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Rebecca's Garden: Four Seasons to Grow on [Hardcover]

Rebecca Kolls (Author)
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Book Description

May 1998
Welcome to Rebecca's Garden

Step into an oasis of tranquility and splendor with Rebecca Kolls, star of the lifestyle TV show that has swept the country and turned viewers from coast to coast into enthusiastic, creative landscape gardeners. Whether you live in the country or in a city apartment, Rebecca's Garden will guide you through the delights of toiling in the soil with her step-by-step, illustrated gardening techniques.

Rebecca's own enthusiasm for growing things and her plain, accessible advice have encouraged millions to create their own garden paradises. Starting from the ground up, she'll take you through the four seasons with color, creativity, and continuous bloom, showing you the simple tips that make gardening pleasing, satisfying and successful.

Create a symphony of bloom by selecting perennials according to climate zone, blooming season, height and color.
Add dazzling bright splashes with annuals that flower all summer.
Mix vegetables with flowers and herbs for a potpourri of color and texture.
Produce "Nature's black gold" for your garden with your own mulch pile.
Discover Rebecca's original ideas for plant containers and other craft ideas you can make yourself.

Rebecca supplies charts and specific advice for everything from selecting the right plants to how much feeding and watering is required in each part of your garden. She'll give you special project ideas with illustrated directions, and tell you how to create a water garden, decorate creatively with plants and cut flowers, and more. Rebecca's Garden is a window of opportunity that will enrich your !ife with the beauty and satisfaction of capturing ever-renewing Nature in all its glory.



Editorial Reviews

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TV gardener Rebecca Kolls brings her lively personality to the page with this beginner's guide to gardening. The reader will find basic advice on choosing tools, composting, and preparing beds as well as more substantial directions on growing and caring for vegetables and flowers, trees and shrubs, lawns, and water gardens throughout the seasons. Kolls gives brief lessons here and there in fertilizing, watering, cleaning tools, doctoring houseplants, starting seeds, and making simple crafts, while quick tips in shaded boxes are sprinkled throughout the text. An alphabetized section on vegetables with facts on site, growing, harvest, storage etc. is at the back of the book.

Rebecca's Garden is a solid gardening book; it includes something on just about everything a reader might want, down to a recipe for herbal mustard and snapshots of Rebecca's family, but the information, albeit sound and environmentally friendly, is general. Gardening novices who are inspired by Rebecca's warm on-air enthusiasm will get the most out of this more permanent resource of her guidance. --Karen Karleski

From Publishers Weekly

Kolls, who hosts TV's popular Rebecca's Garden, offers her practical landscape gardening advice in print, a format that fails to capture the liveliness of her presence on the airwaves. After explaining such preliminary start-up principles as soil preparation, zone and micro-climate identification and tool selection, she launches into her seasonal guide to planting and tending trees, shrubs, flowers and grass. Unfortunately, there's too much overlap from section to section. Of greatest value are the many gardening tips planted in sidebars. Kolls admonishes readers to "garden in the clouds" because cloudy days are more benign to plants. One pointer for fall suggests coating the cut edges of a newly carved pumpkin with petroleum jelly to forestall the shriveling process. Winter gardening moves indoors with craft projects, mower and tool maintenance and some general tips on houseplant care. An appendix lists planting, growing, nutritional and historical information about 36 vegetables commonly grown in the Midwest. While it's refreshing to see a book that discusses gardening in northern climates, this volume is not comprehensive enough to be any gardener's single reference.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 186 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books (T); 1st edition (May 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0380975750
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380975754
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,816,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars rebecca rocks, August 27, 2000
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Tami Ansley (Covington, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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Rebecca packs this fun-filled book with her sense of humor as well as some great ideas. Gardeners from beginner to expert will enjoy having this book around. I loved it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars rebecca rocks, August 27, 2000
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Tami Ansley (Covington, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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The easy to read, informative format of this book just makes it plain fun to have around. Rebecca packs it with her sense of humor as well as her great ideas. Every gardener from beginner to expert will enjoy having this book. I loved it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Especially great for new gardeners., May 9, 2011
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This review is from: Rebecca's Garden: Four Seasons to Grow on (Hardcover)
Rebecca Kolls had a wonderful show and magazine. The magazine is no more and although I hear she has a show ~ I can't locate it. So I buy whatever I can of hers. This is a very useful book and as always with Rebecca easy to understand. Beginners are never left in the fog with her. She makes it simple and fun to boot.
Whether a gardener is new to the game or simply in need of reference material this is worth having in a gardening library. I just wish she would put together another magazine. I have every copy I could find of her old magazine but would subscribe in a minute if she put a new one on the stands.
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