Title:
Our life in gardens / Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd ; illustrations by Bobbi Angell.
ISBN:
9780374160319
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Physical Description:
xi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Setting out -- Agapanthus -- Annuals -- Arborvitae -- Artichokes -- Bananas -- The bay tree -- Berberis -- Biennials -- Boxwood -- Camellias -- Colchicum -- Corydalis -- Cyclamen -- The daffodil meadow -- Forcing branches -- The garden trowel -- Gentians -- Hardiness -- Hedges -- Hellebores -- Ilex -- Leucojum -- Lilacs -- Magnolias -- Native groundcovers -- Nerines -- Pea season -- The pergola walk -- Poppies -- Pots -- Primroses -- Prunus 'Hally Jolivette' -- Prunus mume -- Rampant plants -- The rock garden and planted walls -- Roses -- Sempervivums -- Snowdrops -- Sorbus alnifolia -- Stewartias -- Summer-blooming bulbs -- Tender rhododendrons -- Time -- Vegetable gardens -- Violets -- Willows -- Wisteria -- Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata -- The future.
Summary:
Renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd provide information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, discussing the various parts of their garden and particular plants--roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen--and vegetables. Discusses the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its eventual decline and demise.
Subject Term:
Added Author:
OCLC Number:
ocn265087442
Availability:
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