Guerrilla Gardening

by Barbara Pallenberg

Book Overview

This book is not for sissies. It is not for people who want merely to smell the flowers. In Guerrilla Gardening Barbara Pallenberg has given us a field manual for the resuscitation and nurture of neglected, damaged, and orphaned flora, and a way to use those castaways to create a beautiful garden. Most books on gardening provide you with safe, conventional, boring directions on transplanting overnurtured hothouse plants from nurseries and planting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580631835
• ISBN13: 9781580631839
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Renaissance Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Join the Plant Army!

I'll admit that when I first picked up this book at the bookstore I was miffed. I had been researching the concept of Guerilla Gardening for an article I was writing for a national gardening magazine; only my definition of the movement was something quite different than this book. I always figured people who anonymously plant herbs, flowers and veggies in vacant lots, abandoned bus stops and crack alleys were urban Johnny Appleseeds hoping to leave something beautiful in an otherwise desolate and depressing area. But author Barbara Pallenberg redefines Guerilla Gardening as a method of obtaining otherwise pricey plants for free. Because I also happen to be a cheapskate, or as I usually like to call myself a frugal gardener, this book still appeals to me; that is once I got beyond the book's title! This is a fun read and I can't get over how useful the info is about how to propogate just about every plant you can thing of. Thanks to the tips and humorous advice in this book my plant plunder pal Sharon and I have managed to already nab a part of a prickly pear cactus that fell inches away from where I'll be taking horticulture classes!

The Genius of Gardening in America-Barbara Pallenberg

The author, Barbara Pallenberg , isextremely talented and weaves her intellectual and family "root system"into an enchantingly delightful wayof ecologically building a castle ofbeauty around your home for the economical price of : "free". What's"not to like" about this book ! Buy itfor a Mother , sister , friend , brother, and one for yourself ! All theother gardening books pale in comparison to this new edition. AnEcological Delight ! Hope to see itand Barbara on many daytime televisionshows. Buy it now !

Creative Landscaping 101

Guerrilla Gardening is everything you have always wanted to know about gardening but were afriad to ask. Breezy and entertaining, this is THE HANDBOOK for adventure and innovation. Want a cutting from Clude Monet's Giverny? Graft a rose from the White House garden? Create an ice-plant meadow from plants by your local telephone easement? To create a free garden from Chelsea to Camelot, Barbara Pallenberg with show and tell all the secrets. Don't let Pallenbergs knock'em dead cover-girl good looks camouflage all the capable information found within these pages. It's really fun.

Creative Landscaping 101

Guerrilla Gardening is everything you have always wanted to know about gardening but were afriad to ask. Breezy and entertaining, this is THE HANDBOOK for adventure and innovation. Want a cutting from Clude Monet's Giverny? Graft a rose from the White House garden? Create an ice-plant meadow from plants by your local telephone easement? From Chelsea to Camelot, Barbara Pallenberg with show and tell all the secrets. Don't let Pallenbergs knock'em dead cover-girl gook looks camouflage all the good information found within the books pages. It's really fun.