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Beautiful at All Seasons : Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence /

A collection of gardening columns by Elizabeth Lawrence that were published in her column ""The Garden Gate"" which appeared weekly in the Charlotte Observer.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wilson, Lindie (Editor ), Armstrong, Ann L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One. Seasonal Flowers. Garden resolutions
  • Flowers for Christmas time
  • Flowers greet the new year
  • Winter flowers
  • The green winter
  • A hard winter
  • Bamboo
  • Storm damage
  • The merry month of May
  • Tender perennials for hot-weather gardens
  • Flowers in the fall border
  • Fragrance in the garden
  • Fall additions to the border
  • Sow hardy annual seeds during September
  • Planting annuals in autumn
  • Late-blooming flowers
  • Two. Perennials and annuals. Planting in relays
  • Badge of gardening includes black knees
  • Gardening surprises
  • The law of supply and demand
  • Variegated foliage
  • Selections for the rock garden
  • Tropical plants
  • Annuals
  • Sweet peas
  • Peony
  • Tree peonies and others
  • Clematis also flowers in shade
  • Beautiful lilies
  • Asteromoea mongolica, Kalimeris pinnatifida
  • Hellebores
  • The Christmas Rose and other Hellebores
  • Giridlian, a master of plants
  • Night-blooming cereus
  • The dividends of fall planting
  • Savannah lands of East Carolina
  • Petasites
  • Three. Bulbs, corms, and tubers. Planting bulbs, corms, and tubers
  • Bulbs through the seasons
  • Some early spring bulbs
  • Daffodils need early start
  • Specialty bulbs
  • Crown imperials
  • Lycoris radiata
  • Amaryllis family
  • The surprise lily
  • Lilies grow where none were
  • Garden casualties
  • Four. Trees and shrubs
  • Planting for ice storms
  • Plants for parking strips
  • Flowering trees for the city
  • Street trees
  • Threes with colored bark
  • Witch hazels
  • Flowering cherries
  • Serviceberries and sloes
  • Dogwoods
  • Buckeyes
  • Eucalyptus
  • Honey locust
  • Osmanthus
  • Hollies
  • Conifers
  • Firs and cedars
  • Flowering shrubs
  • March-flowering shrubs
  • Viburnums and other flowering shrubs
  • June-flowering shrubs
  • Viburnums
  • Pyracanthas
  • Hydrangeas
  • Sasanquas
  • Camellia saluenensis
  • E.A. Bowles's lunatics
  • Five. Vegetables and herbs, climbers and creepers
  • Fall vegetables
  • Two vegetable gardens
  • Mrs. Hobbs and her herbs
  • Sweet woodruff
  • Dandelions
  • Vines are useful tools
  • Smilax
  • Clematis hybrids
  • Akebia and Rosa banksiae
  • Ground covers
  • Ground covers pose problems
  • Tiny creepers
  • Six. Gardeners and gardens
  • Wing haven
  • Importance of garden details
  • Steps in your garden
  • Walks and paths
  • Terraces and patios
  • Water in the garden
  • Mr. Krippendorf's garden
  • Physic garden at the Country Doctor Museum
  • Mr. Busbee's garden
  • A visit to Italy's oldest botanic garden
  • Colette's mother's garden
  • The splendor of Royal Gardens
  • Gotelli's collection of dwarf conifers
  • The scented garden
  • The gardens of soldier's wife
  • Pioneer seedsmen
  • Young Belgian guided Southern horticulture
  • Meet Caroline Dormon
  • She talks to the birds
  • The Hunt Arboretum
  • Seven. Gods, legends, and rituals
  • The gods of the garden
  • The ash, a symbol in history
  • The tale of the magical hawthorn tree
  • The Holy Thorn blooms for royalty
  • The Christian year parallels the garden year
  • Holiday wreaths
  • The advent wreath
  • Legend and lore of the Christmas tree
  • International Christmas trees
  • The flowers of the Trinity
  • The flowers of the passiontide
  • The story of the Passion Flower
  • Rituals of the palms
  • Rogation days, the blessing of the crips
  • Eight. Bits and pieces
  • Asafetica
  • Feeding the birds
  • Honey
  • Organic gardening
  • Pruning
  • Pruning should be done every day
  • Historic flower arrangements
  • Bouquet carried messages
  • Pmanders
  • Creatures add to a garden.