Synopses & Reviews
Let Louise Riotte Introduce You to Hundreds of Flowers and All Their Friends (and Enemies, Too!)
Companion planting is simply planning your garden to take advantage of the antural friendships between plants. In Roses Love Garlic you'll discover how flowers help or hinder nearby vegetables and other flowers.
Review
"Fun to read and more interesting than many how to's."
Publishers Weekly
"[Roses Love Garlic] is fascinating and makes interesting and useful reading." Newsday
"Let Louis Riotte introduce you to hundreds of flowers and all their friends (and enemies, too.) Countryside & Small Stock Journal
"...unlocks the secrets of companion gardening as well as other gardening lore."
Butler (Pa.) Eagle
Synopsis
From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden s productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden designs, and includes recipes for using your harvest to make herbal cosmetics, medicinal mixtures, and plant-based dyes. You ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways plants work together as you tend to a thriving and bountiful garden."
Synopsis
Let Louise Riotte Introduce You to Hundreds of Flowers and All Their Friends (and Enemies, Too!)
Companion planting is simply planning your garden to take advantage of the antural friendships between plants. In Roses Love Garlic you'll discover how flowers help or hinder nearby vegetables and other flowers.
Synopsis
This sequel to Carrots Love Tomatoes lists hundreds of herbs and flowers, with information on how their proximity can maximize the health and yield of vegetables, berry bushes, and fruit and nut trees. This edition features a dozen illustrated garden plans. 178,000 copies in print.
Synopsis
This best-selling sequel to Carrots Love Tomatoes lists hundreds of herbs and flowers and explains how to combine them with other plants in the garden to maximize the health and yield of vegetables, berry bushes, and fruit and nut trees.
About the Author
Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Table of Contents
The Wide World of Flowers
1. Flower Lore
2. The Queen of Flowers
3. Enjoying Trees and Shrubs
4. Vines
5. The Life of Plants
6. Which Plants Go Where?
7. Companion Planting with Flowers and Herbs
8. Gardening Tips and Techniques
9. Garden Creatures
10. Growing Wildflowers from Seed
11. Indoor Pleasures
12. Drying Flowers for Lasting Beauty
13. Dyeing with Nature's Colors
14. Cosmetics and Fragrances
15. Traditional Remedies from the World of Plants
16. More Projects from Plant Lovers
17. Plants and People
18. Plants of the North
19. Garden Plans
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