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| .A brace of
books from each of two very articulate men who have learned much from their
gardens. |
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| .Great garden photography.
From where do they come? And two herbals, one modern and local, the other
an old classic. |
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| .Hortus 3rd is THE reference
for nomenclature.
Loqueris
latine? Do you speak Latin?* And the origin and meaning of plant
names.
*Most will respond, "Non loquor latine",
"I do not speak Latin." |
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| .Ideas for the dry garden,
flowers best admired by moonlight and the old gardens and heirloom plants
of early America. And all about garden troughs - for herbs, succulents,
bulbs, etc. |
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| .The huge compendium of
solutions to garden problems. Name that weed. Concrete solutions
for ornamental desires. |
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| .Go, ye therefore, be fruitful
and multiply. And what do you do with the excess propagations?
Why, you start a nursery! |
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| .Tropical fruits appropriate
for the subtropics of Texas - avocado
& citrus.
And, the last word on Cannas
- gaudy and garish - yet glad to have them. |
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| .I bamboozle you not.
Every landscape should have at least one kind of bamboo. |
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| .One
more on bamboo,
two about ornamental grasses and an authoritative handbook on caring for
bermudagrass. |
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| .Landscape
Design101,
plus three excellent books for southern gardeners. |
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| .Hi, my name is Manuel.
I have an addiction. I have a thing for tropical plants. My
tropical delusions have cost me thousands of dollars. That's why
I've joined this 12 step program. |
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| .A
rose
by any other name ... |
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palm-like plants, cycads,
and yet more cycads. |
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| .Some Yankee organic techniques
to extrapolate for Texas conditions. The old is back in style.
Have you lost your gourd? |
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| .Learn to live off the land!
Be productive. Peppers
are hot now - in restaurants and in gardens. |
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| .Forget
the cow skulls and rusty wagon wheels - desert gardens are beautiful.
You call them Amaryllis,
I call them Hippeastrum - many of these bulbs thrive in our zone. |
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| .Angel's
trumpets
Gabriel never played. Complete guides to crepe
myrtles, oaks
and salvias. |
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