In many established yards and gardens, plants have peaked -reached maturity and gone beynd. Every garden needs periodic sprucing up. Here's the tool. Written by a professional greenhouse owner, Landscape Magic covers annuals, perennials, deciduous and evergreen trees, berry patches, and orchards. It provides practical advice on maintaining flowering shrubs, lawns, and vegetable gardens.
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Annuals get leggy, invasive perennials crowd out weaker ones, flowering shrubs plead for pruning, fruit trees stop bearing and hedges overgrow. Green presents solutions to all these problems. His magic depends on compost, pruning shears and shovels, plus the knowledge and the motivation to use these tools. Green, who runs a commercial nursery in Ontario, tells how to rejuvenate annuals, perennials, flowering shrubs, roses, evergreen shrubs, vines, trees, small fruits and lawns. Describing himself as a "lazy gardener" who prefers wandering in the garden to weeding it, Green provides detailed instructions that make pruning a monster shrub seem like a plausible endeavor. He also offers high-, medium- and low-maintenance approaches to lawns, a welcome recognition of the varying amounts of time and effort people are willing or able to invest. Helpful features, including clear and extensive pruning diagrams, plant propagation lists and an annotated bibliography, round out this bag of gardening tricks.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Green gives expert advice on getting annuals to increase their blooms, keeping perennials healthy and flowering, and "renovating" flowering shrubs, roses, evergreen shrubs, vines, trees, small-fruit plants, and lawns. Each chapter focuses on a specific range of plants or gardening conditions. Two additional chapters deal with improving soil structure and with garden maintenance. Color photographs and illustrations carefully augment the text. There's no magic offered here, but Green's commonsense approach and attention to detail make this an invaluable guide to getting any garden back in shape. George Cohen
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Doug Green, award winning garden author, brings a down-to-earth style and easy gardening systems to his lifetime of organic garden achievements.
A semi-retired nurseryman, Doug has been answering beginner gardening questions with organic remedies for over 30 years and looks for ways to succeed that don't involve a lot of work or complexity. Refusing to take himself seriously, he believes in enjoying gardens, not working in them. If he's not writing about gardens, he's out enjoying them (or even out sailing) on his island home out in Lake Ontario. Occasionally, he will work in one but he's on a lifetime quest to have a garden that doesn't involve the concept of "real work".
Doug answers gardening questions on his 8 websites and writes because (as he so wryly puts it) it's "easier than working for a living".
What his friends will tell you is his books are works of love because he'd rather write and garden than do most other things.
A semi-retired nurseryman, Doug has been answering beginner gardening questions with organic remedies for over 30 years and looks for ways to succeed that don't involve a lot of work or complexity. Refusing to take himself seriously, he believes in enjoying gardens, not working in them. If he's not writing about gardens, he's out enjoying them (or even out sailing) on his island home out in Lake Ontario. Occasionally, he will work in one but he's on a lifetime quest to have a garden that doesn't involve the concept of "real work".
Doug answers gardening questions on his 8 websites and writes because (as he so wryly puts it) it's "easier than working for a living".
What his friends will tell you is his books are works of love because he'd rather write and garden than do most other things.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
invaluable for anyone renovating an old garden,
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This review is from: Landscape Magic (Paperback)
I purchased this book right after I bought an old house with a seriously overgrown garden. This book told me how to save the neglected fruit trees and rose bushes, and how to save the languishing perennial beds. Plus, it's a good guide to general garden maintenance. I'd love to see a west coast version.
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