Making a Garden: Reliable Techniques, Outstanding Plants, and Honest Advice - Hardcover

Rita Buchanan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039589753X ISBN 13: 9780395897539

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998

Synopsis

An inspiring guide offers encouraging words for growing herbs, fragrant plants, cut flowers, bulbs, and ground covers and includes ways to overcome some of the more challenging feats, such as planting on a hillside or under a tree.

About this title

About the Author:

Rita Buchanan is the coeditor and co-author of TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO GARDENING as well as many other books. A botanist, horticulturist, and passionate gardener and designer, she turned a featureless cow pasture into a glorious garden landscape surrounding her home. She resides in Connecticut.

From Publishers Weekly:

"There is no such thing as an ex-gardener," Buchanan observes. "It's a lifelong passion." With this straightforward, comprehensive guide covering all the basics of soil preparation, plant siting and planting, the horticulture writer (Plants for Winter Beauty) means to ignite that passion. The first step before actually getting your hands dirty, she suggests, is photographing the existing area and scouting out local plants and resources. Of real value are Buchanan's unique approaches to perennial division (which she argues is a practical approach to economically expand the garden) followed by comprehensive lists of perennials classed according to root structure and growth patterns. She discusses ground cover?too often ignored in garden literature; offers extensive suggestions for what to plant and where; and tackles the challenges of planting near trees and on slopes. Other chapters cover bulb gardening, flowers for hot summers, plants for winter interest, herbs, cutting gardens and fragrant plants. Although Buchanan could have developed her earlier chapters more fully (only brief explanations are given for each step of planning the garden), her practical book offers some fresh approaches for both the novice and the experienced gardener. Illustrations by Steve Buchanan, the author's husband.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 039589753X
• ISBN 13: 9780395897539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Steve Buchanan