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Dahlias and Preparing for Fall September 2024 |
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Growing flowers : everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms
by Niki Irving
This book will feature fun, simple and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting and arranging seasonal flowers and vegetables. It will include chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings and keeping it organic
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The new plant collector : the next adventure in your house plant journey
by Darryl Cheng
''The world of indoor gardening is exploding with desirable new and unusual plants. Thanks to the resources of the internet and social media, finding amazing varieties has never been easier--but knowing how to get maximum enjoyment from this enticing world is not so easy. In The new plant collector, Darryl Cheng brings his knowledge-based approach to the quest, offering collecting suggestions to suit every level of experience, and describing the riches of twenty-two different plant groups, from anthuriums to tillandsias. As always, he focuses on meeting each plant's requirements for light and moisture, and he provides practical ways to create optimal growing conditions at home. To inspire readers, there are photographs showing the dazzling variety of colors, forms, and patterns that each group offers. For Cheng, the happy indoor gardener learns to appreciate plants as living things that undergo stages of growth, decline, and rebirth. He teaches the joys of propagation, so that anyone can produce new lifefrom old, increasing and sharing the world's wealth of beautiful plants''
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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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Autumn
Solo piano music inspired by the season, from composer and pianist George Winston.
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Perennial garden design
by Michael King
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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Pumpkin crafting : decorating projects and seasonal recipes
by Jen Rich
"Pumpkin Crafting includes more than 100 ideas for carving, painting, and dressing up your pumpkins, from imaginative carving templates to intricate painting designs and colorful accessories. In addition to the decorating projects, this book contains a variety of pumpkin recipes so that you can get the best use of your pumpkins all season long."
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The wreath recipe book : year-round wreaths, swags, and other decorations to make with seasonal branches
by Alethea Harampolis
Presents instructions for creating seasonal weaths, garlands, wall hangings, and table centerpieces using flowers, flowering tree branches, leaves, and grasses, with a discussion on tools, supplies, and cutting and attachment techniques
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Zen in the garden : the Japanese art of peaceful gardening
by Miki Sakamoto
"Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really 'talk' to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation? From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings spent sipping tea in her gazebo or watching fireflies as she recalls her childhood in Japan, in Zen in the garden Sakamoto shares observations from a life spent in contemplation--and cultivation--of nature''
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For the young and young-at-heart
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A is for autumn
by Robert Maass
Photographs and simple text present a variety of things seen in the fall
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Autumn
by Anna Claybourne
"Discover science, technology, engineering, art and maths (STEAM) through original craft projects and recycle at the same time! This brilliant series combines learning science with seasonal craft projects, scientific experiments and fun activities"
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Dahlia
by Barbara McClintock
Preferring her teddy named Bruno with whom she digs in the dirt and climbs trees, Charlotte is not happy about the delicate doll she receives from her Aunt Edme until Dahlia proves she likes making mud cakes and racing wagons, and the two soon become good friends.
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Fletcher and the Falling Leaves
by Julia Rawlinson
Fletcher, an inquisitive young fox, learns a valuable lesson in change when the leaves on his favorite tree start falling off, signaling that autumn has arrived.
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Harvest Time
by Erika L. Shores
"Simple nonfiction text and full-color photographs present crops and vegetables that are harvested in fall"
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In autumn... = : En otoäno
by Susana Madinabeitia Manso
A little girl celebrates the things that happen in autumn by falling like a leaf, blowing like the wind, smiling like a pumpkin, climbing like a squirrel, being sweet like an apple, and scaring like a scarecrow
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Leaf jumpers
by Carole Gerber
Illustrations and rhyming text describe different leaves and the trees from which they fall in the autumn
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Rolling Meadows Library
3110 Martin Lane, Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
(847) 259-6050rmlib.org |
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