Arranged for quick and easy reference and illustrated with more than 165 color photographs, this guide characterizes and classifies different plant varieties ranging from hedges and shrubs to climbing vines and evergreens. It also abounds with practical plant-care wisdom on watering, soils, spacing, sunlight, fertilizing, and pest and disease prevention. To ensure results, this guide contains an invaluable Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which charts the plant varieties that thrive best in particular regions. Also included are timetables for seasonal flowering patterns and insightful tips on landscaping--guaranteed to enhance the design and beauty of any yard or garden.--Back cover.

Arranged for quick and easy reference and illustrated with more than 165 color photographs, this guide characterizes and classifies different plant varieties ranging from hedges and shrubs to climbing vines and evergreens. It also abounds with practical plant-care wisdom on watering, soils, spacing, sunlight, fertilizing, and pest and disease prevention. To ensure results, this guide contains an invaluable Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which charts the plant varieties that thrive best in particular regions. Also included are timetables for seasonal flowering patterns and insightful tips on landscaping--guaranteed to enhance the design and beauty of any yard or garden.--Back cover.

This book is devoted solely to hummingbird gardening and is a practical guide to cultivating flowers and other plants that will attract the hummingbirds of North America to your home and garden. You will be able to grow flowers in profusion and provide nectar for these smallest of birds, which hover on fast-beating wings while they drink from flowers including pink Chinese lantern, bladderpod, woolly blue curls, scarlet sage, penstemon, columbine, long strips of fuschia, and many others. The Hummingbird Garden is packed with pertinent information, from a description of what hummingbird gardening is all about to how hummingbirds can be conserved and protected. Tekulsky explains the extraordinary way hummingbirds live and behave, the regions they inhabit throughout the year, and their migrating habits. He discusses how to start your own garden by recommending what to plant and then outlines what interesting events will take place in it. The valuable appendixes give complete information on hummingbird and plant varieties, bird and conservation organizations, and mail-order sources, as well as an extensive bibliography. Beautiful color photos throughout show many different types of hummingbirds enjoying their wonderfully active lives in gardens created expressly for them.

The newest entry in the "Nature Guide Series", this comprehensive, fully-illustrated book presents everything the gardener needs to know about identifying, selecting, and growing for more than 150 varieties of climbing plants. 216 full-color photos and illustrations.

"A successful garden does not just happen, it is an ever-developing amalgam of desire, design and, it must be added, commitment". So writes Allen Paterson in his book Designing a Garden. As much a why-to as a how-to, the book invites readers to explore the creative rewards that await just beyond their back door. Full-color throughout.

This information-packed volume is the definitive planting selection and design reference, covering the environmental suitability, aesthetic characteristics, uses, and culture requirements of over 3,600 trees, shrubs, and vines. A unique pictorial and photographic format allows fast, comprehensive search capabilities across all regions of the U.S., southern Canada and northern Mexico.10,500 photos, 2,000 maps, 6,000 calendars of regional hardiness.

A home for humming-birds.