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Essential Perennials

April 8, 2015 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

We’re excited about our friends’ invaluable new book, Essential Perennials.

“ The long-awaited update of a classic guide to perennials!”

—P. Allen Smith, award-winning gardening expert, author, and TV host

“ Finally, a guide to navigating the staggering possibilities among perennials.”

—Margaret Roach, awaytogarden.com

Perennials are the mainstay of any garden. But how do you choose from the thousands available, and care for the ones you already have? Essential Perennials is the complete reference for any gardener looking to make smart plant choices for a garden that blooms for years to come.

Trusted experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher help you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and thrive in the conditions you can provide. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.

Essential Perennials: The Complete Reference
to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden
By Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher
Photographs by Alan L. Detrick & Linda Detrick
ISBN: 9781604693164

Landscape for Life — Based on the principles of the Sustainable Sites Initiative

November 9, 2010 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

Landscape for Life — Based on the principles of the Sustainable Sites Initiative – Annotated
- Landscape For Life is based on the principles of The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™), the nation’s first rating system for sustainable landscapes. SITES offers technical tools for professionals who design, construct, operate, and maintain landscapes of all sizes. Landscape For Life presents this information in an easy-to-understand form that homeowners and gardeners can use themselves.

Roy Diblik: Champion of natives and influential plantsman

August 6, 2010 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

Roy Diblik: Champion of natives and influential plantsman
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    St. Charles (Kane, Illinois)
    
    Geneva (Swiss Confederation)
    
    Morton Arboretum
    
    Missouri
    
    Lake Geneva
    
    Millennium Park
    
    Art Institute of Chicago
chicagotribune.com – (via Garden Writers Today)
- …project by project, plant by plant, Diblik, 57, has become one of the most original, sophisticated and influential plantsmen in the Midwest.
- If you have visited the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (luriegarden.org), you’ve seen plants he grew from seed. If you have been to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer and strolled by the Louis Sullivan Stock Exchange Arch, you’ve seen how he puts plants together. If you’ve gambled at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, you’ve seen a site where he combines native plants in a stylized way.
- If you have visited his Northwind Perennial Farm (northwindperennialfarm.com) in Burlington, Wis., near Lake Geneva, you have seen a display garden where perennials artfully intermingle, playing against rich stonework, sparked by lively sculpture.

Sydney Eddison:Gardening for a Lifetime:How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older

April 1, 2010 by Duncan Brine 2 Comments

Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older from Timber Press

Sydney lives just over yonder in Ct. It has been a real pleasure to meet her in her garden and greet her here. Her authorial voice is as direct and encouraging as she is in person. She writes with wisdom and experience. Are you looking for anything more?
- Gardening for a Lifetime is a touching memoir about having to scale back after widowhood and painful joints made it impossible to keep up with a large country garden.
- Eddison has written an encouraging road map for accepting and embracing a new and simpler way of gardening.
- Sydney Eddison has written six other books on gardening. For her work as a writer, gardener, and lecturer, she received the Connecticut Horticultural Society’s Gustav A. L. Melquist Award in 2002; the New England Wild Flower Society’s Kathryn S. Taylor Award in 2005; and in 2006, The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut’s Bronze Medal.

Natural-Landscaping: Lorrie Otto, founder of Wild Ones

April 1, 2010 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

Local News | Bellingham woman is a warrior against pesticides, an advocate for nature | Seattle Times Newspaper
- To Lorrie Otto, the manicured expanse of green surrounding most homes is the root of environmental evil she’s spent decades trying to stamp out.
- She founded Wild Ones, a natural-landscaping advocacy group in Wisconsin, of which she’s still a board member. And she continues to be an advocate for natural landscaping and protecting the Earth.
- When Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” came out in 1962, documenting the damage chemical pesticides did to birds’ eggs and criticizing government officials for unquestioningly accepting chemical-company propaganda, Otto’s campaign against DDT got a boost.
- “When my husband came home with a New Yorker under his arm and said they were serializing ‘Silent Spring,’ I remember dancing around the house thinking: Now everyone will know about DDT,” Otto said.
- “I was just one person,” she says. “Yet, I was the catalyst.”