1001 Hints & Tips for Your Garden [antikvár]

I'ly.! I-I t ¦ Preface With its A-to-Z format, 1001 Hints Tips for Your Garden works as a big, colorftil dictionary. Just turn to the topic of choice, whether it's tulips or lilies, shade or shears. Covering everything from acid soil to zucchini, the hints and tips you'll find here have been culled from leading horticulturists and accomplished home gardeners all over the country. Many of these nuggets are basic gardening tenets, while others are decidedly unconventional. (As we all know, no two gardeners do things in exactly the same way!) Any one of them, however, may prompt you to go outdoors and put your gardening talents to work. The 320-page Garden Dictionary contains cross-references that direct you from one topic to related ones, making sure that you get the big picture. Many of the featured plants and flowers come with a sampling of their varieties and types; look for the green-tinted boxes. Additional boxes, tinted yellow, provide plant histories, lore, and fascinaring asides. Interspersed throughout are 12 special features. Three of them— on period gardens, wildflower gardens, and backyard habitats— might inspire you to try something different. A fourth considers fragrance as a perfumer would, helping you to best appreciate the world of garden scents. Two other features celebrate the revival of heirloom roses and vintage vegetables, while the remaining seven provide essential information on plant shapes, year-round garden color, tools, housepiants, and herbs, plus projects and crafts that you can make with your garden's rich bounty. Following the Garden Dictionary is Enemies of the Garden, an illustrated guide to 108 common pests and diseases. A handy Garden Calendar, laid out month by month and divided into four broad climate zones, reminds you of the tasks you'll have to perform as the seasons change. Rounding out the book is a glossary, with concise definitions of common gardening terms. As a bonus, a list of garden information sources appears on pages 414-415. Happy gardening! The colored bonds in the table of contents at right indicate the Garden Dictionary's 12 special features and the introductory climate map. Vertical bands of the same color appear on the feature pages and are visible at the book's edge, allov^'ing for quick and easy reference.