Growing trees and shrubs is easier than you think. Discover everything you need to make trees and shrubs a manageable investment in your outdoor spaces with this practical course filmed in beautiful natural locations and our in-studio garden. Taking you through different landscapes, climates, and seasons, these 12 lectures reveal strategies for shopping, planting, and caring for trees and shrubs like the experts.
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Prepare for a successful growing season with this set. In How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone, see just how easy it can be to grow your own vegetables and fruits. Then, turn to the largest pieces of your home landscape with How to Grow Anything: Make Your Trees and Shrubs Thrive.
How can you learn to better see—and appreciate—the world of plants? In The Botanist’s Eye: Identifying the Plants around You, explore the most common plant families in North America, as well as some of the fascinating species within them. Along the way, learn the history of botanical science, tips and tricks botanists use to identify seemingly similar plants, and the myriad ways plants define what it means to be human.
If you look around right now, chances are you’ll see a plant. It could be a succulent in a pot on your desk, grasses or shrubs just outside your door, or trees in a park across the way. Proximity to plants tends to make us happy, even if we don’t notice, offering unique pleasures and satisfactions. In Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany, Dr. Catherine Kleier opens our eyes to the phenomenal and exciting world of plant life as she stresses the basic biology, function, and the amazing adaptations of plants.
Gardening is one of life’s great pleasures. It offers bountiful wonders—flowers, grasses, fruits, vegetables, trees—that bring you closer to the natural world. And the best part: You can learn to create gardens and landscapes in almost any setting, from large rural backyards to tight urban spaces, and in almost any climate. How to Grow Anything: Your Best Garden Landscape in 6 Lessons offers you the chance to learn alongside a master gardening educator as she reveals the essential skills of gardening, from design to preparation to planting, that any novice gardener needs to know in order to plant and maintain a thriving garden that looks great. And even if you’ve been gardening for years, you’ll find new ideas and tips, as well as solutions to common gardening dilemmas, in this clear and engaging course.
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