Author:
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760341184
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. The book also includes complete information on how to garden successfully in Minnesotas harsh climate and how to install and maintain an attractive, low-maintenance home landscape suitable for any lifestyle.
Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota - 2nd Edition
Author:
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760341184
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. The book also includes complete information on how to garden successfully in Minnesotas harsh climate and how to install and maintain an attractive, low-maintenance home landscape suitable for any lifestyle.
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760341184
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. The book also includes complete information on how to garden successfully in Minnesotas harsh climate and how to install and maintain an attractive, low-maintenance home landscape suitable for any lifestyle.
Ten Plants That Changed Minnesota
Author: Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340340
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A book to inspire Minnesotans of all ages to learn about and reflect on the ten plants, chosen by experts and citizens, that have most impacted our state.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340340
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A book to inspire Minnesotans of all ages to learn about and reflect on the ten plants, chosen by experts and citizens, that have most impacted our state.
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat
Author: Meg McAndrews Cowden
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260618
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Discover how to create an even more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable garden across the seasons, and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260618
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Discover how to create an even more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable garden across the seasons, and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall
Growing Up on a Minnesota Farm
Author: Beverly Jackson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With nearly 100 vintage images and personal stories, [this book] relives the era [1930-1970] of this major agricultural revolution and takes the reader on a journey that will define a time of momentous change.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With nearly 100 vintage images and personal stories, [this book] relives the era [1930-1970] of this major agricultural revolution and takes the reader on a journey that will define a time of momentous change.
Guide to Minnesota Vegetable Gardening
Author: James Fizzell
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 9781591864035
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers advice on everything from starting your garden from seed, to planning your garden with helpful space saving techniques. Make this guide a must-have resource for anyone interested in growing vegetables, no matter what their space requirements. Helpful charts will outline when to plant and when to harvest cool and warm season vegetables.
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 9781591864035
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers advice on everything from starting your garden from seed, to planning your garden with helpful space saving techniques. Make this guide a must-have resource for anyone interested in growing vegetables, no matter what their space requirements. Helpful charts will outline when to plant and when to harvest cool and warm season vegetables.
The Northern Gardener
Author: Mary Lahr Schier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340463
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tips and tricks for the northern gardener collected from 150 years of Minnesota State Horticultural Society publications. Illustrated with color photos and vintage artwork.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340463
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tips and tricks for the northern gardener collected from 150 years of Minnesota State Horticultural Society publications. Illustrated with color photos and vintage artwork.
Uprooted
Author: Page Dickey
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260510
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, follow her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surrounding her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions—and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260510
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, follow her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surrounding her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions—and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.
Billy
Author: William F. Kirtland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967908601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967908601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Wishing for a Snow Day
Author: Peg Meier
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Peg Meier's candid interpretation of the joys and pains of childhood through the decades--at home, at school, at play--reminds us that we were all children once, too.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Peg Meier's candid interpretation of the joys and pains of childhood through the decades--at home, at school, at play--reminds us that we were all children once, too.
Growing Figs in Cold Climates
Author: Lee Reich
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550927507
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
From Minnesota to Moscow — how to grow fresh figs in cold climates Growing Figs in Cold Climates is a complete, full-color, illustrated guide to organic methods for growing delicious figs in cold climates, well outside the traditional hot, arid home of this ancient fruiting tree. Coverage includes: Five methods for growing figs in cold climates including overwintering Cultivar selection for cool and cold climates Pruning techniques for a variety of methods of growing figs in cold climates Pest problems and solutions Harvesting, including ways to speed ripening, identify ripe fruit, and manage an overabundance Small-scale commercial fig production in cold climates. Fresh figs are juicy, full-bodied, and filled with a honey-sweet flavor, and because truly ripe figs are highly perishable, they are only available to those who grow their own. By choosing the right cultivars and techniques, figs can be grown across cool and cold growing zones of North America, Europe, and beyond, putting them within reach of almost every gardener. Easy and delicious — if you can grow a houseplant, you can grow a fig.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550927507
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
From Minnesota to Moscow — how to grow fresh figs in cold climates Growing Figs in Cold Climates is a complete, full-color, illustrated guide to organic methods for growing delicious figs in cold climates, well outside the traditional hot, arid home of this ancient fruiting tree. Coverage includes: Five methods for growing figs in cold climates including overwintering Cultivar selection for cool and cold climates Pruning techniques for a variety of methods of growing figs in cold climates Pest problems and solutions Harvesting, including ways to speed ripening, identify ripe fruit, and manage an overabundance Small-scale commercial fig production in cold climates. Fresh figs are juicy, full-bodied, and filled with a honey-sweet flavor, and because truly ripe figs are highly perishable, they are only available to those who grow their own. By choosing the right cultivars and techniques, figs can be grown across cool and cold growing zones of North America, Europe, and beyond, putting them within reach of almost every gardener. Easy and delicious — if you can grow a houseplant, you can grow a fig.