Step-By-Step Shade Gardens

by Patricia A. Taylor

Book Overview

Combines up-to-date information with traditional advice on shade gardening, featuring photographs and illustrations that demonstrate planting and maintenance techniques and providing an encyclopedia... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696206617
• ISBN13: 9780696206610
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Meredith Corporation
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent guide to a successful Shade Garden

This book is an excellent resource to have when establishing a shade garden. It covers preparation of your gardening area through design, color, and shapes and texture. This guide covers several examples where one can use a shade garden. Some examples would be in the city, passage in a wooded area, or established to attract birds. Managing your new garden is illustarted for more healthy plants. One can start growing their own plants allowing them to add a touch of their favorite plants to different locations of their landscape with this simple guide to growing and propagating plants. Once you have started a beautiful garden this guide will help to aid you in maintaining what you have worked to establish. This Step-By-Step to Shade Gardening also contains an Encyclopedia which covers all the information you need on the plants to use. The encyclopedia covers common and scientific names, description, flower colors, time of season it will likely bloom, height you can expect a healthy plant to grow, what zones it grows best in, and the conditions best to establish for your plants to thrive. This is an excellent and well illustarted guide to creating a shade garden which your neighbors will admire and you will love to spend some time.