Midwest Gardens - Softcover

Wolfe, Pamela

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ISBN 10: 1556523092 ISBN 13: 9781556523090

Publisher: Chicago Review Pr, 1997

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Incorporates the beauty of the Midwest in an authoritative guide for gardening in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana

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About the Author:

Pam Wolfe is the author of 200 Tips for Growing Flowers in the Midwest and 200 Tips for Growing Vegetables in the Midwest. She teaches horticulture at Chicago’s Morton Arboretum and writes for Chicagoland Gardening and other magazines. She lives in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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An exceptionally fine collaboration between gardener and teacher Wolfe and award-winning photographer Irving, Midwesterners both, this "inspiration" and "practical guide" showcases 22 outstanding gardens from the Upper Midwest. And though the Midwest is often considered too harsh climatically to yield gardens in the grand English style, Wolfe and Irving convincingly claim otherwise. Under the tutelage of such gardeners as Thomas and Helene James, for example, poetic borders of old shrub roses and European perennials can flourish in Wilmette, Ill.; in White Bear, Minn., Betty Matthew's collection of miniature roses and delphiniums thrives. Other gardens in this eclectic anthology bypass the perennial border, ranging from Russell O'Harra'ssic baroque displays of hostas to Polly Rabion's ambitious garden designed for handicapped visitors to Pat Armstrong's restoration of native Illinois prairie, in which she uses the traditional annual burn as a method of controlling weeds. Irving's photographs focus on color, texture, and small-scale patterns as they intimately detail the gardens, while Wolfe's text homes in on the creative strategies behind them.
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