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Native Florida Plants: Low-Maintenance Landscaping and Gardening by Robert G. Haehle, Joan Brookwell
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colorful, photo-packed guide helps you select Florida-born plants right
for you and your area -- no ill-suited, high-maintenance exotics here.
You'll find complete profiles on every type of hardy native plant from
seaside foliage to wildflowers and grasses, shrubs, vines, and even
aquatics. It just makes sense to use plants that already thrive in the
Sunshine State.
This attractive and newly updated book
shows 281 native plants in beautiful full-color photos. Landscapes and
gardens using these natives are easier to maintain, use less water,
thrive without chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and provide a haven
for wildlife. You're sure to be inspired by the representative
landscape designs suited for city, country, and freshwater or seaside
locations. Add a few native plants to your landscape, create a native
garden or water garden, and bring on the butterflies. From the Publisher.
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Landscaping for Florida's Wildlife-In
a clear, step-by-step format this book tells how to create a
wildlife-friendly landscape that takes into account both people and
nature. The authors' theme- "put back what you don't need" - allows the
gardener to reduce maintenance costs while providing a habitat that
offers wildlife the essentials of food, cover, water, and space.by
Robert G. Haehle, Joan Brookwell |
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Your Florida Landscape-This
full-color eco-friendly guide to landscaping in Florida discusses
trees, palms, shrubs, ground covers, and vines as well as the use of
mulches and compost. Additional problem-solving sections tackle soils
fertilizers, pruning,weeds, netamodes, plant diseases, and coping with
cold weather. |
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Woody Ornamentals for Deep South Gardens
"The
definitive handbook and guide to garden trees and shrubs. Take it with
you to the nursery." David Gibson, University of West Florida
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Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants-From
colorful container plants to multi-level landscaping designs, this
full-color, beautifully illstrated book will help make all your outdoor
projects a success. Learn how to:
- design attractive beds with easy to follow landscape designs
- choose plants appropriate for your area in Florida
- place and use over 70 plants with an at-a-glance reference
- garden successfully in coastal areas
- create hanging-basket, frangrance, and cutting gardens
- prevent and cope with plant pests and diseases
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What more can you say about a book that features an overweight Elvis impersonator with plastic lawn flamingos on the cover? Garish Gardens Outlandish Lawns
gives a wacky tour of the landscapes that will never make it between
the covers of Home and Garden. Don't miss the manatee, gator and
dolphin mail boxes from Broward County and the Keys or the Rumquist
house in Safety Harbor, Florida. |
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The Florida Lawn Handbook-Writtten
in practical language by turfgrass experts, this new edition is
completely up-to-date and contains the most recent lawn management
information. Color plates identify varios grass types, weeds, diseases,
and insects-including those that are good for your lawn. Chapters cover
the following: fertilizers, lawn maintenance, sprinkling, weed and
thatch control, winter management and more. |
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Your Florida Guide to Shrubs-No
other book offers such colorful, complete, and reliable information
about all aspects of the shrubs and small trees that thrive in the
Florida landscape. Writing for everyone from the homeowner with limited
gardening skills to the landscape professional or property manager,
this book guides the reader through the practical steps involved in
selecting and maintaining appropriate and healthy shrubs for all
landscape uses. The authors cover · climatic and light requirements, ·
environmental considerations, · bed design and preparation, · when to
plant, · plant size, · when and how to water, · mulching and pruning, ·
maintaining shrubs without wasting natural resources. In addition to
discussing exotic shrubs, this book describes how to use the abundant
Florida native plants that have been all but ignored by other landscape
and gardening books. It also includes a zone hardiness map and an
illustrated shrub selection guide. The authors note that almost anyone
can do a mediocre landscaping job with shrubs. By using this book, you
make the decision to do a great job the right way! |
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