Gardening at Ginger My Seven-Year Obsession with Designing and Planting a Personal Landscape

Name: Gardening at Ginger My Seven-Year Obsession with Designing and Planting a Personal Landscape
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ISBN: 9780618659715

ISBN-10: 0618659714

ISBN-13: 9780618659715

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Raimes

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Seven years ago, James Raimes and his wife bought a country home on nine acres in upstate New York. In the tradition of their family, who once owned a cottage named Fred, this larger property became "Ginger." Inspired by the natural beauty of the land and a desire to learn how to be a gardener, Raimes found himself obsessed with such questions as why gardeners keep moving plants around, what the names of the lawn grasses are, and how one can impose order in a garden and at the same time make it look natural. What, in fact, defines a garden? Gardening at Ginger is full of successes and failures, aches and pains, frustrations and delights. But more than that, it's the story of a great…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introductions



Ginger



Digging into the Past



Moving Plants



Digging in Clay



Making Lists



Smelling the Roses



Walking in the Woods



Learning the Lawn



Flowers of Grass



A Garden Can Just Happen



Keeping Them Out



Indoors and Outdoors



Outside the Windows



Dreaming in Color



Green



Masculine Flowers



A Little Bright Red Is Enough



Thin Straight Lines



Sitting and Siting



The Long View



Open and Closed



Why Do It?



Where to Find Inspiration



Roger"s Wood



Weeping Willow



Elm