Gardening in the Lower Midwest: A Practical Guide for the New Zones 5 and 6 - Hardcover

Heilenman, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025332811X ISBN 13: 9780253328113

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1994

Synopsis

"... a common-sense handbook for gardeners... It will help slacken the stress level that gardening was never meant to bring." —HortScience

"[Diane Heilenman] gets to the heart, the soul and the humor shared by all in the gardening world... both a practical reference and an inspiration... " —The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN)

Diane Heilenman tells novice and experienced gardeners how to cope in this difficult and trying climate, create gardens appropriate for the region, and select flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs that will be happy—and in turn make us happy. The gardening columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Heilenman is also a gifted thinker who grapples with what it means to garden in our time.

About this title

About the Author:

DIANE HEILENMAN is gardening columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal.

From Library Journal:

Heilenman, garden columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, has written a guide to gardening in USDA plant hardiness zones 5 and 6, specifically, upper Kentucky; all of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; lower Iowa; all of Missouri; and the lower parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. She tags these areas with the unflattering label the "Zombie Zones" because they can have some of the most pronounced temperature swings in the country. While Heilenman presents basic gardening techniques and personal plant preferences in a breezy writing style, her book is similar in scope to two other regional gardening guides: Roger Vick's Gardening Plains and Upper Midwest (LJ 12/90) and Rachel Snyder's Gardening in the Heartland ("Regional Gardening Books and How They Grow," LJ 12/93, p. 83-86). An optional purchase for Midwest gardening collections; for an inspiring photographic treatment of 22 Midwestern gardens, seeded throughout with plant recommendations and gardening tips, Pamela Wolfe's Midwest Gardens (LJ 1/92) is still unmatched.
Virginia A. Henrichs, Chicago Botanic Garden Lib., Glencoe, Ill.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 025332811X
• ISBN 13: 9780253328113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224