William C. Welch & Greg Grant ; with Cynthia W. Mueller & Jason Powell ; foreword by Felder Rushing
1st ed
College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
c2011
xiv, 537 p.
col. ill. ;
26 cm
AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
Includes index
Revised and expanded edition of: The southern heirloom garden
Exploring our gardening heritage -- The three sisters: Native American influence -- Orange blossoms and Spanish-daggers: Spanish influence -- Formality and order: French influence -- Out of Africa: African influence -- Gardening with nature: English influence -- A garden in a wilderness: German influence -- Classics in the garden: Italian influence -- Plant explorers and timeless treasures: Asian influence -- Rediscovering a wealth of southern heirloom plants -- Natives, invasives, cemeteries, and rustling -- 'Slips and starts': how heirloom plants were increased -- Naturalizing daffodils and other southern bulbs -- The fruitful garden -- Enjoying the bounty -- The right plant in the right place -- Designing your own garden: basic design principles -- Fine-tuning the garden -- Heirloom plants of the South -- How our gardens grew: creating your own garden traditions -- A country cottage garden: fragilee -- A sense of place: Emanis house
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Gardening-- Southern States
Gardens-- Southern States-- Styles-- History
Heirloom varieties (Plants)-- Southern States
Landscape plants-- Heirloom varieties-- Southern States