Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal Carolinas

The coastal Carolinas are blessed with a long growing season, warm ocean breezes, and abundant rainfall. But there are challenges, too -- extreme summer heat and acidic soil among them. In this first guide to tidewater Carolina gardening, complete with over 120 full-color photos, Henry Rehder, Jr. shows how to cultivate plants that not only survive under these conditions, but thrive and remain attractive year-round.

Henry Rehder, Jr., ran his family's retail flower shop in Wilmington, NC, for many years. He also operated a horticultural management and research operation, and served as an advisor to his family's gardens, a nationally-known floral display with over 2,000 varieties of ornamental shrubs, trees, and bedding plants. He was the popular host of a call-in radio show about gardening, and appeared regularly on a local TV gardening feature.