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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by
the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a
buried treasure. "A Rock Garden in the South" will not disappoint.
Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to
the Lawrence canon, but fills an important gap in the garden
literature on the middle South.
Lawrence, in her usual exquisite prose, deals with the full range
of rock gardening topics in this work. She addresses the unique
problem of cultivating rock gardens in the South, where the growing
season is prolonged and humidity and heat are not conducive to such
planting. She describes her own experiences in making a rock
garden, with excellent advice on placing stones, constructing
steps, ordering plants, and making cuttings.
At the same time, what she writes about here is in large part of
interest to gardeners everywhere and for gardens with or without
rocks. As always, she thoroughly discusses the plants she has
tried--recommending bulbs and other perennials of all sorts,
annuals, and woody plants--with poetic descriptions of the plants
themselves as well as specific and useful cultural advice. "A Rock
Garden in the South" includes an encyclopedia of plants
alphabetized by genus and species and divided into two parts: wood
and non-woody plants.
Guerrilla Yardwork: The First-Time Home Owner's Handbook rethinks
yardwork as you know it. Part manifesto, part field manual, it
draws upon the tenets of guerrilla warfare outlined by Sun Tzu, Che
Guevara, and others, to introduce guerrilla yardwork as both a
yardvolutionary philosophy and an effective practice for every
first-time home owner strapped for cash and pressed for time.
"Guerrilla yardwork utilizes the element of surprise to launch
small, repetitive attacks at unpredictable times and locations
around the yard to weaken Bad Nature and promote Good Nature in Her
stead. Offensive, highly mobile, and fluid in character, guerrilla
yardwork is marked by swift action of short duration, followed by
rapid withdrawal." The yard won't know what hit it. Start your
yardvolution at GuerrillaYardwork.com.
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