Product Description: A definitive guide to successful planting, including small garden trees, conifers, foliage plants, camellias, heathers and rhododendrons, with detailed botanical description of each species and its characteristics.

For every gardener desiring to add apples, pears, cherries, and other tree fruit to their landscape here are hints and solid information from a professional horticulturist and experienced fruit grower. The Backyard Orchardist includes help on selecting the best fruit trees and information about each stage of growth and development, along with tips on harvest and storage of the fruit. Those with limited space will learn about growing dwarf fruit trees in containers. Appendices include a fruit-growers monthly calendar, a trouble-shooting guide for reviving ailing trees, and a resource list of nurseries selling fruit trees.

Product Description: “The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it,” Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises. “Put on your thinking-cap, study into the matter, and do not jump in the dark. A slow start is much better than a poor start...read more

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An updated edition of the author's definitive illustrated guide to pruning is a must-have for gardeners that is organized around common types of plants such as evergreen and deciduous shrubs, bamboos and tea roses, rhododendrons, camellia wisteria and other vines, and tree species from dogwoods to weeping cherries. Original.

Product Description: Grow it! Find the best types for your garden! Use it! Here are recipes for drinks, food, beauty products, household products, insect repellents, and more. Don't waste the fruit, peels, or even the blossoms. Citrus is one of the world's most useful herbs...read more

Product Description: This practical guide includes an introduction on how to use conifers in the garden as well as a plant catalog and a grower's guide.