Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams

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Crown Publishers, 1998 - Gardening - 201 pages
Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead shows you how to triumph over climate, garden pests, and the design cliches of the typical suburban landscape to make gardening an unrivaled entertainment.
Here's how any gardener, even with limited land, money, time, or experience, can create a glorious cottage garden.
Siting, enclosing, and "furnishing" a garden
Using the classical rules of proportion to balance your garden plan
Making the most of your garden depending upon its angle to the sun
Constructing a garden path, a rusticated arbor, or a wattle fence
Combining trees, shrubs, and perennials for abundance and bloom throughout the growing season
Using color as a unifying theme, accent, or expression of mood
Propagating shrubs and perennials simply and cheaply
Plus a special section on chemical-free pest control and deer-resistant plants.

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Contents

CREATE THE GARDEN AS A SEPARATE PLACE
1
PLANT PERENNIALS AND PLANT THEM
56
USE PLANTS THAT GROW EASILY IN Your
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