Books

Dirr’s Encyclopedia a New Industry Standard

November 29, 2011 5 comments
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***Timber Press is holding a giveaway for the new Dirr book! Details below.*** The internet has removed the need for so many types of book. Between the online nursery descriptions and search engine image searches, you can find basic information on many types of plant, and that’s often good enough. However, things become tricky when [...]

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The Visitor’s Guide to American Gardens

November 21, 2011 43 comments
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If your winter “gardening” is usually comprised of bulb and perennial catalogs, highlighters, and very little in the way of actual outdoor gardening, then I have a new tool to make your winter plotting that much more exciting. Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp has written The Visitor’s Guide to American Gardens, which is a beautifully-organized and [...]

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Kindle Awesome: Free Gardening Books for Amazon Prime Members

November 8, 2011 0 comments
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I was delighted to read about Amazon’s new Kindle lending library for Prime members, where we can choose from 5,300 books to borrow and read on our Kindle. While the list of people who have both a Kindle and an Amazon Prime account may be small, if you’re on that list (like me!) I think you’ll [...]

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50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants

August 24, 2011 20 comments
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EDIT: Patrick is the winner of the giveaway! You all remember my excitement recently to have discovered this lovely new book from Timber Press. Ruth Rogers Clausen shows off 50 top picks for deer-resistant gardens, and gives about two pages of in-depth information about how to design with each plant, what other plants look best [...]

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Deer Resistant Gardening Made Easy: a Book Review

July 12, 2011 4 comments
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Ruth Rogers Clausen, author of 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants, has some straightforward advice for dealing with deer, and selecting beautiful plants that will go well together in deer country. I share some of her advice for dealing with deer over at the Christian Science Monitor, and give an in-depth review of her new book there [...]

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Wicked Bugs: Video Interview with Amy Stewart

June 2, 2011 2 comments
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I am adoring Wicked Bugs, the latest from author Amy Stewart. She’s back with more deliciously morbid musings, this time about the insects, spiders, and squirmy things that have us so outnumbered that for each one of us, there are two hundred million of them. Eeep! While Amy’s a huge fan of bugs, she didn’t [...]

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Understanding Garden Design book – Interview on Kirkus Reviews

May 26, 2011 0 comments
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…in which I tease Amy Stewart about her garden, and get to say “hell” on Kirkus Reviews. I am sure I can die happy now. Read it here: Garden Rant: A Conversation about ‘Understanding Garden Design’

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Top Landscape Plants (Excerpts from Experts)

April 26, 2011 30 comments
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When the Garden Designers Roundtable chose Top Landscape Plants as this month’s topic, I thought to myself, “Hey, no problem, I can write that in my sleep.” I mean, enthusing about plants is kind of my thing, you know? But given that this is book excerpt week here at North Coast Gardening, I thought it’d [...]

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Book Excerpt: Energy-Wise Landscape Design

April 22, 2011 0 comments
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Energy-Wise Landscape Design should be a required read for anyone going into the landscaping field. In this book, Sue Reed outlines a number of steps you can take to green your landscape. Some steps are easy and can be done right away; others take more time, energy, thought or care. When I reviewed this book [...]

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Book Excerpt: Garden Rules – The Snappy Synopsis for the Modern Gardener

April 21, 2011 18 comments
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***Giveaway! Win a copy of Garden Rules by commenting below. *** Holly is the winner – congrats! Jayme Jenkins and Billie Brownell dish the dirt to new gardeners in their book, Garden Rules. I remember being a new gardener and feeling like I’d stepped into a new world, complete with a whole new language as [...]

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