Product Description: As anyone familiar with city life knows very well, the constant demands of career, family, and social obligations can take their toll. For years, New Yorkers have fled to the East End of Long Island, whose peaceful North Fork has quietly drawn those seeking a laid-back, low-key lifestyle and the rustic splendor of its villages, bays, farms, vineyards, and pastoral wooded landscape...read more

An updated guide to the art of oceanside gardening offers photographs of gardens by the sea as well as advice on planning, planting, and caring for gardens in maritime conditions, including such challenges as erosion and amending sandy soil. Architects & Designers Book Service.

Provides a colorful overview of the full range of antique and modern roses, including the latest hybrids, along with authoritative horticultural advice on cultivation and care.

Product Description: Beautiful close-up photography highlights an authoritative guide to one of the world's most popular spring flowers, capturing the rich variety of daffodils available, as well as cultivation advice, detailed tips on forcing daffodils inside, and more.

A visual study of a home garden throughout the seasons of the year provides hands-on advice to seasonal plant, color, and texture combinations; offering additional historical information. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: One of the most popular of all spring-flowering bulbs, the tulip has a history that is as colourful as the flower itself. In the 1600s, in the heyday of tulipomania, these blooms were rare, very expensive and considered status symbols by European aristocrats...read more

Product Description: Named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, the iris has been called the "poor man's orchid" because it is exotic yet low maintenance, inexpensive and can be grown in the back garden. The seductive beauty of this flamboyant perennial has made the iris second in popularity in the US and Great Britain only to the rose...read more

A handsomely illustrated guide to creating a beautiful garden space covers the essentials of garden architecture, including fences, gates, walls, and outbuildings, while offering readers valuable advice on growing every imaginable variety of garden plant. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Available for the first time in paperback, this comprehensive guide is the only complete book available on the cultivation of plants for the creation of potpourri. James tells how to grow over 100 perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, and shrubs that are specifically appropriate for use in potpourri...read more

Offers advice on flower arrangements, forcing bulbs, and drying flowers, recommends the most popular varieties of flowers for cutting, and includes bloom sequence charts

A brightly illustrated guide to growing more than eighty different types of bulbs provides step-by-step instructions on soil preparation, seasonal plantings, cultivation, indoor and outdoor plants, landscaping suggestions, and more.