| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Breaking Ground; True Confessions of a Leisurely Gardener; Just Say no to Unpleasant Tasks; Give me Five ... or Ten; Garden Smarter; Getting Personal in the Garden; The Grand Tourist; Chapter 2: Autumn; A Time of Renewal; September Separates the Optimists; Autumn Joys; Keep your Eyes on the Groundcovers; Mixing it up in the Border; When the tough Get Going; Bulbs Predict a Glorious Spring; Good Things Come in Small Bulbs; The Great Cover-up; Love those Loropetalums; Lighten up the Shade. |
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Splendor in the GrassesShrubbing it up; A Kick out of Cleaning up; Chapter 3: Winter; Leave the Leaves; Some Gifts Cannot be Wrapped; Divide and Expand; A Twisted Tale of Vines; Sometimes the News is Good; Them Bones, Them Bones so; Follies in the Foundation; Variations on Variegation; A Camellia is a Camellia is a Camellia; An Epiphany in Every Seed; It's Dangerous Out there in the Garden; To Prune or not to Prune; Chapter 4: Spring; It's Spring ... and Time to Shop; If you Plant them, they will Bloom; The Hydrangea Puzzlement; Turning Yard Work into Garden Joy; Reba and me in the Garden. |
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Put the Xip into XeriscapingConsider the Lilies; The Dazzle of Daylilies; A Love-Hate Relationship with Iris; Gardening with the Enemy; I'll Never be a Bedder; Turf Battles; The Show Goes on; The Siren Sound of Water; Chapter 5: Summer; Summer Shrubs on the Shy Side; A Rule of Green Thumb: Prune after Bloom; Tomatoes are for Everyone, Almost; Tropical Pizzazz; A Lust for Lantanas; Mints Get a Bad Rap; Just Give me a Fig Tree and a Vine; Put it in a Pot; More, Gotta have More; A Wandering Mind Wants to Grow; Herbs with Allure; Save me a Salvia; Secret to Success: Succulents. |
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Crepe or Crape? I'll Take BothWeed War; Something that Bugs me; Chapter 6: Winnowing; Walking in a Woodland of One's Own; Good Friends, Garden Differences; Laurie's Garden: A Work in Progress; Other People's Gardens; Passalong Some Friendship; Who's in the Habitat?; Say Goodbye to Garden Guilt; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Written conversationally and embroidered with gentle wit, Earthly Delights is essential for the gardener who;s desperate to create the garden they've always dreamed about--without the endless hassles and expense that undermines so many gardening efforts. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 217) and index. |
| Subject |
Gardening.
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Gardening -- Calendars.
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Gardening -- History.
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GARDENING -- Climatic -- Temperate.
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GARDENING -- Flowers -- General.
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GARDENING -- Ornamental Plants.
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Gardening. (OCoLC)fst00937852
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rochester, Margot. Earthly Delights : Gardening by the Seasons the Easy Way. Lanham : Taylor Trade Publishing, ©2004 9781589790780 |
| ISBN |
1299652654 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299652651 (electronic bk.) |
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9781461625858 (electronic bk.) |
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1461625858 (electronic bk.) |
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