The Southern Garden Advisor [Paperback]

Barbara Pleasant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2003

A creative, easy-to-use handbook for the dedicated Southern gardener, the Southern Garden Advisor delivers timely tips, practical advice, and detailed instructions on how to make your Southern garden and lawn the envy of all your friends.

This sourcebook is organized by season…the essential gardener's almanac for Southerners. Topics include:

Seasonal plant care advice for all aspects of the Southern garden, including trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruits, lawns, ground covers, and shrubs.

Specific instructions on how to grow, prune, and care for a wide variety of plants.

Helpful sidebars packed with fascinating facts, including:

• Wonderful Words-essential garden vocabulary
• Great Gadgets-for instance, "ten things to do with a plastic milk jug"
• Nature Unlimited-tips on how gardeners can help the environment

Written by Barbara Pleasant, a seasoned Southern gardener with more than 500,000 gardening books in print, the Southern Garden Advisor is a must-have resource!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Barbara Pleasant has written five books for Storey, including the Garden Writer's Association 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement winner, "Garden Stone". She lives in Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (December 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591860458
• ISBN-13: 978-1591860457
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,441,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have the greatest job in the world, which is helping gardeners find neat ways to make the world a more beautiful and productive place. Writing feature article for Mother Earth News and other magazines helps to break up long stretches spent on books, and it's also great fun to talk with fellow gardeners, who are a constant source of new and better ideas.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource!, February 11, 2004

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Melanie Garton (Knoxville, TN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Southern Garden Advisor (Paperback)

When I was struggling to select plants for my garden in my new home, this book helped me to understand plants appropriate for my area, times to plant them, and many other helpful hints. This book is a great resource for gardeners all over the South!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Southern Garden Advisor, February 9, 2004

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Susan Cooley (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Southern Garden Advisor (Paperback)

Having Barbara Pleasant's book in hand is like having a good neighbor who shares her experience like plants from a well-tended garden. Such experience and generosity translate into a book packed with useful science, interesting and humorous history, as well as a wonderfully common-sense approach to gardening. Her month-by-month guide reminds us of not only what it's time to do but the pleasures, joys and mysteries that we enjoy when growing things - indoors and out - are part of our lives. It's hard to capture that wonder, but she seems to have done it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a pleasant conversation with a gardening friend, July 3, 2006

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Flush Barrett-Browning (Tennessee Valley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Southern Garden Advisor (Paperback)

Pleasant's book is a genial stroll through the gardening year. She has an easy natural style and interesting information to impart. This book is more in the nature of a friendly gardening conversation between friends than a how-to book, but the information provided is correct and well selected. I'm off to look for other Pleasant books....