num_pages: 224
description: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead shows you how to triumph over climate, garden pests, and the design clichés of the typical suburban landscape to make gardening an unrivaled entertainment.Here's how any gardener, even with limited land, money, time, or experience, can create a glorious cottage garden.Siting, enclosing, and "furnishing" a gardenUsing the classical rules of proportion to balance your garden planMaking the most of your garden depending upon its angle to the sunConstructing a garden path, a rusticated arbor, or a wattle fenceCombining trees, shrubs, and perennials for abundance and bloom throughout the growing seasonUsing color as a unifying theme, accent, or expression of moodPropagating shrubs and perennials simply and cheaplyPlus a special section on chemical-free pest control and deer-resistant plants.
language: English
title: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams
titlecomplete: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams
genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Gardening
ratings_count: 98
publisher: Three Rivers Press