Gardening
Peony : the best varieties for your garden
David Michener
635.93344 /Michener
Gardening
In The Peony, David Michener and Carol Adelman help spread the joy of gardening with peonies. They share the history of this beloved plant, highlight the different types of peonies available, and profile the best 193 varieties of both. Growing information includes details on climate, soil, light, planting, and water needs. Helpful lists detail the best peony variety for specific needs and a resource listshares the best places to buy peonies and the best public gardens to see them in.
Success with succulents : choosing, growing, and caring for cactuses and other succulents
John Bagnasco
635.9525 /Bagnasco
Gardening
"Succulents and cacti are wildly popular in homes the world over, regardless of climate. Whether you're in the southwestern United States enjoying succulents on the patio, or raising a cactus garden on a windowsill in Minnesota, this book has something for you.Success with Succulents is filled with well-known and unusual species of cactuses and succulents, as well as tips and techniques for caring for these water-sipping species. Color combinations outdoors, growing indoors, ideal soil and soil mixes, watering, fertilizing, grooming, and propagation sections teach all kinds of things about caring for cactuses and succulents. The book also includes more than 100 plant profiles, with details that will help you succeed in gardening prickly and waxy varieties of all kinds."--
Not really an introduction to growing cactus and succulents as much as a home reference guide, this wonderful book can keep you entertained for hours learning about choosing and caring for both indoor and outdoor succulents -Beth
The little book of cacti and other succulents
Emma Sibley
635.93356 /Sibley
Gardening
The perfect plant pets, cacti and succulents are easy to care for and resilient to even the laziest of gardeners. With the right information, growing these plants is virtually foolproof. This must-have practical guide will help your indoor plants to grow and thrive.
If I had to buy only one new about Cactus this year. Comparing it to other Cactus and Succulent books in our collection, this book has more of the things I actually own in it. Nicely organized with nice compact entries that give the needs, care and quirks of each plant. Each entry has a large color photograph as well. -Beth
How not to kill your houseplant : survival tips for the horticulturally challenged
Veronica Peerless
635.965 /Peerless
Gardening
Do you have a "black thumb? Does just looking at plants cause them to wither and die? Peerless offers advice on keeping houseplants alive, even if you're horticulturally challenged. She shows you how to create an oasis of happy flourishing houseplants, and even give suggestions for different areas of your house.
The title is not just a hook – Peerless has written a great guide for those of us who for one reason or another have no luck with houseplants. Too much of the wrong kind of love or not enough of the right kind of light – there are many things that lead to plant demise. This book is helpful even If you’re not sure what type of plant you have. It begins with close to 200 plant thumbnails to help you figure out what plant you're dealing with. -Beth
Happy houseplants : 30 lovely varieties to brighten up your home
Angela Staehling
635.965 /Staehling
Gardening
For anyone who has longed for a garden of their own—whether a city dweller or one with less-than-green thumbs—this is a handy little guide to growing and maintaining houseplants. Cheerful and informative, Happy Houseplants will guide any budding indoor botanist through a bevy of topics, from soil and water to light and fertilizer. With beautiful illustrations accompanying 30 different profiles of plants, from the easygoing Air Plant to the striking Zebra Cactus, this nifty book is the perfect gift for anyone looking to bring a piece of the outdoors inside.
Added by Beth
Houseplants : the complete guide to choosing, growing, and caring for indoor plants
Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
635.965 /Steinkopf
Gardening
Houseplants profiles more than 150 different plants, and gives you the best techniques to raise them to be happy, green, and healthy. Houseplants gives you the best techniques to water, fertilize, groom, propagate and more—helping you keep your plants healthy.
This is a great book for anyone with houseplants. A well written easy to follow guide, it begins with a section on the basics of houseplant care. What I liked most about this book is how the 150+ plant profiles in the second half of the book. She has grouped them into 3 categories: Easy to Grow Moderately Easy and Challenging. Each category starts with multiple pages of thumbnail images to help you figure out what plant you have. Each plant profile has the common as well as botanical Latin name, a description, the plant’s light and water requirements, propagation methods and cultivars. -Beth
Up in the garden and down in the dirt
Kate Messner
jE Messner
Picture Books, Nature, Gardening
"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--
One in a great nonfiction picture book series, be sure to look for the others. -Casey
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A new book about one of my favorite flowers. Some of the varieties in my yard are over 50 years old. Can't wait to see if they're in this book. -Beth