[PDF] Flowers Native To The Deep South eBook

Author : Alfred Richardson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Plants
ISBN : 160344680X

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A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species Covering the almost three million acres of southernmost Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, this user-friendly guide is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas. Alfred Richardson and Ken King offer abundant photographs and short descriptions of more than eight hundred species of ferns, algae, and woody and herbaceous plants--two-thirds of the species that occur in this region. "Plants of Deep South Texas" opens with a brief introduction to the region and an illustrated guide to leaf shapes and flower parts. The book's individual species accounts cover: Leaves Flowers Fruit Blooming period Distribution Habits Common and scientific names In addition, the authors' comments include indispensible information that cannot be seen in a photograph, such as the etymology of the scientific name, the plant's use by caterpillars and its value from the human perspective. The authors also provide a glossary of terms, as well as an appendix of butterfly and moth species mentioned in the text.

Author : Nellie Neal
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1591865859

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What to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year.

Author : Sally Wasowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1493038818

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In today’s South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast “new” palette of plant materials—native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore easier to grow and maintain, than most of the imported plants that populate traditional landscapes. In this book, the authors offer an exciting vision of the many possibilities and advantages of “going native.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 gorgeous color photographs, this book is both an introduction to more than 200 of the most familiar and easiest-to-find native plants of the South and a basic primer on how to use them effectively.

Author : Katherine S. White
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807085592

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Now in paperback, the book critics and readers have hailed as a remarkable story of friendship, inspired by gardening Renowned New Yorker editor Katharine White and Southern garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence began a correspondence in 1958 that lasted until Katharine White's death in 1977. These letters, edited and introduced by Emily Herring Wilson, bring to life the unique friendship between two intelligent women, both avid gardeners and legendary writers. More than 150 letters went back and forth during the course of their near-20-year correspondence, though Katharine and Elizabeth would meet face-to-face only once. Whether talking about their gardens or books, friends or family, each held a special place in the other's life. Illustrated with photographs of both Katharine White and Elizabeth Lawrence, their families, gardens, and houses, Two Gardeners is a special treat for gardeners, literature lovers, and anyone who delights in reading about women's friendships. Emily Herring Wilson is a writer, lecturer, and novice gardener living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Author of two previous books, she is currently writing a biography of Elizabeth Lawrence.

Author : Thomas Ellsworth Hemmerly
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820321646

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This informative field guide covers the wildflowers of the entire Appalachian region, which stretches from Quebec to northern Alabama, encompassing the Catskills of New York, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and many mountain ranges in between. Using this book, readers will learn to identify this region's wildflowers by shape, color, family, and habitat. Ecologist and botanist Thomas E. Hemmerly encourages us to "read the landscape" in order to learn about plants' habitats, distribution, and use. In his brief, introductory chapters, he describes ecosystems such as mountain forests and wetlands to provide a context for the information on individual plant species that will be valuable to both professional scientists and amateur naturalists. Practical: The 378 color plates, grouped by color for clear reference, appear alongside plant descriptions for ease of identification.Informative: Each entry includes a description of the plant's habitat, abundance, and geographical distribution, along with information about its ethnobotanical, economic, or medicinal uses. An appendix lists and describes the best places in the Appalachians for "botanizing."User-Friendly: Diagrams of leaf and flower shapes are a further aide to plant identification.The Appalachian Region: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

Author : Norman Winter
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Gardening
ISBN :

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Featuring a guide to U.S. planting zones, a color wheel to help gardeners create dramatic effects, and a photograph of each of the 200 flowers discussed in the book, "Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South" takes the guesswork out of choosing annuals, perennials, bulbs, grasses, and vines that all grow well in Dixie.

Author : Neil G. Odenwald
Publisher : Claitor's Law Books and Publishing
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : 159804317X

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Highlighting more than 1,000 plants--from trees and shrubs to vines and grasses--this updated edition of Odenwald and Turners guide keeps with a traditional emphasis on the practical use of plants to solve and prevent landscape design problems.

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1941
Category :
ISBN : 1623760011

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Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Alabama. Sponsored by the Alabama State Planning Commission.