Gardening in the shade
Book - 2004
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Horticulture Books
2004.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- 142 p. : ill. (mostly col.)
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781558707207
- Introduction: The pleasures and challenges of shade gardening
- Chapter 1. General Techniques
- Takinc to the Woods: A resourceful gardener sets out to plant beneath big trees
- Within the Woodland: The art and science of growing wildflowers in the shade
- Coping with Dry Shade: The right plants can green up even the most inhospitable corner
- Chapter 2. General Design
- The Many Shades of Sunlight: How patterns of light and shadow shape a garden
- Finding Inspiration in Nature: Basic design principles to get you started
- A Way Through the Woods: Thoughts on designing a sylvan path
- Chapter 3. Plants for Shade
- Perennials
- From the Woodlands of Asia
- The Soaring Cimicifugas
- Ferns of a Different Cut
- The New Look of Coralbells
- Lady's Slippers for Everyone
- Japanese Anemones for Late Summer
- Epimedium Adventures
- Carpets of Blue Phlox
- Charming, Durable Fringed Bleeding Heart
- Ring in Bellwort
- Sharp Sedges
- Trees and Shrubs
- Magnificent Mahonias
- A Fancy for Fuchsias
- Mountain Laurel Renaissance
- Late-Blooming Eucryphia Xnymansensis
- Showy Skimmia Japonica
- Radiant Japanese Spicebush
- In Praise of Rhododendron 'Ken Janeck'
- Bulbs, Corms, Tubers
- Spring into Snowdrops
- Surprising Chinese Lycoris
- The Greater Pleasures of Lesser Celandines
- Treasured Trilliums
- Cardiocrinum, King of the Lilies
- Ivy-Leaved Cyclamen
- Chapter 4. Step-by-Step Projects for Shade Gardeners
- Layering a Rhododendron
- Growing Bloodroot from Seed
- Dividing a Fern
- Training a Fuchsia Standard
- Pruning a Large Tree Limb
- Suppliers
- Index