Plantiful start small, grow big with 150 plants that spread, self-sow, and overwinter
A bountiful garden is easy to create, and gardeners can save big by choosing plants that grow quickly and spread vigorously. The fragrant stems and dusty-blue flower spikes of anise hyssop will pop up throughout the garden when the plant goes to seed. A cascade of golden Japanese forest grass is a f...
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| Language: | English |
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Portland, Or. :
Timber Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Gardening with a generous nature : some ground rules
- How plants grow
- Opportunistic or invasive?
- Making the most of your garden
- Self-sowers : the price is right
- Guide to serendipity : taking editorial control
- Start a seed collection
- Propagation : sow it grows
- 50 faithful volunteers
- Plants that spread : when a little goes a long way
- Guide to abundance : reuse, replant, repeat
- Propagation : easy pieces
- 50 thrilling fillers
- Frost-tender plants : push the zone
- Guide to optimism : plan ahead and save for later
- Propagation : beg a cutting
- Overwintering : in from the cold
- 50 come-back keepers
- In sum.
