Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams
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Book Overview
Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead shows you how to triumph over climate, garden pests, and the design clich?s 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0609802658
ISBN13:9780609802656
Release Date:February 1999
Publisher:Three Rivers Press (CA)
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.5" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Warm, witty and wise
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
When I grow up, I want to be like Mrs. Greenthumbs! This book doesn't have any glossy photos - just so much practical gardening information that it's the BEST gardening book I ever read (and I've read many, many, many). Cassandra Danz shares her successes - and her failures - and hard-learned lessons in a funny, easy-to-read, month-by-month format. I LOVE this!!!
Easy to understand design concepts explained with humor
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
What a wonderful garden book! This is the first garden book I've found that explains the idea of proportion in garden design, with many specific examples to make the concept clear and easy to understand. (For example, if you have a six foot fence, the bed alongside it should be four feet deep. Read the book to get the mathematical formula.) She also describes the idea of "garden rooms" as a way to organize a property's landscaping. Very, very helpful and inspiring.
Lighthearted writing to take seriously
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I first happened across this book on display at my library and was entranced. The breezy style and down to earth advice were just right for my overworked, January-numbed mind. And after about the twentieth time Cassandra hammered away at the concept of garden "rooms," something finally clicked. I know this sounds corny, but one of those lightbulbs flashed on above my head, and I finally thought, "Hey, I really can do this in my own yard! I can have GARDENS!" Her clear, personal, descriptions of how to create gardens have radically changed how I view my little suburban yard and the act of gardening. And yes, I'm happily planning for spring.
Practical gardening advice in a funny, entertaining book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is the best garden book I've seen yet, and my shelves are lined with them. There is very useful gardening information here, unlike many of the pretty but impractical British books. It's especially helpful if you live and garden in the Northeast as the author does. She even covers the deer problem and what kinds of things they really won't eat. This book is also very funny and hard to put down. It will be on and off my shelf a lot this Spring as I re-work my garden with her great tips!
I learned practical garden applications from this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
What a treat to read a gardening book that is a bit irreverant but full of information that I have not found in other gardening guides. The information on drifiting, proportion and scale has completely revitalized my approach and garden design. And I found myself laughing out loud at her stories and metaphors!
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