Nothing is as tasty as a cool, vine-ripened tomato! Lois provides growing and selection tips, nutritional information, tomato lore and trivia, recipes and more. Full of vivid color photos, this book features more varieties of tomato than you thought possible.
In the first, bestselling volume of the What Grows Here? Series, Jim Hole offered practical answers to gardening's most important questions. Now, Jim turns his attention to problems, answering questions both mundane and bizarre, solving the most perplexing gardening dilemmas and describing today's best plant varieties, plants you can count on to tackle the garden's toughest challenges while providing peerless beauty. With over 400 full colour photographs, tips from other successful gardeners, and advice from one of Canada's most accomplished gardening professional, What Grows Here? Volume 2: Problems is a must-own volume for today's gardener.
The 6th Q&A series explores the incredible world of bulbs.The goal of these books is to provide gardeners with the information they need to grow beautiful plants. Questions are answered in 2-part. A short answer and a more in-depth answer.
Hole, author of many gardening books and creator of a large retail greenhouse operation in western Canada, offers a guide for novice gardeners and a reference for experienced bulb enthusiasts. Detailed accounts of 20 varieties of bulbs include advice on planting, growing, and maintaining flowering bulbs in the garden, in containers, and indoors, and give tips on displays and cutflower arrangements. Color photos on every page illustrate bulbs and arrangements. The book is distributed by Lone Pine Publishing. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
If the word houseplant leaves you feeling a strange combination of excited and guilty, you're not alone. Like all relationships, the one we have with houseplants is at its best when cultivated with understanding and good advice. That's exactly what Jim Hole delivers in What Grows Here? Indoors. Jim transforms information into knowledge, hesitation into confidence and problems into solutions. - Learn the basics about light, water & more - Discover specifics about pests and diseases - Learn to choose plants for both private and public settings, including homes, offices, schools and hospitals Fifty unique questions and answers highlight key tips to help you make confident choices. Complete with full-colour photography and in-depth plant listings, What Grows Here? Indoors will help you select the perfect houseplant for every situation.
Find answers to the most common questions asked of gardening experts. Lois and her son Jim bring together more than 60 years of professional gardening experience.
Seven thousand cattle are crossing the border from Montana into newly named Alberta. The open-range ranch era is about to begin. Doc Windham, a Texan cowboy trailing the herd, has emerged from southwestern Montana for the first time in 15 years. Leaving sanctuary, he must pay the price in longing and fear as he searches for Pearly, the lover he lost along the West’s frontiers and who is hiding somewhere in this vast land. Along the way he’ll be hunted with joyless determination by a strange, implacable enemy he once left for dead. Harrowed along by ghosts of murder and loss, by walls of wind and shards of lightning, Doc emerges to make a fresh start — if the vengeance seekers and his soul’s own hunger will let him.
In the first two volumes of the bestselling What Grows Here? series, Jim Hole tackled locations and problems, providing great plant choices for a multitude of gardening situations. In this third volume, Solutions Jim introduces the reader to the owners of thirteen gardens in different stages of development, and discusses the real life problems each faces, while continuing to offer more of the same expert advice on selecting the best plant for specific locations and conditions. Jim also takes the reader into the yards of innovative gardeners who have creatively and successfully met a variety of gardening challenges. He reviews and discusses their solutions and plant choices, and offers his own possible alternatives in his usual friendly and informative manner. Whether answering questions that owners of new yards have or those of gardeners with established landscapes, Jim Hole opens gardener's eyes to the many possibilities that today's best plant varieties offer. Accompanied by award winning photographer, Akemi Matsubuchi's beautiful images, Jim illustrates how to truly make a landscape your own, all while following his personal Enjoy Gardening
Find answers to the most common questions asked of gardening experts. Lois and her son Jim bring together more than 60 years of professional gardening experience.
Lois Hole's three best-selling flower books are packaged in an attractive slipcase. Lois tells you what perennials to buy for different locations, rose varieties that are suitable for a whole range of conditions and bedding plants that will make your gard