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WHO DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? by Alex Pankhurst. 6 x 9 inches, paperback. 168 pages. 64 witty and wonderful profiles. Postpaid to any address in Canada by airmail. Just click the PayPal link to buy it for only $16.00 Canadian. You'll find it to be great garden reading this winter.

 

CREATING AND PLANTING ALPINE GARDENS, by Rex Murfitt. Softcover, 7 x 10 inches. Color photos, 276 pages, index, resources, bibliography. ISBN 1-893443-07-8.  Postpaid to Canada by airmail, $25 Canadian currency.

A wonderful new guide to making gardens using alpine plants. It is a 2006 winner of a Silver Trowel award for book writing from the Garden Writers Association. Chapters include information on alpine gardening: building rock gardens; making raised beds; soil and topdressing, alpine plants in containers, rock gardens under glass, plant talk, and entries describing the most suitable alpine plants. Rex Mufitt (co-author of Creating and Planting Garden Troughs and a resident of Vancouver Island) has been growing alpines and writing about them for years. In 2003 he was given the Carleton R. Worth Award by the North American Rock Garden Society for distinguished writing about rock gardening and rock plants. Having trained in England with masters of alpine gardening, he passes on classic information and technique in a most enjoyable and informative style.

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CREATING AND PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS,
by Joyce Fingerut and Rex Murfitt. Photos by Jane Grushow. Hardcover, 7 x 10 inches. Color photos, 180 pages, index, resource list, bibliography. ISBN 1-893443-00-0.
The trough book (including airmail shipping to Canada) costs only $24. Use the PayPal button below to order.

This  book is now considered a classic! It is the complete guide to making lighter-weight, weatherproof garden troughs of hypertufa, and planting them. Troughs are perfect for Canadian gardens because they last through whatever weather nature brings and help protect special plants. The troughs pictured on the book cover are in the British Columbia garden of author Rex Murfitt.
Winner, American Horticultural Society Book Award 2000.
Troughs can be made at home with lightweight, concrete-based hypertufa, formed into or onto simple molds. Like stone, hypertufa troughs are weatherproof, combine well with landscape materials, and make the perfect environment for evocative miniature gardens. Each trough can have its own microenvironment with the perfect size, soil type, rock forms, mulch, and siting for desired plants. Sedums and succulents, alpines and dwarf evergreens are some of the plants to showcase in trough gardens. Authors Joyce Fingerut, in demand for her trough-building workshops, and Rex Murfitt, alpine gardening authority, present information on making and planting successful troughs in a readable, thorough manner.This book includes hundreds of photographs  and drawings, a plant section, sample planting plans, resources, bibliography, subject index, and plant index. Check the superb worldwide reviews. B. B. Mackey Books, Publisher.
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