Descriere: The unique foliage, aromatic flowers, and dramatic colors of citrus add an exotic touch to the ga
Autori: Martin Page (Author) | Editura: TIMBER PR INC | Anul aparitiei: 2008 | ISBN: 9780881929065 | Categorie: Gardening
Wade Graham
Beautifully illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, "American Eden" is at once a different kind of gardening book, and a different kind of American history, one that offers a compelling, untold story.
Greg Loades (Author)
Dominique Browning
Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener
With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning offers this lively, charming, and instructive story of restoring a neglected suburban garden. When a retaining wall in Browning's New York suburban garden collapsed, she was forced into action. Paths of Desire is the enchanting, amusing, and moving account of making a garden -- and confronting the essence of suburban gardening, with its idiosyncratic ecosystem. This meant struggling with depraved skunks and raccoons, marauding teenagers, plastic jungle gyms, toppling garbage cans, uncontrollable eyesores, potholed drives, and all the grinding, honking, and buzzing of the neighborhood. Browning's delightfully frank prose conveys the very sense of being deep in a garden, with all its organic smells and textures, and the myriad joys of deciding what to plant and watching as the vision is realized. It contains a rich store of advice and illustrative anecdotes for enthusiasts and novices alike, as Browning amusingly documents the missteps she took in the planning of her garden and the satisfactions of finally getting it ...