Introduction. How to Use This Book. Part I: Getting Going with Gardening. Part II: Colour Your World. Part III: Sculpting with Plants and More. Part IV: At Ground Level. Part V: Caring for Your Plants. Part VI: Special Gardens.
Part VII: The Part of Tens. Appendixes. Icons Used in This Book. Part I: Getting Going with Gardening. Chapter 1: Just a Few Ground-Level Questions and Answers. How Do I Make My Plants Grow Rather Than Die'. Your climate and microclimates. Sun or shade.
Soil and water. Plants that are most at home in your garden. What Can I Use My Garden For? Do I Have to Learn a Foreign Language? The fancy name. Common names. Chapter 2: Zoning Out: What You Can and Can't Grow. Plant Hardiness. Cold hardiness. Winter injury.
Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada. U.S. and Canadian zones: How they compare. Working with Microclimates. Length Counts: How Long Is Your Season? Stretching Your Garden Season. Planting earlier in the year. Gardening into autumn.
Maximizing Winter Hardiness. Chapter 3: Planning Your Landscape. Taking Stock of What You Have. Dreaming Up the Perfect Landscape. Who will use your yard? When will you use your yard? What's your neighbourhood like? How much maintenance are you ready for? What Goes Where: Designing the Plan. Using your space effectively. Defining areas and ways to move through them. The hardscape.
The plants. Creating a Final Plan. Using your computer. Field testing. Part II: Colour Your World. Chapter 4: Annuals. What's an Annual? Getting Cozy with Annuals. Some annuals are cool and some like it hot.
Sun and shade. How to Buy Annuals. What You Can Do with Annuals. Playing with colour. Using shape, height, and structure. Designing for fragrance. Getting annuals together. Containing annuals.
Taking Care of Your Annuals. Our Favourite Annuals. Cool-season annuals. Warm-season annuals. Fragrance after Dark. Chapter 5: Perennials. What's a Perennial? Beds and Borders. Designing a Perennial Border.
Beyond Borders. Planting Perennials.and Afterwards. Watering and feeding. Pinching and pruning perennials. Our Favourite Perennials. Perennials with a Plus. Chapter 6: Bulbs.
What Are Bulbs'. What You Can Do with Bulbs. When and How to Buy Bulbs. Spring-blooming bulbs. Summer-blooming bulbs. Shopping tips. Ode to the Lily. Planting Bulbs.
What's your style? Beware the creatures. Caring for Bulbs. Dividing and Propagating Bulbs. Bulbs in Containers. Favourite Bulbs. Chapter 7: Roses. Kinds of Roses. Trying out hybrid teas.
Fun with floribundas. The experts' choice. Hail to the queen. Climbing high with roses. "Honey, I shrunk the roses!" When a rose is a tree. Shrub roses. Landscaping with Roses. Buying Roses.
Planting Roses. Fertilizing and Watering. The Mystery of Pruning. Other Rose Quirks. Helping Roses Survive Winter. Redolent Roses. Part III: Sculpting with Plants.and More.
Chapter 8: Trees and Shrubs. What Trees Can Do for You. Lower heating and cooling expenses. Make you look marvellous. Choosing the Right Tree. Don't Try This at Home. Our Favouri.