Better Homes and Gardens Gardening in the Shade

by Anne Halpin

Book Overview

Helpful hints of choosing, cultivating, and caring for a variety of plants in shady environments are accompanied by 275 full-color photographs, an encyclopedia of more than 250 shade-loving plants,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696046520
• ISBN13: 9780696046520
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Very informative, easy to read and understand.

This book is filled with beautiful full color photographs of complete gardens and individual plants. It is divided into six chapters: 1 - The Shady Environment (which allows you to determine what category your garden spot is in) 2 - Types of Shade Gardens (i.e along a wall, a fence, a rock garden, etc - all types well covered) 3 - Elements of Design (Putting the different plants together perfectly taking into account plant types, colors, size, needs, etc. 4 - Plants for Shade Gardens (this is what I needed - pictures of the plants and a complete description of their requirements) 5 - Starting the Garden (preparing the land, the plants, etc) 6 - Maintaining the Gardening (keeping up what you just spent so much time making) And (7) is the index. This book would be a TEN, if the author could guarantee that my Garden will look like the pictures in the book (someday).