Ebook: Hortus Miscellaneous: a Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction

Preface; Acknowledgments; Count the Dots on Your Snowdrops; America's Favorite Daylilies; Trees; Vines; Another Weather Potent; Index; About the Authors.;From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture -- gardening presents a trove of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora? List-making is in the gardener's blood, and this collection of random facts, data, and wisdom will excite the Latin-spouting garden geek as much as the arrival of the new Heronswood catalog. Inspired by Schott's Original Miscellany, the book contains entries practical (the 15 ornamental plants that deer wo.