Carolinas Gardener's Handbook: All You Need to Know to Plan, Plant & Maintain a Carolinas Garden

ISBN-13: 9781591865391

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Publication Date: 08-30-2012

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 10.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Series: Gardener's Handbook

Toby Bost is a native Tar Heel and has spent most of his life gardening in Piedmont clay soil. Bob Polomski, Ph.D., is widely known and respected for both his down-to-earth gardening expertise and knowledge of the latest technical information. As field faculty emeritus, Toby Bost is best known for his thirty-one years as a horticulturist and Extension Agent with the NC Cooperative Extension Service. For more than two decades, he recruited and certified more than 400 Master Gardeners in Durham and Forsyth counties, appearing frequently in the media as a gardening educator. He has been a garden writer for several newspapers and magazines, including Carolina Gardener and Our State. Many landscape professionals have attended the programs he developed to assist them with licensure in myriad trade associations. For six years, he was director of the Arboretum at Tanglewood Park.Toby continues to dedicate his time to helping gardeners conquer stubborn clay soils and grow healthy lawns and gardens as both a volunteer mentor and consultant. He is an adjunct instructor at the local community college in the horticulture department. He is the author of North Carolina Gardener’s Guide and co-author of Carolinas Gardener’s Guide; co-editor of The Successful Gardeners Guide: North Carolina by Blair Publishing; and co-author of Carolinas Gardener’s Handbook by Cool Springs Press.Toby and his wife, Becky, reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where they serve in leadership at their church. In his leisure time, Toby enjoys golf, fishing, and of course, the joy of gardening.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Featured Plants

Welcome to Gardening in the Carolinas

USDA Hardiness Zones

Profiles: 

  Annuals

  Perennials

  Bulbs

  Edibles: Vegetables, Herbs & Fruits

  Ground Covers & Ornamental Grasses

  Lawns

  Roses

  Shrubs

  Vines

  Trees

Going Green

Helpful Gardening Tips & Hints

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Meet the Authors