Passalong Plants, Steve Bender, Felder Rushing, Very Good Book
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Passalong Plants, Steve Bender, Felder Rushing, Very Good Book
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780807844182
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807844187
ISBN-13
9780807844182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
521944
Product Key Features
Book Title
Passalong Plants
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Regional / Canada, Ornamental Plants
Publication Year
1993
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Gardening
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5 oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-007156
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
An entertaining and insightful ode to the fragrance, color, and history of old-fashioned plants and the people who love them. Southern Living, An entertaining and insightful ode to the fragrance, color, and history of old-fashioned plants and the people who love them.Southern Living, The perfect marriage of two noble traditions: southern storytelling and a gardener's love for sharing plants. American Horticulturist, Each plant in Passalong Plants is accurately described in the intimate language of front porch talk. New York Times Book Review, Rushing and Bender are storytellers in the great Southern tradition, and expert gardeners, too.Horticulture, Rushing and Bender are storytellers in the great Southern tradition, and expert gardeners, too. Horticulture, Each plant in Passalong Plants is accurately described in the intimate language of front porch talk.New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
635.9
Table Of Content
Foreword by Allen Lacy ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: What you need to know about this book 1 Chapter 1. Smells for the Sidetrack: Those childhood plants we treasure for their sweet fragrance 5 Chapter 2. The Plants That Get Away: Rampant plants that will pass themselves along if we don't get around to it 23 Chapter 3. Aunt Bea's Pickles: Passalong plants that friends insist on giving you, whether you want them or not 61 Chapter 4. Weirdisms, Oddities, and Conversation Pieces: Plants noted for certain strange features, like many of the people who own them 105 Chapter 5. Gaudy or Tacky?: A celebration of garish plants that show your good taste 139 Chapter 6. In the Bare-Root Bin at the Plant-O-Rama: Some not-so-hard-to-find passalongs sold by the bundle each spring at your friendly, one-stop garden shop 171 Chapter 7. Well, I Think It's Pretty: An exploration of passalong gardeners' fascination with fine yard art, including pink flamingos, goose windmills, plastic flowers, and milk of magnesia trees 195 Chapter 8. Organizing Your Own Plant Swap: How to get a passalong club started in your town 209 Mail-Order Sources for Passalong Plants 213 Bibliography 217 Index 219
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers; about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting from the fortunate gardener who has one.In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements. They present this information in the informal, chatty, and sometimes humorous manner that your next-door neighbor might use when giving you a cutting of her treasured Confederate rose. And, of course, because they are discussing passalong plants, they note the best method of sharing each plant with other gardeners.Because you might not spy a banana shrub or sweet pea in your neighborhood, the authors list mail-order sources for the heirloom plants described. They also give tips on how to organize your own plant swap. Although the authors live in and write about the South, many of the plants they discuss will grow elsewhere. from the book Amid the clamor of press releases touting the newest, improved versions of this bulb or that perennial, what keeps people interested in old-fashioned plants? Nostalgia, for one thing. It's hard not to feel a special fondness for that Confederate rose, night-blooming cereus, or alstroemeria lovingly tended by your grandmother when you were a child. Such heirloom plants evoke memories of your first garden, of relatives and neighbors that have since passed on, of prized bushes you accidentally annihilated with your bicycle. Recall the time you first received a particular plant, and you'll recall the person who gave it to you., Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers; about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting from the fortunate gardener who has one. In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements. They present this information in the informal, chatty, and sometimes humorous manner that your next-door neighbor might use when giving you a cutting of her treasured Confederate rose. And, of course, because they are discussing passalong plants, they note the best method of sharing each plant with other gardeners. Because you might not spy a banana shrub or sweet pea in your neighborhood, the authors list mail-order sources for the heirloom plants described. They also give tips on how to organize your own plant swap. Although the authors live in and write about the South, many of the plants they discuss will grow elsewhere. from the book Amid the clamor of press releases touting the newest, improved versions of this bulb or that perennial, what keeps people interested in old-fashioned plants? Nostalgia, for one thing. It's hard not to feel a special fondness for that Confederate rose, night-blooming cereus, or alstroemeria lovingly tended by your grandmother when you were a child. Such heirloom plants evoke memories of your first garden, of relatives and neighbors that have since passed on, of prized bushes you accidentally annihilated with your bicycle. Recall the time you first received a particular plant, and you'll recall the person who gave it to you., Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements.
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