Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal Carolinas [Hardcover]

Henry Rehder Jr. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

The coastal Carolinas are blessed with a long growing season, warm ocean breezes, and abundant rainfall. But there are challenges, too -- extreme summer heat and acidic soil among them. In this first guide to tidewater Carolina gardening, complete with over 120 full-color photos, Henry Rehder, Jr. shows how to cultivate plants that not only survive under these conditions, but thrive and remain attractive year-round.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A gem of a gardening guide...if you live in the Carolinas and aspire to a truly southern garden." --North Carolina Libraries, Spring 1977

"Informatively written, superbly presented. . . very highly recommended for personal and professional gardening." --Wisconsin Bookwatch, December 2000

"The most wonderful thing is that every plant description includes a month-by-month cultivation guide." --Rocky Mount Telegram

About the Author

Henry Rehder, Jr., ran his family's retail flower shop in Wilmington, NC, for many years. He also operated a horticultural management and research operation, and served as an advisor to his family's gardens, a nationally-known floral display with over 2,000 varieties of ornamental shrubs, trees, and bedding plants. He was the popular host of a call-in radio show about gardening, and appeared regularly on a local TV gardening feature.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Banks Channel Books; 1St Edition edition (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963596799
• ISBN-13: 978-0963596796
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #721,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Could this book rock any harder?, December 31, 2001

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"laurie20000" (Wilmington, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal Carolinas (Hardcover)

I love this book! I picked it up at the library and had to buy a copy of my very own. Detailed, month-by-month directions for caring for the best southern plants. I highly suggest this for anyone in the south for easy to use, definitive directions for keeping your plants happy and healthy.
Go Will Rehder, Jr.!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informatively written, superbly presented, January 10, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal Carolinas (Hardcover)

Profusely illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs by Freda H. Wilkins, Henry Rehder's Growing A Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide For The Coastal Carolinas is an informatively written, superbly presented, "reader friendly" compendium of horticultural advice and insights for establishing a flourishing and esthetically pleasing regional garden landscape. Gardening expert Rehder offers a wealth of practical ideas and suggestions for choosing and maintaining plants that will thrive under coastal conditions and offers a step-by-step, month-by-month guide for more than a hundred ornamental shrubs, trees, perennials, and lawngrasses. Very highly recommended for personal and professional gardening, landscaping, and horticultural reference collections, Growing A Beautiful Garden also covers the mechanics of plant installation, weeds, insects, diseases, animal pests, and fertilizers.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference book for coastal Carolinas, March 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal Carolinas (Hardcover)

I was excited to see a book published that was specific to the coastal area of the Carolinas. The book contains information on all of the most common landscape plants used in the area including a month by month guide to the care for each species. It has been very helpful to me in planning and caring for my "garden."