Plantiful : start small, grow big with 150 plants that spread, self-sow, and overwinter / Kristin Green.

A bountiful garden is easy to create, and gardeners can save big by choosing plants that grow quickly and spread vigorously. This book is filled with a colorful palette of plants that self-sow, spread from their roots, and outlast our seasonal expectations. You'll find simple lessons on propagatin...

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Main Author: Green, Kristin
Language:English
Published: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2014.
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Physical Description:222 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Start small, grow big with 150 plants that spread, self-sow, and overwinter.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Gardening with a generous nature : some ground rules
  • How plants grow
  • Opportunistic or invasive?
  • Making the most of your garden
  • Self-sowers : the price is right
  • Guide to serendipity : taking editorial control
  • Start a seed collection
  • Propagation : sow it grows
  • 50 faithful volunteers
  • Plants that spread : when a little goes a long way
  • Guide to abundance : reuse, replant, repeat
  • Propagation : easy pieces
  • 50 thrilling fillers
  • Frost-tender plants : push the zone
  • Guide to optimism : plan ahead and save for later
  • Propagation : beg a cutting
  • Overwintering : in from the cold
  • 50 come-back keepers
  • In sum.