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50 High-Impact, Low- Care Garden Plants by Tracy DiSabato-Aust is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy’s own gardening experience. Tracy has
identified 50 showstopping plants that anyone can grow. Each selection is a dynamic
choice for nearly every garden. All 50 have passed Tracy’s test for toughness, beauty and durability. In addition each plant has most or all of these characteristics:
Multi-season interest, colorful foliage, longlasting blooms, outstanding texture, lasts five
year or longer, tolerates heat and humidity, cold-hardy, deer-proof, pesticide and insecticide free, infrequent or no deadheading, no heavy fertilizing, no staking, requires infrequent or no division, requires infrequent pruning, not invasive or overly aggressive, tolerates drought, architectural form.

The New Low-Maintenance Garden: How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden
and the Time to Enjoy It How often have you said “I’d love to be able to garden more; I just don’t have the time.” Modern life, with its every-growing demands, leaves little time for the pleasure of gardening. But sometimes gardening itself it the
culprit: elaborate, traditional perennial borders; water-hungry or diseaseprone
plants; needy lawns; and highmaintenance plants that require staking or clipping all suck up precious hours. Simply put, we need to start gardening in whole new way. In this inspiring book, VAL EASTON shows exactly how to have a low-maintenance garden that doesn’t sacrifice style. You won’t have to give up your favorite plants or settle for expanses of ugly bark nuggets. You just have to unlearn some bad old habits and pick up some good new ones. So, how do you go about making a “new” low-maintenance garden?
First, design your garden with maintenance in mind. “Good-looking hardscape will both save weeding time and showcase your favorite plants. Second, simplify your garden routines. “Learn the most efficient plants and maintenance techniques and don’t get stressed if everything isn’t letterperfect. Third, learn how to work with nature rather than against it. And finally, embrace home-grown fruits, herbs , and vegetables; well planted containers; and thoughtfully chose plants.

This book doesn’t just tell you how to garden in whole new way. It shows you, through profiles and beautiful photographs of real gardens that embody low-maintenance techniques. The pressures of life are not likely to ease up anytime
soon, but the lessons of this timely book will help you replace guilt over undone garden chores with pleasure in your garden successes

Every gardener wants to create breathtaking designs with color, form and texture.
But perennial combinations present challenges: how do I know all plants will
bloom at the same time? How do I pick plants that have interest in each season? Most perplexing —– which plants look good together in the first place? Perennial
Companions takes away the guesswork by providing Tom Fischer’s 100 proven picks. New gardeners will learn how to create simple pairings with two plants and
gardeners with a bit more experience will find complex arrangements with four or more plants. Arranged chronologically by season, spanning the earliest spring to the onset of winter, each entry identifies all the main plants by both common and botanical names, specifies the care and conditions each requires, and indicates when the combination reaches its peak of beauty.
You’ll find both quiet compositions and bold blends in flowers. Prefer the texture of leaves? You'll find ferns and soft sweeping grasses. Combine both for sophisticated
tapestries that beguile and dazzle the eye. Whether you want to create a small-scale sanctuary, a welcoming path, or a bewitching border, you’ll find an
abundance of inspiration in this perfect package. This recent donation to the Burlington Library from the Burlington Garden Club is now available on the new non-fiction book shelves, check it out.
HOME OUTSIDE
Would you like to make your outdoor living spaces a beautiful,
functional extension of your home?
Home Outside will give you all the big picture design concepts you need to create an outdoor paradise—and all the step-bystep details to bring your vision to life.
Acclaimed landscape designer and award-winning author Julie Moir Messervy takes you through seven key concepts that can help you transform your landscape - - and your lifestyle.
· Pleasure Ground
· Lay of the Land
· Big Moves
· Finding your Comfort Zone
· Making it Flow
· Placing the Pieces
· Sensory Pleasures
For every part of your property, the author helps you see it through the eyes of a designer—explaining concepts in simple, understandable language and providing
great tips for pulling it all together. You’ll learn how to craft a front yard that’s warm and
inviting to friends and neighbors. A backyard that’s friendly, functional and relaxing for any kind of entertaining. And for those quiet moments you may need from time to time, you’ll learn how to create peaceful spaces that feel like your own private sanctuary. With all the insights of Julie Messervy, 358 photos and 72 drawings, Home Outside delivers everything
you need to make the great
THE GARDENS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Best known for his strikingly modern structures, Frank Lloyd Wright was also a
highly influential landscape designer. The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright is the
first book in full color to focus on Wright’s four most famous residential landscapes;
his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent 3,000-acre
summer home in Tallesin, in Wisconsin; his 600-acre winter home in Tallesin
West, in Arizona; and Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, the commission that made
him world famous. The product of extended visits to properties associated with
Wright, as well as extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students,
the book also explores the Japanese and Mayan landscapes that inspired Wright
and his appreciation of the stone meeting circles and naturalistic prairie plantings
of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. Planting plans allow readers
to create prairie and desert- style gardens of their own.
This latest addition to the gardening books collection at the Burlington Library
will be found in the new non-fiction section.

BULBS IN THE BASEMENT, GERANIUMS ON THE WINDOWSILL

The secret is out: cooler-zone gardeners are discovering that with a little wintertime TLC,
plants that have long been considered “annuals” can thrive for many years. These plants – including geraniums, gladioli, dahlias, begonias, rosemary, lavender, and even impatiens – aren’t annual at all. Rather, they are tender perennials. Not hardy enough to survive winter on their own, they can be moved indoors during the cold months, and then returned to the garden in spring. Many are even more beautiful in their second and third years!
Bulbs in the Basement, Geraniums on the Windowsill by Alice McGowan and Brian McGowan, is the first comprehensive resource on the care and maintenance of tender plants. In this zonedefying guide, readers will find simple techniques for overwintering, followed by 160 detailed plant profiles. Profiles include individualized advice for overwintering and indoor care. The growing advice is clear and time tested; the authors themselves spent decades introducing and nurturing tender plants at the renowned Blue Meadow Farm Nursery in Montague, Massachusetts.
Both inspirational and practical, Bulbs in the Basement, Geraniums on the Windowsill will revolutionize perennial gardening, allowing enthusiastic growers in any location to enjoy their favorite plants year after year. This latest contribution to the Burlington Library by the Garden Club is located in the new non fiction section at the Library.

Plant-Driven Design

For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants pay subordinate roles. With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect they deserve does a garden become emotionally resonant. Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants, and give gardeners more confidence to design. The Ogdens boldly challenge design orthodoxy and current trends by examining how to marry plantsmanship and design without sacrificing one to the other. Supported by extensive lists of plants adapted to designing in a wide variety of climates gives their perspective a unique depth. In ideas, scope, and detail, this book both embraces and transcends regionality. By reclaiming gardens as a home to plants, this groundbreaking work will restore life-affirming vitality to garden design and profoundly affect how we understand and experience gardens. You will find this latest Garden Club donation to the Burlington Library in the new non fiction book section.
Roy Diblik's Small Perennial Gardens: the Know Maintenance Approach

Now available in the new non-fiction section, a gift from the Burlington Area Garden club. For 30 years Roy Diblik has been growing, studying and planting perennials. In his approach to design with perennials he creates communities of compatible plants that live well together, support each other and establish quickly to become gorgeous, glorious gardens that require minimal care.

Diblik states that his gardens require an average of 15-25 minutes of maintenance every 10-14 days. Watercolor illustrations throughout the book represent plants and gardens, and photographs of several of Diblik's installations provide real-life inspiration. Check it out now
Wisconsin Gardens & Landscapes

The latest addition of books donated to the Burlington Library by the Garden Club is Wisconsin Gardens and Landscapes by Mary Lou Santovec and Rick Santovec.

Visit over 100 public gardens, landscapes, nature preserves and nurseries with this exciting and colorful new guide, sure to please garden aficionados and landscape-lovers alike. With a detailed appendix of specialty garden and plant clubs, master gardeners, and helpful travel information, Wisconsin Gardens and Landscapes offers everything there is to know about Wisconsin's rich garden tradition. Find it with the new non-fiction at the Burlington Library
Clematis for Small Spaces by Raymond J. Evison
has been added to the gardening books collection of the Burlington Public Library thanks to the Burlington Area Garden Club. This 272-page book contains 161 color photos.With the arrival of a new generation of clematis cultivars that excel in mixed borders, containers and other small spaces, there is more reason than ever to grow them. As well as being modest in height, many of these new clematis are extremely floriferous and self supporting, thus ensuring their value in a wide range of garden situations.

Evison recommends the best clematis for spaces such as indoor and outdoor containers, mixed borders, deck gardens, hanging baskets, and balconies and goes on to provide detailed plant descriptions organized by flowering season. This long awaited book celebrates a new generation of clematis and will appeal to both established enthusiasts and beginners. Look for it in the new non-fiction section at the Library.
New at the Burlington Library

Open Days Program

The Garden Conservancy's
Open Days Directory 2008 edition:
The guide to visiting America's best private gardens.

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new at the burlington wisconsin library

Prairie Plants

The University of Wisconsin has a stellar collection of prairie plant species, including horsetails, ferns, rushes, sedges, grasses, shrubs, vines and wild flowers. This guide illustrates and describes more than 360 native and introduced species that grow and bloom on the Arboretum prairies. The intent of author Theodore S. Cochrane is to increase awareness and respect for remaining small prairie remnants, motivate readers to work for prairie preservation and restoration, and encourage the planting of native species in yards and gardens.