The Southern Living Garden Book: Completely Revised, All-New Edition

Presents a guide to selecting trees, berries, perennials, and vines for the garden, and offers more than five thousand plant listings with information on varieties, cultivation, and maintenance

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bender, Steve

Gardening & Landscape Design

Oxmoor House

Passalong Plants

Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers; about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting from the fortunate gardener who has one. In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements. They present this information in the informal, chatty, and sometimes humorous manner that your next-door neighbor might use when giving you a cutting of her treasured Confederate rose. And, of course, because they are discussing passalong plants, they note the best method of sharing each plant with other gardeners. Because you might not spy a banana shrub or sweet pea in your neighborhood, the authors list mail-order sources for the heirloom plants described. They also give tips on how to organize your own plant swap. Although the authors live in and write about the South, many of the plants they discuss will grow elsewhere. from the book Amid the clamor of press releases touting the newest, improved versions of this bulb or that perennial, what keeps people interested in old-fashioned plants? Nostalgia, for one thing. It's hard not to feel a special fondness for that Confederate rose, night-blooming cereus, or alstroemeria lovingly tended by your grandmother when you were a child. Such heirloom plants evoke memories of your first garden, of relatives and neighbors that have since passed on, of prized bushes you accidentally annihilated with your bicycle. Recall the time you first received a particular plant, and you'll recall the person who gave it to you.

Rushing, Felder

The University of North Carolina Press

Definitive gardening advice - along with a story or two - for the novice or expert from one of the nation's most-trusted, and Grumpy, sources. Gardeners from across the country have turned to Southern Living Senior Garden Editor Steven Bender - known affectionately as "The Grumpy Gardener" - for his keen knowledge and gardening know-how with equal doses sarcasm and sidesplitting humor for nearly 35 years. Finally, the collected wit and wisdom of the magazine's most irreverent and beloved columnist can be found in a single A - Z volume, providing gardeners from coast-to-coast with his valuable tips for planting, troubleshooting, and growing flowers, vegetables, shurbs, trees and more, all delivered in his signature cantankerous style. Sidebars throughout the book - "Ask Grumpy" - help readers tackle common garden problems ("How do I get ride of little house ants?"), and readers from the past 35 years take part in the book when Grumpy shares his favorite reader's responses to some of his advice, his favorite rules for gardening, and Q &amp; A's covering your favorite plants and flowers are all inside. Additionally, beautiful line-drawings and illustrations throughout make the book as beautiful to look at as well as entertaining to read. The Grumpy Gardener is sure to become the most trusted tool in your gardening shed!

The Grumpy Gardener: An A to Z Guide from the Galaxy's Most Irritable Green Thumb

The Editors of Southern Living

TI Inc. Books

Color photographs show the gardens and recreational facilities of Callaway Gardens, founded by Cason and Virginia Callaway outside of Atlanta, Georgia

Callaway Gardens: Legacy of a Dream

Callaway Editions

Longstreet Pr

Your wedding reception is like the first time you will be hosting a milestone celebration for your loved ones as husband and wife.
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You can look at the contributions from these leading wedding professionals for big ideas, inspirations, and themes. Some will share different, unexpected challenges they faced, and how they overcame them by thinking on their feet.
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Remarkable Receptions: Conversations with Leading Wedding Professionals

Self-Help

St. John, Kevin

Imperial, Mark

Chudzik, Eric

Commisso, Anthony

Zito, Sally

Addy, Rick

Seibert, Travis

Barratt, Scott

Bushey, Shannon

Relationships

Remarkable Press

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