Product Description: This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. This is not an attempt at a comprehensive "Bible" of gardening information, but a complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowners likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden...read more

Product Description: This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant...read more

Product Description: With its unique blend of grasses and sturdy perennials, the North American prairie is one of the world’s richest and most beautiful biotopes. It’s also one of the most endangered―only a tiny fraction remains of the millions of pristine acres that once stretched from horizon to horizon...read more

Product Description: Aimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish.  Gardening with native plants is an ever-more popular practice—and for good reason...read more

A practical field guide to gardening with native Michigan plants explains how to create an attractive, low-maintenance landscape that takes into consideration Michigan's harsher climate, featuring an extensive section of plant profiles covering more than six hundred native trees, shrubs, flowering plants, vines, grasses, ferns, and evergreens, along with helpful cultivation and care instructions. Original.