Louise Riotte

Roses Love Garlic (eBook, ePUB)

Companion Planting and Other Secrets of Flowers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the beloved gardening author of Carrots Love Tomatoes comes a companion planting how-to guide full of flower lore and other secrets for your garden. From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden's productivity.Roses Love Garlicprofiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden designs, and includes recipes for using your harvest to make herbal cosmetics, medicinal mixtures, and plant-based dyes. With gardening expert Louise Riotte's sage advice, as well as her own beautiful illustrations throughout this book, you'll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways plants work together as you tend to a thriving and bountiful garden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612121871
• Artikelnr.: 37968003

Autorenporträt

Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

The Wide World of Flowers
1. Flower Lore
2. The Queen of Flowers
3. Enjoying Trees and Shrubs
4. Vines
5. The Life of Plants
6. Which Plants Go Where?
7. Companion Planting with Flowers and Herbs
8. Gardening Tips and Techniques
9. Garden Creatures
10. Growing Wildflowers from Seed
11. Indoor Pleasures
12. Drying Flowers for Lasting Beauty
13. Dyeing with Nature's Colors
14. Cosmetics and Fragrances
15. Traditional Remedies from the World of Plants
16. More Projects from Plant Lovers
17. Plants and People
18. Plants of the North
19. Garden Plans
Suggested Reading
Sources
Index