This is a how-to book for the newcomer or long-time home-owner in the 11 mountain west states
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"Gardeners recently transplanted to the mountains and plains will find the perplexities of their new locale explained in Barbara Hyde's revised "Gardening in the Mountain West". This is an award-winning reference that thoroughly demystifies the quirks and peculiarities of horticulture in our region for both the novice and the experienced gardener." -- Marcia Tatroe, The Denver Post, Dec. 4, '99
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Barbara Hyde is a retired Cooperative Extension horticulturist and a native Coloradan. She has over fifty years experience as a home gardener as well as 17 years experience as a professional horticulturist.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Yes, She Really Does Understand What it's Like Here!,
By "prairigirl" (Northern Idaho, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gardening in the Mountain West (Paperback)
The author has spent her entire life in the mountain west, has degrees in horticulture and is a retired Colorado Cooperative Extension Service agent. She implemented the Master Gardener program in Boulder County, and she's one smart lady!This book is a real compendium of ideas suitable for mountain and intermountain areas. She not only describes what works--and what doesn't--but tells the reader why. The first section includes chapters on landscape planning and design, followed by a section on cultural procedures. Want to plant a windbreak? She tells you how. Need to know how to prune a tree without destroying it? It's right here. And much, much more. Hyde mixes contemporary wisdom and knowledge with "old-timey" country skills in chapters on protecting plants from flood, frost, hail, heat, ice, lightning, vandalism, wind and Ol' Man Winter. Other sections focus on specific plants for the mountain west and the garden necessities, including tools. I live on small acreage on a northern Idaho prairie. There are gardening books I've enjoyed more, but none that have helped me as much as this one.
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No color pictures,
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This review is from: Gardening in the Mountain West (Paperback)
Major disappointment. Probably a ton of good content. But the little stick drawings of plants, at best, and no drawings a lot, for most, is a real let down.
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weathered manure, sphagnum peatmoss, oxygenating grass, honeysuckle aphid, orange fall color, brilliant red fall color, yellow fall color, prefers part shade, head ditch, winter watering, red fall foliage, compound foliage, yellow fall foliage, inconspicuous flowers, basal foliage, prefers acid soil, scaffold branches, narrow crotches, island planting, natural precipitation, ray flowers, white flower clusters, heavy snow loads, weed barrier, rounded crown Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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