About this title: Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book - "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden" - is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. "50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants" is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy's own gardening ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TIMBER PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 168 pages. Contains useful tips, practical hints, and the author's own gardening experience. this title features the author's personal favorites, chosen after years of studying how to make beautiful outdoor spaces with a minimum of maintenance. each plant has characteristics such as: multi-season interest; colorful foliage; and long-lasting blooms. 141 color photos (Paperback) read more
Description: Like New. 2009-Paperback-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Timber Press
Date Published: 1/7/2009
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
Description: Good. 0881929506 Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Light shelf wear to cover from storage, bruise/crease/markings to back cover. --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small blue ink stamp on bottom/exterior edge of pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
Description: New. DiSabato-Aust's first book, "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, " has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her latest work identifies 50 show-stopping plants that anyone can grow. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Timber Pr
Date Published: 2009-01-07
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Timber Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
Description: New. Contains useful tips, practical hints, and the author's own gardening experience. This title features the author's personal favorites, chosen after years of studying how to make beautiful outdoor spaces with a minimum of maintenance. Each plant has ch... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Timber Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780881929508ISBN:0881929506
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"I planted a Rosa rugosa 'Hansa' this year based on the recommendation in this book.
I am particularly intrigued by the recommendation of the 'Ogon' dawn redwood. If everyone planted one, it would dramatically transform the landscape of many locations.
This is a valuable book. It makes specific recommendations, and lays out the logical case for those recommendations.
"Review: 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants: Tough-but-Beautiful Plants Anyone Can Grow by Tracy Disabato-Aust
As a novice gardener, I am drawn to gardening books with a judicious mix of beautiful pictures and helpful advice. This book caught me with its opening:
I wrote this book because you might be like me. You love to garden, but there is never enough time...I've been a gardener for over thirty years both as an avocation and vocation. I love gardening but I also have countless other passions including spending time with my husband, our teenage son, and our dogs and chickens, as well as being a competitive multisport athlete at the national and international level. So I'm constantly rethinking areas of my garden and seeking beautiful yet tough plants to replace demanding ones. I refer to them affectionately as indomitable - not easily defeated, resolute, unconquerable, determined, and strong. Does this sound like the type of plant for you? These plants should be easy to care for but they should bring passion and excitement into our lives with their colors, textures, shapes, and scents. It's great if the plant is easy to grow, but if it's of minimal ornamental value, who really cares? -50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants by Tracy Disabato-Aust
Disabato-Aust selected 50 highly ornamental plants that require minimal care and are either US natives or award winners from around the world. Each plant is able to make a statement in multiple seasons because of its long lasting bloom, color, texture, form or fragrance. I'm particularly glad of this selection process since as an urban gardener, I am limited to container gardening. Even in Brooklyn, space is scarce and valuable - I afford to allocate space to non-performing plants.
Disabato-Aust points out that color doesn't just come from the blossoms, but to encourages us to look at the plant's bark and foliage and fruit as well. The book is full of helpful advice both for selecting plants and for caring for individual specimens.
Disabato-Aust developed a very useful checklist for evaluating plants and divides them into High-Impact Traits and Low-Maintenance Traits.
The High-Impact Traits are: (1) multi-season interest; (2) colorful foliage; (3) long-lasting bloom; (4) outstanding texture; (5) and architectural form.
The Low-Maintenance Traits are: (1) long-lived; (2) tolerant of heat and humidity; (3) cold-hardy; (4) deer resistant (not so critical for us urban gardeners); (5) resistant to insects and disease; (6) requires minimal or no deadheading; (7) prospers without heavy fertilizing; (8) doesn't require staking, infrequent or no division required for 4 or more years; (9) infrequent or no pruning required to maintain decent habit, appearance or best flowering; (10) non-invasive; and (11) drought tolerant.
The beauty of this gardening book is that you can flip through its pages for a plant that catches your eye and then determine whether it would be a fit for your and your garden. I was surprised to find many of the beautiful specimens that I'd admired to be low maintenance and the book has given me ideas for both for my garden, my mother's small garden unit in Boston's South End, and my uncle's large place in Gloucester.
I highly recommend this book for urban gardeners, novice gardeners, and gardeners who would like to spend less time tending plants and more time enjoying them. It's a great gift book as well."
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