their feeding behavior include: population, weather, food availability/attraction, and distance from cover. They are browsers, often consuming their total food intake, in many different ... [... more]
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Weed Control In Flower Beds
Most weeds found in color beds have one of three life cycles: summer annuals, winter annuals, and perennials. The weed's life cycle provides information on timing of germination and method of reproduction. Summer ... [... more]
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Designing With Perennials
"The award-winning gardening author and perennials expert addresses plant selection, use and placement, color and foliage effects, and ground cover options."-Library Journal. "Offering sound guidelines on siting and sample garden plans... ... [... more]
$40.00
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Drawing the Landscape, 2nd Edition
Drawing the Landscape offers the tools to approach drawing as a means to a better understanding of the natural and built environment. This Second Edition is complete with a brand new color section and a section on drawing the human figure, and contains ... [... more]
$44.95
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The Experience of Landscape
This book stresses a theoretical approach to landscape aesthetics, including habitat theory and prospect-refuge theory, based on an analysis of research literature and experience in a wide area of art and science. This edition covers recent developments ... [... more]
$70.00
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Golf Course Architecture: Design, Construction & Restoration
Described as "the modern bible of golf architecture," this text distills Dr. Hurdzan's 30 years of knowledge and experience into one source. Beautifully illustrated with 326 color photographs, and 80 course maps and drawings, it chronicles all ... [... more]
$85.00
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