Southern Gardening: An Environmentally Sensitive Approach
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Book Description
Create the lush landscape of your dreams with this comprehensive guide to beautiful, environmentally conscious yards and gardens. Southern Gardening suggests useful groundcovers and easy-care, adaptable trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals. Identify and deal with exotic invasive plants that threaten our natural areas, and learn minimally damaging ways of dealing with insect pests. Plus, a month-by-month guide will help gardeners plan ahead as they strive to have gardens that are more earth-friendly.
Master Gardener Marie Harrison shares her wealth of knowledge and experience, as well as her unique gardening philosophies, with a friendly, easygoing style that's both helpful and reassuring for gardeners of all ages and experience levels. She, like many others, realizes that the way we manage our gardens affects the environment and the world that we share.
About the Author
Marie Harrison is a Master Gardener and serves on the Board of Directors for the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs. She is the author of Gardening in the Coastal South, also published by Pineapple Press. She writes gardening columns for a number of newspapers and other publications in addition to lecturing frequently at garden clubs, centers, and seminars. She lives with her Amiable Spouse in the midst of her lovely garden in Valparaiso, Florida.
Southern Gardening: An Environmentally Sensitive Approach,Marie Harrison,Pineapple Press (FL),1561643297,Environmental aspects,Flowers - General,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Landscape gardening,Landscape plants,Regional - General,Regional - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA,Southern States
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