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Annuals and perennials : a gardener's encyclopedia
by Geoff Bryant 635.93/BRY
Provides full-color photos and complete information--including growing zones and common names, color variations, growth habit, propagation techniques, recommended uses, problem parasites or diseases and extra cultivation notes--for more than 1,300 annual and perennial flower species.
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Designing With Perennials
by Pamela J. Harper 635.932/HAR
Covers principles of garden design and plant combinations, discusses color, depth, texture, and height, offers advice on planning beds, borders, foundation plantings, and landscaping
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Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants : Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts
by Derek Fell 635.9/FEL
A valuable resource for gardeners furnishes comprehensive information on more than seven hundred recommended plants--including bulbs, annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, trees, vegetables, fruits, and nuts--along with facts on each plant's growth habits, zone ratings, suggested uses, soil conditions, water and light requirements, planting tips, and other essentials.
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The gardener's guide to prairie plants
by Neil Diboll 639.9/DIB
With over a thousand photos of prairie plants at key stages of development, this comprehensive guide will provide the novice or experienced gardener or landscaper interested in the world of prairie plants with the means to identify, cultivate, and nurture these incredible plants. From helping bird and butterfly migrations and improving food sources for wildlife to other benefits such as a reduced need for fertilization, water, and pest control, there are many ecological and financial reasons to embrace native prairie plants.
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Growing bulbs in the natural garden : innovative techniques for combining bulbs and perennials in every season
by Jacqueline van der Kloet 635.9/KLO
Be inspired by nature's design! From the earliest snowdrops to alpine violet, tulips, and late autumn crocuses, bulbs add interest and color to the garden throughout the year. Renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet has mastered a nonchalant and magical style, where bulbs emerge playfully, dancing among perennials and grasses. Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden provides inspiration and insights gained from van der Kloet's career, using nature as a model. This exquisitely photographed guide offers advice on bulb varieties, planting methods, and handy tools for gardeners working in spaces large and small
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Growing perennial foods : a field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits & vegetables
by Acadia Tucker 635/TUC
Acadia Tucker's longtime love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing and harvesting them. A regenerative farmer deeply concerned about global warming, Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant these hardy crops. Sturdy and deep rooted, perennials can weather climate extremes more easily than annuals. They tend to thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and they don't need as much water, either. These long-lived plants also help build healthy soil, turning the very ground we stand on into a giant carbon sponge. Tucker lays the groundwork for tending an organic, regenerative garden. For her, this is gardening as if our future depends on it, and she spells out why. Most of the book is dedicated to profiles of 34 popular herbs, fruits, and vegetables, with instructions on how to plant, grow, and harvest them. Tucker also includes 34 recipes.
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Hydrangeas for American gardens
by Michael Dirr 635.93372/DIR
To fill a perceived gap in garden references, a horticulturalist working in hydrangea breeding at the University of Georgia describes the primary species and cultivars of this popular shrub grown in North America. He discusses their cultivation needs, uses, and prospects for further exciting varieties, such as the new repeat bloomers. The book includes lists of specialty associations, gardens, and nurseries.
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The Know Maintenance perennial garden
by Roy Diblik 635.932/DIB
Outlines a simplified approach to creating professional-looking home gardens on small-sized grids of complementary plants, profiling dozens of community varieties that can be selected for individual needs and minimal maintenance.
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The Midwest native plant primer : 225 plants for an earth-friendly garden
by Alan Branhagen 635.95177/BRA
A native plant is defined as one that grew wild in a particular area prior to settlement by Europeans. If you live in the Midwest, choosing plants native to the region will benefit you, your yard, and the environment by reducing maintenance tasks, and attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees. Branhagen inspires readers to include native plants in their home gardens and landscapes.
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Native plants of the Midwest : a comprehensive guide to the best 500 species for the garden
by Alan Branhagen 635.0977/BRA (also available as an ebook)
Native Plants of the Midwest shows you the best native plants and how to use them in your garden. This invaluable resource includes 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, groundcovers, bulbs, and annuals; plants that attract native bees, butterflies, birds, and other beneficial wildlife; and practical cultivation tips for adding natives to your garden.
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Perennial garden design
by Michael King 712.6/KIN
A comprehensive guide to perennial gardening explains how to make perennial plants a key part of any garden design, looking at the best perennials for year-round planting and color effects, offering tips on how to use perennials in various styles of gardens, and including an A-Z directory of popular perennial plants with tips on cultivation and care.
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The perennial gardener's design primer
by Stephanie Cohen 635.932/COH
Two top garden writers and teachers offer a complete guide to planning out a perennial garden that will last years by choosing the perfect plant and plant combinations for a given site, with design solutions for twenty specific types of gardens. Simultaneous.
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Perennial vegetables : from artichoke to zuiki taro, a gardener's guide to over 100 delicious, easy-to-grow edibles
by Eric Toensmeier 635/TOE
Imagine growing vegetables that require just about the same amount of care as the flowers in your perennial beds and borders—no annual tilling and potting and planting. They thrive and produce abundant and nutritious crops throughout the season. It sounds too good to be true, but in Perennial Vegetables author and plant specialist Eric Toensmeier (Edible Forest Gardens) introduces gardeners to a world of little-known and wholly underappreciated plants. Ranging beyond the usual suspects (asparagus, rhubarb, and artichoke) to include such "minor" crops as ground cherry and ramps (both of which have found their way onto exclusive restaurant menus) and the much sought after, anti-oxidant-rich wolfberry (also known as goji berries), Toensmeier explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and satisfaction . Perennial vegetables are perfect as part of an edible landscape plan or permaculture garden. Profiling more than 100 species, illustrated with dozens of color photographs and illustrations, and filled with valuable growing tips, recipes, and resources, Perennial Vegetables is a groundbreaking and ground-healing book that will open the eyes of gardeners everywhere to the exciting world of edible perennials.
DVD also available on the nonfiction shelves!
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Perennials
by Ray Edwards 635.932/EDW
Offers advice on choosing perennials for flowering and foliage interest, illustrates soil preparation, propagation, and care, and describes a variety of species
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Perennials
by Not Available 635.932/PER
Information on choosing and caring for perennials accompanies a photographic guide to more than 1,000 plants by type, size, color, and season of interest
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Perennials for Illinois
by Bill Aldrich 635.932/ALD
Perennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 92 different perennials, along with information on 569 recommended varieties and cultivars perfect for Illinois gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors share their commonsense and practical advice to help you transform any patch of ground into a spectacular garden you can enjoy year after year.
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Peony : the best varieties for your garden
by David Michener 635.93344/MIC
Perfect for both enthusiastic home gardeners and peony collectors alike, a comprehensive guide to the peony, a flowering plant popular for its beauty and fragrance, profiles 194 varieties and is filled with cultivation advice, design information and plant picks, as well as a list of resources and suggested further reading.
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Planting the natural garden
by Piet Oudolf 635.9/OUD
One of the world's most innovative garden designers and a leading exponent of naturalistic planting presents a revised edition of the book that heralded the start of the New Perennial Movement and launched his career.
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Prairie-style gardens : capturing the essence of the American prairie wherever you live
by Lynn M. Steiner 635.9/STE
This colorful guide to prairie plants provides in-depth information on the grassland ecosystems that historically spanned the North American continent and details how gardeners and homeowners can use native plants to reclaim and conserve a portion of this natural heritage. The first half of this work is divided into four sections beginning with a discussion of types of prairies and their constituent parts and proceeding through chapters providing practical instruction for preparing and creating a prairie garden at home and the use and maintenance of native prairie plants in traditional landscaping applications. The second half of the volume presents detailed profiles of individual prairie plants including flowers, grasses and sedges, and each entry includes hardiness information, habitat requirements, landscaping uses, and maintenance tips as well as advice on companion plantings. Numerous color photographs are provided throughout. Steiner is a professional gardener and expert on native plants of the Midwest.
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Prairie up : an introduction to natural garden design
by Benjamin Vogt 712.0977/VOG
Landscaping with native plants has encouraged Midwesterners to embark on a profound scientific, ecological, and emotional partnership with nature. Benjamin Vogt shares his years of expertise with prairie plants in a full-color guide aimed at gardeners, homeowners, and landscape designers. Step-by-step blueprints point readers to plant groupings that not only attract pollinators and please the eye but minimize maintenance and ensure years of healthy growth. In addition, Vogt gives proven tips on everything from invasive plants to essential tools to working with skeptical homeowner associations. Outside experts also provide inspiration while a section of additional resources makes the book an invaluable reference. Easy to use and illustrated with over 150color photos, Prairie Up is a practical guide to reviving diversity and wildness in our communities.
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The seasonal gardener : creative planting combinations
by Anna Pavord 635.932/PAV
This classic book reveals how best to group plants in a garden to create a year-long display. Ranging from hydrangeas, salvias and ferns to dahlias, tulips and snowdrops, each star plant is paired with two partners, offering gardeners creative planting solutions to achieve stunning results, season by season.
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City of lake and prairie : Chicago's environmental history
by Kathleen A. Brosnan 307.76/CIT
Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet-City of Lake and Prairie-with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors' interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
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Perennials: a novel
by Julie Cantrell available as e-book
When two estranged sisters reunite for their parents' 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers of their mother's perennial garden. Eva--known to all as Lovey--grew up in Oxford, MS, surrounded by literary history and her mother's stunning perennial gardens. But a garden shed fire and the burns suffered by one of her best friends seemed to change everything. Her older sister Bitsy blamed her for the fire--and no one spoke up on her behalf. Bitsy the cheerleader, Bitsy the homecoming queen, Bitsy married to a wealthy investor. And all the while, Lovey blamed for everything that goes wrong. At eighteen, Lovey turns down a marriage proposal, flees from Oxford and the expectations of attending Ole Miss, and instead goes to Arizona--the farthest thing from the South she can imagine. She becomes a successful advertising executive, a weekend yoga instructor, and seems to have it all together. But she's alone. And on her 45th birthday, she can't help but wonder what's wrong. When she gets a call from her father--still known to everyone as Chief from his Ole Miss football days--insisting that she come home three weeks early for her parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration, she's at wits end. She's about to close the biggest contract of her career, the one that will secure her financial goals and set her up for retirement. But his words, "Family First," hit too close to home. Is there hope for her estranged relationship with Bitsy after all this time? Eva's journey home, to the memory garden her father has planned as an anniversary surprise for her mother, becomes one of discovering roots, and truth, and love, and what living perennially in spite of disappointments and tragedy really means. Eva thought she wanted to leave her family and the South far behind. but she's realizing she hasn't truly been herself the whole time she's been gone.
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Garden walk
by Virginia Brimhall Snow PIC/SNO
"Stroll through Grammy's garden and surrounding woods to discover many different kinds of vegetables, fruits, trees, flowers, and animals"
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Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney PIC/COO
Deciding in childhood that she would seek adventure in faraway places, Miss Rumphius fulfills her dream and then has one more thing to do--something to make the world more beautiful
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Perennial plants and annual plants explained
by Shirley Smith Duke 635.9J/DUK
All flowering plants follow the same basic steps in their life cycle. Annuals complete their life cycle in one season. Biennials have a two-year life cycle. Plants that live for three or more years are classified as perennials
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