Southern Living Everyday Gardening: Smart Design * Simple Landscape Ideas * Best Plants & Flowers

I am a "sometimes" or "beginner/intermediate" gardener hoping to increase my garden abundance from a few tomatoes and some flowers to something more substantial this year. I receive Southern Living magazine and am always helped by the tips inside. This book has already proved to be a tremendously helpful resource book for me as I make real plans for spring planting this year. The chapters include:*Design Your Garden*Key Garden Elements*Plants You Gotta Grow*The Edible Garden*Gardening Step-by-Step*Around Your Garden (a handy month-by-month tutorial)*Zone MapsThe layout is easy to read, easy to navigate, and quite frankly, beautiful. I am enjoying it. An advanced gardener will need something more in-depth, no doubt, but I think anyone can benefit from its easy-reference style.

Dated. Nice pictures but less technical information than I was expecting.

Great book for beginners and old hands!

I love this book, I have read it from front to back and have learned alot about what grows down here in Charelston SC. We have been natives of Seattle Wa. and just recently moved here and enjoy learning about all the different plants we have down here. This book has beautiful pictures.

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Southern Living's Everyday Gardening is a good gardening book for the south. One of the questions that occurs when reading this book is where is the south? There are zone maps and plants are described in some instances for the upper, middle, lower, coastal and tropical south; however in parts of the book we are left wondering if the plant is suitable for a certain area.The step by step directions are also not very detailed for a beginning gardener or one who is not sure of his/her planting or garden design abilities. Direction on how to plant bulbs is skipped over completely.The pictures are lush and elegant and one could notch down, to save some money, their design and decorating aspirations from the pictures of high brick garden walls, statuary, partial Greek pillars. There are lovely terraced hillsides and bocce ball courts. At one point we are told of the economies of installing a lap pool - getting two for one, an exercise area and a garden feature.Just realize this is not inexpensive everyday gardening instruction . The book does include; designing, garden elements, plant information, the edible garden, a rudimentary step by step section, general garden information such as fertilizing and zone maps. There is also an excellent monthly calendar section which gives information such as taming your tomatoes and smart watering.It is a very nice book for southern elegant gardening.

Good book, great price

Wonderful pictures, a very inspiring book. Looks to have great gardening tips and ideas. Gave it as a present so only browsed through.