How to grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your California garden. Describes the many climate types in this varied state and gives good guidelines about which flowers grow where. Chapters include MAKING A GARDEN SPACE, CULTIVATING FLOWERS IN A DRY CLIMATE, CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ZONE ANALYSIS, NURSING YOUR SEEDLINGS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: ANNUALS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: BIENNIALS AND PERENNIALS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: BULBS, CUT FLOWER CHOICES: TREES AND SHRUBS, BEAUTY FROM EVERLASTINGS, PROPAGATING PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS AND DIVISIONS, PEST CONTROL THE ORGANIC WAY, and ARRANGING THE BOUNTY. At 103 pages, illustrated and indexed, this little book is packed with exactly the information needed -- no more and no less. It will give you many wonderful ways to make more of nature in your own landscape, and bring it all indoors. The price is low because the book was printed in 1990 and looks quaintly old-fashioned. But the information, presented here by two well-known garden writers, is just what your plant doctor ordered.

Cutting Garden for California

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MacKey, Betty

Kite, Pat

Gardening & Landscape Design

B. B.Mackey Books

1992, 2nd Edition (Revised and Expanded), BB Mackey Books softcover.

Cutting Garden for Florida

Monica Moran Brandies

Betty Mackey

Florida Gardening: the newcomer's survival manual by Monica Moran Brandies. How to make a great lawn and garden for your Florida home. Noted garden writer Monica Brandies tells Florida gardener wanna-be's how to: prepare for the move; learn to recognize and use great looking exotic plants; make a Florida landscape plan; adjust seasonal garden cores to the Florida climate; decide which Florida grass type to plant; have a marvelous lawn; use mulches and native plans to reduce labor and watering; use environmentally friendly garden methods in Florida; turn Florida sand into rich garden soil; select the most appropriate shrubs and flowers for the site; grow fruits and vegetables; grow plants in containers, indoors and out; use designer tips to decorate patios and poolsides with plants.

Florida Gardening: Newcomer's Survival Manual

Brandies, Monica Moran

Garden Notes Through the Years 1994-1997: A Four-Year Comparative Garden Diary

The Plant Collector's Notebook

Betty B. Mackey

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Herbs and Spices for Florida Gardens: How to Grow and Enjoy Florida Plants With Special Uses

True stories of life in a large, rural family written with warmth and humor.

Bless You for the Gifts

History

Americas

Grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your Florida home landscape. Treat yourself or a friend to this new edition (the third) of "A Cutting Garden for Florida." It tells how to grow the best cut flowers for Florida, and how to harvest, condition, and arrange them, fresh or dry. The month-by-month calendar for the distinctive northern, central, and southern regions of Florida is a valuable feature. The book has in-depth information on many annuals, biennials, bulbs, shrubs, and trees, including plant-by-plant growing and conditioning details. The index, illustrations, bibliography, resource list, website list, and public garden directory add to its thorough treatment of growing flowers and filler for delightful bouquets.

A Cutting Garden for Florida, Third Edition

Brandies, Monica

Sm Quarto, PP.164, B &amp; W Illustrations, Color Photo Plates, Probably The Best Book On Troughts

Creating and Planting Garden Troughs

Fingerut, Joyce

Murfitt, Rex

Gardeners in the Deep South are faced with everything from overgrown kudzu to extreme weather and unpredictable seasons. Conditions here don't bear much resemblance to those described in most other garden books. But MORE help for Deep South gardeners is here in this expanded second edition which contains real questions from gardeners who call Nellie on her live radio show and their answers. It has new questions and a new year-long guide to pruning.  Chapters cover fall, winter, spring, and summer, each with chores and tips for the season along with plenty of questions and their witty and wonderful answers.

Questions and Answers for Deep South Gardeners

Science & Math

Nellie Neal

Biological Sciences

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