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Designing with Flowers
Tricia Guild
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ASIN: 0517559420
Release Date: 1986-12-13 |
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“The award-winning gardening author and perennials expert addresses plant selection, use and placement, color and foliage effects, and ground cover options.”—Library Journal. “Offering sound guidelines on siting and sample garden plans...features advice on how to use versatile plants in the garden. A chapter on color, providing time-tested combinations that work well in common zones, is also included.”—American Nurseryman.
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Favorite old varieties of plants are a lot like old friends: easy-going, dependable, and enduring. Even with all of the dazzling new flowers that appear every spring in catalogs and garden centers, most gardeners still treasure those time-honored plants that have proven their worth over many years and earned an abiding place in our hearts.
Heirloom Flower Gardens celebrates more than 300 classic ornamental plants, and explores their uses in the landscape and the home. This charming and influential book is now back in print, and even better than before. It features more than 25 additional plant portraits, as well as expanded information on growing, landscaping, and preserving flowers and herbs for culinary and craft use. Other new sections provide information on creating period plantings and designing specialty or theme gardens.
Author JoAnn Gardner defines the word "heirloom" broadly, and includes a wide variety of plants—flowers, herbs, shrubs, and vines—that were introduced to North America between 1600 and the 1950s. All of them have a simplicity and elegance that make them valuable additions to the home landscape. Most are also known for their hardiness and undemanding natures. Sections on growing under each plant portrait give specific instructions that will ensure success.
Even the common names of these plants sound poetic and evocative, from the airy foliage of love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) to the delightfully descriptive flower known as policeman's-helmet (Impatiens glandulifera). From foxglove to primrose, bee balm to sneezewort, these heirloom flowers offer a living link to our rich garden heritage, and they exhibit a grace and beauty that never grows old.
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Find out how to use beloved, classic plants in fresh ways with the help of this photo-filled garden guide. Plant fragrant thyme around a walkway, add a pretty trellis of multicolored sweet peas to a vegetable garden, and train climbing roses over an arch for a romantic entranceway. Your garden will be beautiful.
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Excellent reference book.......2006-07-13
This book has some truly excellent information. It has many detailed pages about how to grow, harvest dry and store flowers using a variety of techniques. The rest of the book is taken up with an encyclopedia of different flowers what they are best used for, how to dry them, how well they stand up and everything else you need to know about the plant.
It is divided into sections on annuals, perennials, trees, wild plants so it takes a little looking around to find what you want. If you are interested in growing and drying your own flowers this is the book you need. If you want a book on creating designs with the flowers this is not the book. It has a few designs but that is not it's primary focus. Consider this as an essential part of your library to complement the arrangement books.
My only complaint is that the index is not as comprehensive as it could be. Sometimes you have to page through the book to find the plant you want even if you do know the latin name.
I think this is a good beginner's book........2000-05-05
I checked this book out of my local library and found some very helpful information. There is quite a bit of information on the history, planting, and care of various everlasting flowers.
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Already known and appreciated for his books on borders and Sissinghurst, Tony Lord reveals yet another area of expertise here in Designing with Roses. A homage to "the queen of flowers," this is also a plea for an end to its misuse, with Lord demonstrating its versatility in borders or pots, on walls and fences, alone or in main or supporting roles. These sweeping concepts are then fleshed out with detailed information on shape, color, scent, foliage, immunity levels, form, and flowering times. He writes for a worldwide audience, taking into account local climates and native plants, and his attention to detail continues beyond the plants themselves. When he looks at pergolas, for instance, he is informative about possible sites, materials, proportions, and construction.
Designing with Roses's well-researched, flowing prose is interspersed with the author's own stunning photographs. It will captivate readers of all levels of expertise, to whom Lord throws out a general challenge to develop a practical aesthetic of roses that balances design with nature. Finally, the bibliography, international list of nurseries, explanation of zones, and invaluable list of strain characteristics leave the reader full of inspiration and equipped with the tools for pursuing the dream. --Fiona Murphy
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Graceful in habit and lush in bloom, with a sumptuous variety of color and scent, roses are perhaps the most pleasing element in any garden. In Designing with Roses, the remarkable versatility of these plants is at last fully explored. Whether in a mixed border or a pot, a flower garden or kitchen plot, an urban terrace or a rural expanse, Tony Lord dramatically illustrates the rose's potential as an elegant climber, screen, enclosure, and container plant. Offering a careful explanation of the cultural requirements of roses in every situation, he provides expert advice on the optimum methods of planting, feeding, pruning, and spraying. Completing the book are a detailed directory of the best rose varieties for each purpose and site as well as a list of suitable companion plants. A welcome, long-overdue contribution to gardening literature. Tony Lord is an award-winning photographer and horticultural consultant; his previous books include Best Borders and Gardening at Sissinghurst.
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Gorgeous, Interesting, Inspiring,.......2005-02-02
Lord is a consummate garden photographer, and here we will find many of his best rose photos. For roses one would use in the landscape, this may be the best source of photos.
In this book he takes us through a kind of history of the way roses have been used in gardens. The nice thing about a history such as this is that we get introduced to a number of old design ideas which today may be out of favor. In some cases they are out of favor for very good reasons - as Lord explains: After WW1 the cost of labor went up significantly. One could no longer afford to have a gardener spend half a day training a long-caned rose onto an onion shaped frame. Yet even the oddest of the old ideas will frequently suggest some interesting or useful contemporary practice.
Of the gardening books I own - about 15 shelf feet of them - this may be the one I have spent most time with just reading through. This is high praise, indeed.
Any person who wishes to integrate roses into the design of a garden would do well to read this book. It has a lot to say on garden structure and how various roses occupy the diverse structural niches in a garden.
It even explains why Christopher Lloyd eschews the rose at his world famous gardens at Great Dixter. Now that is something that every person planning a rose garden must read and understand.
The garden: it's not just a bed or roses. Lord helps us understand this.
Not just pretty pictures.......2002-10-27
This book has a lot of gorgeous 'rose porn' photographs, but the text is also very informative and gives good, specific suggestions for maximizing the beauty of roses in the landscape. I was able to get ideas on how to incorporate roses in beds of mixed perennials in a sophisticated way. I found the section on the history of the use of roses also very interesting.
Beautiful book.......1999-11-02
This is a wonderful book with gorgeous color photographs of rose gardens that will make you drool. Although most of the gardens are in England, any gardener can gets ideas from this book. It is basically a "coffee table" type book and is one that you can get lost in on a rainy day. I would highly recommend it!
If you love rose-gardening...this is a must-have publication.......1999-06-17
I received an advance copy of Tony Lord's new book, "Designing with Roses". Besides being a wonderful rose feast for the eyes this 185 page book has some great ideas for various types of gardens and gardening techniques. This versatile offering has chapters lovingly decorated with lush photography of 'Roses for Structure', 'Roses as Punctuation', 'Roses in Mixed Borders' and 'Roses for Wild Gardens'. At the very end of the book is a wonderful listing of roses for special purposes that Mr. Lord describes as Pick of the Bunch. Here is a marvelous grouping of roses for ground covers, bush roses (short & tall), shrub roses, climbing, roses for arcades, pergolas, and catenaries, roses for autumn color, roses for bedding,roses for colored foliage, roses for conservatories, roses for cutting, roses for fences, roses for fragrance, roses for hedges, roses for pillars, roses for shade, roses for standards, and more. Thirteen pages of detailed information listing color, hardiness zone and class. Roses that have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as plants of excellence and easy culture are also indicated. In 185 pages I counted only about 10 pages that didn't have at least one picture on them. There are many double pages of photography that makes you feel as if your face was pressed against a window looking out into a wonderland of roses. Breathtaking close-up photography makes you think you can actually smell these beauties. The Pick of the Bunch alone makes this book a worthy addition to any roseaholic's library. If you are a Consulting Rosarian, these lists make it a lot easier to suggest roses for special purposes when you are asked by other rose growers.
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Designing With Bulbs (The Joy of Gardening)
Richard Rosenfeld
Manufacturer: Courage Books
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Designing With Climbers (The Joy of Gardening)
Richard Rosenfeld
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Climbers Galore.......2000-05-01
A beautifully photographed subject, the text provides outstanding detail on different plant varieties in addition to general information on climbers--growing them and sustaining them. The book is organized by types of climbers and I will say it expanded my thinking about climbers and their uses. An excellent three pages on care and cultivation, with pruning diagrams. Those might just be worth the price of the book itself. The downside is that it is not area specific and I wonder which of those in the book are either available or suitable for southern California.
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When students take ownership of their education they take personal responsibility to do something meaningful and positive to change their lives.
With ownership comes dignity and self-respect. Teaching students how to set and achieve realistic goals will make a significant, long-term difference in performance in the classroom, in the workplace, and in life.
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help students in grades 5 - 12 to succeed.......2007-05-09
A workbook designed to help students in grades 5 - 12 to succeed, with a goal of changing lives, "Goal Setting for Students" is a must have for every teacher, troop leader, tutor and parent. If every educator utilized this program we would have a future filled with successful, responsible adults.
In eight chapters John Bishop has created a tool for helping students in understanding success, goal setting, stretching goals, positive attitude, taking responsibility, the value of determination, managing time and keeping goals in mind. In each chapter are key words and lessons on each topic, activities for the individual and for the class, home activities and reviews. All of this is presented in a concise and easy to follow format and written in such a way as to encourage the student's interest. Each page is eye-catching and interesting, certainly not boring nor childish but aimed at this precise age group.
Teachers will easily find ways to integrate this program into their lesson plans, and find that it does not take up time, but rather will help save valuable class time and alleviate frustrations. Students will come away from the program with a new attitude toward goals and responsibility. Through "real world examples" students are given something to think about in regards to the chapter topic that they can relate to and will set them thinking of their own dreams and goals. Famous quotes and proverbs are found throughout the book lending additional points to ponder, such as this one from Mahatma Ghandi, "Real education consists of drawing the best out of you."
"Goal Setting for Students" will help draw the best out of the students you know.
Teachers! Parents! A Helpful Tool For Nearly Every Child.......2005-07-26
I'd rate it with more stars if I could.
Goal Setting for Students is a nice, 68 page book that will help every parent get his or her child started on goals and achievement. The layout is simple and easy-to-read, and each chapter offers questions, with do-able and interesting activities, plus a final review at the end to recap what was taught. The book encourages children and teens (the book is for 5-12 graders) to invest in themselves, and why.
I tutor kids in my home (though I don't have children of my own), and can't wait to show this guide to parents. If your child seems "lost" or is not achieving on a level you'd like them to, this book is a great place to start.
What a valuable yet inexpensive investment!
John Bishop has zeroed in on a problem with kids--they have no purpose and no direction.
Parents: Goal Setting for Students will help you to help your child.
Teachers: Goal Setting for Students will help you to help your students.
Even though the age range is for students in grades 5-12, if you have younger students or children, I'd buy it anyway. The tools in here are great for almost any age.
What a legacy to leave your children: success and direction
My son Jeremy's review.......2005-06-15
One thing I learned is how to be successful and what success is.
An ideal motivational tool for any student.......2004-02-07
Goal Setting For Students is an effective educational tool for teaching young people how to focus on specific goals in order to increase their chances of academic success. Ideal for any school curriculum, as well as home-school instructors and/or self-study, this consumable workbook is filled from cover to cover with diverse activities to reinforce its message of working for whatever needs to be achieved. From learning how to set realistic goals; to measuring academic progress; to walk-through examples, and more, Goal Setting For Students is an ideal motivational tool for any student regardless of academic subject matter.
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Baruti, whose name is an African name meaning teacher, earned his B.S. degree in Management/Marketing from Kean College of New Jersey in 1986, and his M.A. degree in Urban Education /Admistration for Jersey City State College in 1996. Baruti knows what goal setting is all about. He is a proven authority on the subject. He says that in order achiev your goals, you need an organized, systematic plan. In this short book, he provides us with just that.
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Language Intervention for School-Age Students is your working manual for helping children with language learning disabilities (LLD) gain the tools they need to succeed in school. Going beyond the common approach to language disorders in school-age populations, this innovative resource supplements a theoretical understanding of language intervention with a wealth of practical application strategies you can use to improve learning outcomes for children and adolescents with LLD. Well-referenced discussions with real-life examples promote evidence-based practice. Case histories and treatment strategies help you better understand student challenges and develop reliable methods to help them achieve their learning goals.
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Student Success System
Manufacturer: The Memory Training Institute
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3-ring binder contains: 6 cassetes, lesson planner and workbook. This program has helped individuals and entire families learn, grow, and unfold more of their true potential. Transform your grades, self confidence and direction in life. Learn proven study stchniques that can dramatically boost grades, as well as learn a powerful combination of success skills that assist you in every aspect of life. Skills like goal setting, time management, positive attitude and motivation, coupled with accelerated learning techniques.
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This digital document is an article from Reclaiming Children and Youth, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2679 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Assessment and goal-setting with the Circle of Courage.
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Date: September 22, 2005
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CBM with goal setting: impacting students' understanding of reading goals. : An article from: Journal of Instructional Psychology
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Title: CBM with goal setting: impacting students' understanding of reading goals.
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Title: The Effects of Two Goal-Setting Conditions end Three Levels of Self-Efficacy on Children's Performance on a Selected Fitness Task.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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Everyday study skills: start the year off right by helping students learn to set goals, prioritize, and stay organized.(STUDY SKILLS ACTIVITIES) : An article from: Instructor (1990)
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Title: Everyday study skills: start the year off right by helping students learn to set goals, prioritize, and stay organized.(STUDY SKILLS ACTIVITIES)
Author: Michele Goodstein
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Instructor (1990) (Magazine/Journal)
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Goal-setting effort helps students succeed; Illinois: Ridgewood Community HSD 234.(academic achievement) : An article from: School Administrator
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