There’s nothing quite so quaint as an English cottage garden, with its chaotic, whimsical charm, low-maintenance upkeep and wildlife-friendly plantings. But it’s not simply a case of throwing down seeds and waiting for them to grow. Over the following pages, we’ll share the best flowers for your beds, including the traditional rose, as well as foxgloves, delphiniums, geraniums and more. Our experts will talk you through the design rules that

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With over 100 years of combined gardening experience, renowned California horticulturalists Bruce and Sharon Asakawa bring you the perfect when-to, how-to, and what-to plant guide for gardening in the Golden State. Perhaps you've always entertained the idea of cultivating a garden in your California landscape, but have never quite known where to begin. Perhaps you've stood helplessly by as your once-beautiful calico flowers withered beneath the persistent...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of Midwest Gardener's Handbook, gardeners in the north central US are handed all the know-how they'll need to grow a lush, productive garden. If you live in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, or South Dakota, the environmentally sound growing info for both edible and ornamental plants found here is your green thumb map to success: • Profiles...