Synopses & Reviews
Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.
Synopsis
The Carolinas Gardener’s Resource has more than 300 proven plants including water-wise choices. Helpful icons highlight plant benefits and sun and shade requirements. Twelve months of when-to advice for each plant category help Carolina gardeners keep their garden growing. The authors address the challenges of Carolina gardening with water-wise gardening information, and garden-how-tos for planting, pruning, watering and much more. Full-color images for each plant and helpful illustrations and charts make this an easy-to-use resource for all Carolina gardeners.
Synopsis
Co-authored by Jim Wilson and Toby Bost, leading gardening experts from North Carolina and South Carolina, this proven format has helped gardeners experience more success and enjoyment from their gardens.
As gardening continues to grow in popularity, gardeners want more resources to help them succeed. The Gardener's Guide series provides credible information on the plants that perform best in specific states. Gardeners will find information they can trust and use successfully in their own gardens.
Synopsis
The Carolinas Gardener’s Resource is filled with the need-to-know information from popular gardening experts. Each includes their collective wisdom in a complete guide for Carolina gardeners. In addition to hundreds of proven plants, this resource has monthly-to-do calendars for each of more than ten plant categories from annuals to vines. When-to information assists gardeners with the proper care and timing for everything from planting to watering. Advice on gardening with less water address the challenges of gardening in the Carolinas
About the Author
Toby Bost is a native Tar Heel and has spent most of his life gardening in Piedmont clay soil. He was graduated from NC State University where he holds both Bachelor and Master degrees in Horticulture Science. In 2008, Bost retired from NC State's Cooperative Extension after 31 years of distinguished service as an Extension Agent to pursue garden writing and serving in the capacity of a horticulture consultant. During his career he developed educational programs for landscape professionals and was a coordinator of two prominent, urban Master Gardener programs (Forsyth and Durham counties, where he recruited and trained more than 400 EMG volunteers.) He has three book titles to his credit, the most recent, The Carolinas Gardener's Guide, published by Cool Springs Press. Bost has written regular features for Carolina Gardener magazine and The Yadkin Valley Magazine. Currently, he is a Supervisor and vice-chair of the Forsyth Soil and Water Conservation District Board. He owns Bost Consulting Group and is an adjunct horticulture instructor at Forsyth Tech Community College. Bost has received numerous state and national awards from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA); Winston-Salem Appearance Commission, and the coveted Governor's "Order of the Longleaf Pine Award" for public service. Bob Polomski PH.D is widely known and respected for both his down-to-earth gardening expertise and knowledge of the latest technical information.He shares his gardening know-how with gardeners across the Carolinas through numerous print and internet articles, radio broadcasts, and television appearances. Polomski's numerous publications range from scientific papers and extension publications to magazine and newspaper articles. For twelve years he wrote the "Questions & Answers" columnist for Horticulture magazine. He has also published articles in Carolina Gardener, Fine Gardening, American Rose, and American Nurseryman. He appears on television programs devoted to gardening and hosts a biweekly public radio program that’s broadcast statewide with listeners in portions of North Carolina and Georgia. Bob was a contributing writer and a technical editor on many gardening titles, and has authored three regional Month-By-Month books for Cool Springs Press. Attesting to his expertise and communication skills, the author has accumulated many honors, among them First Place National awards from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) for his Anderson Independent-Mail newspaper and SC Farmer magazine columns (2000 and 1998) and radio program (1996), Garden Writers Association of America's Quill & Trowel Award. Jim Wilson has been active in home and commercial horticulture since he graduated University of Missouri in 1948 with a B.S. in agriculture. He has visited home and public gardens in many different countries. In the USA, he has lived and gardened in nine different states. Jim has been named an honorary Master Gardener by the Extension Services of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Oregon and Washington and he was certified a Master Gardener in South Carolina several years ago. Perhaps best known as an author of garden books and a lecturer on several gardening subjects, Jim also spent thirteen years in garden television. He was a co-host on “The Victory Garden”, PBS, and on Home and Garden Television’s “Great Gardeners.” Jim is a Fellow in the Garden Writers Association and a member of its Hall of Fame. He holds the Silver Medal of All-America Selections for lifetime achievement and in 2002 was named a Great American Gardener by the American Horticultural Society. When the downward spiral of the economy began, Jim became concerned that too few people knew how to grow food and has written a book advocating food gardening during recession years. This is Jim’s fourteenth garden book since 1990.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Gardening in the Carolinas
Each plant category includes a full-color plant profile of each proven plant. Twelve months of Around the Garden maintenance advice, companion planting, problem-solving and care information.
1. Annuals
2. Perennials
3. Bulbs, Corms, Tubers & Rhizomes
4. Edibles
5. Groundcovers and Ornamental Grasses
6. Lawn Grasses
7. Roses
8. Shrubs
9. Vines
10. Trees