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I love this book because... This is the greatest source for finding the perfect plant for the perfect place. There's a list for shrubs that love dry shade, plants for boggy places, and so on. It's good to look at The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists with a plant catalog or illustrated plant encylopedia nearby, in case you need to see what each suggestedplant looks like.
First published in 1982, this month - by month summary of the beauty of southern gardens as the year unfolds is as current today as it was over 20 years ago. In these drought-stressed times, choosing native plants is where it's at - they have the best chance in our gardens, andwill give us fewer headaches in the long run. Fathers, instill in your children the garden-mania. They will grow up the better for it.- Prince De Ligne Plant shown at top of page: Rosemary officianalis, blooming in our Atlanta garden, February 8, 2008. ask gardengirl your garden questions -click here! SERVICES: Tool Sharpening - if you live in the Atlanta area, this is the place: Keen-Edge Co. 395 Edgewood Avenue, SE Atlanta, GA 404-523-5006 | For plant and seed sources, see our Plant Sources Page Periodicals Avant Gardener: the ultimate in gardening news- think of it like your own news clipping service. Published monthly for almost 40 years, it's 8 pages of distilled information from university research, gardening periodicals and the latest gardening trends, books, plants and ideas. Subscriptions are $24 per year. For more information, contact The Avant Gardener, P. O. Box 489, New York, NY 10028. (no website) Market Bulletins: see Plant Sources Books Peter Coats - The House and Garden book of Garden Decoration, Viking Press, 1970 Pamela Crawford - Instant Container Gardens, Color Garden Press, 2007 Derek Fell Derek Fell's Handy Garden Guides: Bulbs, Friedman/Fairfax, 1999. Excellent pictues of each bulb with growing conditions, blooming times. Simple and easy to use for identification. Edith Henderson Edith Henderson's Home Landscape Companion - Peachtree Publishers, 1993. A great source for emerging gardeners planning a home garden. Gertrude Jekyll- Wood and Garden, The Ayer Company,1983 Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening, Edited by Penelope Hobhouse, First Vintage Books, 1985. A good anthology of the writings of Gertrude Jekyll, sorted out by months, with comentaries by Ms. Hobhouse, one of Britian's leading comtemporary plantswomen. Elizabeth Lawrence - for more about E. Lawrence, click here. Published books: Beautiful All Season, Duke University Press, 2007 A Southern Garden, UNC Press 1942, 1967, 1984, 1991, 2001. Eyewitness Garden Books: Pruning and Training, Dorling -Kindersley,1999 Vita Sackville West - published books Country Notes, M. Joseph (1939), Harper (1940), reprinted, Books for Libraries (1971) Country Notes in Wartime, Hogarth Press (1940), Doubleday (1941), reprinted, Books for Libraries 1970) In Your Garden, M. Joseph (1951), published as Vita Sackville-Wests Garden Book, edited by Philippa Nicolson, Atheneum (1968), published in England as V. Sackville-Wests Garden Book: A Collection Taken from In Your Garden, M. Joseph (1968), reprinted, Macmillan (1983) In Your Garden Again, M. Joseph (1953) More for Your Garden, M. Joseph (1955) A Joy of Gardening: A Selection for Americans, I. Popper, ed., Harper (1958) Even More for Your Garden, M. Joseph (1958) The Illustrated Garden Book: A Naew Anthology, Robin Lane Fox, ed., Atheneum (1986) The Land and the Garden, Viking (1989) Some Flowers, Cobden-Sanderson (1937), reprinted, illustrated by Graham Rust, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1993) Sara Stein: My Weeds, A Gardener's Botany, Houghton Mifflin (1994) Helen Van Pelt Wilson: Perennials Preferred, M. Barrows and Co. (1945) Websites Flower Tending - great step by step directions for using cut flowers successfully. http://www.flowertending.com/flower-care-tips.html The National Weather Service - vital forecasts, trends, drought and freeze histories and so much more!http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ Container Gardening - Pamela Crawford demonstrates how to plant hanging baskets and containers. www.sideplanting.com Dave's Garden - an online gardening forum, with plant directory and seed-trading. http://davesgarden.com/ Georgia Native Plant Society - excellent resource about what plants are native to the area, with a photo gallery of native plants for your garden! http://www.gnps.org/index.html Florida Native Plant Society - even if you don't live in Florida, this website gives us good ideas about plants that like it hot! http://www.fnps.org/ Georgia Urban Agriculture Council - certifies homeowners to allow them to water newly planted landscapes, has links to county and city websites for water restriction information. www.outdoorwateruse.com North Carolina Native Plant Society - this organization has been around since 1951, and is a wonderful resource for gardeners interested in Native Plants. North Carolina has one of the best roadside wildflower planting programs, thanks to them! http://www.ncwildflower.org/
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