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America's most popular gardening series offers expert advice for creating a beautiful landscape for you home.
Collins
April 2006
312 pages ISBN: 0060599774 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
During its thirty years on television, "The Victory
Garden's" perennial mission has been to share sensible and
sage advice that makes gardening both fun and easy. Now, the
nation's oldest and most popular gardening program is proud
to present The Victory Garden Companion, an
indispensable guide that offers the best in gardening
expertise in a straightforward and friendly manner, inviting
gardeners of all levels to dig in and get their hands in the
soil. Moreover, host Michael Weishan shows budding
landscapers how to garden well, providing the
technical and aesthetic fundamentals essential to creating a
comfortable, beautiful, and rewarding garden.
The Victory Garden Companion begins by showing you
how to use pencil and paper to map out the garden of your
dreams, and how to factor in all the stylistic, climactic,
and environmental elements related to your particular
location. From assessing your area's unique microclimate and
sun and shade patterns to making your own landscape plan,
Michael Weishan and coauthor Laurie Donnelly demonstrate in
a clear and understandable fashion how to design an outdoor
living space that complements the look and feel of your
home. While setting the foundation for good
gardening, The Victory Garden Companion also covers
all aspects of landscaping, from creating hedges and
designing perennial borders to treating your soil and
selecting foundation plants. Michael and Laurie show you how
to create a water garden, build a backyard terrace, plant a
vegetable garden, and introduce many other amenities to the
urban, suburban, or rural garden. Filled to the
brim with creative ideas, weekend projects, and inspired
gardens, readers can pick and choose from a myriad of
undertakings, whether it's container gardening, laying sod,
or creating a flower bed. With more than 250 lavish
illustrations, troubleshooting tips, and informative charts
of tried and true species of plants and flowers, The
Victory Garden Companion is also an invaluable resource
that gardening enthusiasts will turn to again and again
throughout the year. Perfect for both serious
landscapers and those who want to focus on smaller projects,
The Victory Garden Companion is a must-have for
novices and experienced gardeners alike.
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