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Beautiful at all seasons : southern gardening and beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence / Elizabeth Lawrence ; edited by Ann L. Armstrong and Lindie Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening--Southern States.
- Gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A collection of gardening columns by Elizabeth Lawrence that were published in her column ""The Garden Gate"" which appeared weekly in the Charlotte Observer.
- Contents:
- One. Seasonal Flowers. Garden resolutions
- Flowers for Christmas time
- Flowers greet the new year
- Winter flowers
- The green winter
- A hard winter
- Bamboo
- Storm damage
- The merry month of May
- Tender perennials for hot-weather gardens
- Flowers in the fall border
- Fragrance in the garden
- Fall additions to the border
- Sow hardy annual seeds during September
- Planting annuals in autumn
- Late-blooming flowers
- Two. Perennials and annuals. Planting in relays
- Badge of gardening includes black knees
- Gardening surprises
- The law of supply and demand
- Variegated foliage
- Selections for the rock garden
- Tropical plants
- Annuals
- Sweet peas
- Peony
- Tree peonies and others
- Clematis also flowers in shade
- Beautiful lilies
- Asteromoea mongolica, Kalimeris pinnatifida
- Hellebores
- The Christmas Rose and other Hellebores
- Giridlian, a master of plants
- Night-blooming cereus
- The dividends of fall planting
- Savannah lands of East Carolina
- Petasites
- Three. Bulbs, corms, and tubers. Planting bulbs, corms, and tubers
- Bulbs through the seasons
- Some early spring bulbs
- Daffodils need early start
- Specialty bulbs
- Crown imperials
- Lycoris radiata
- Amaryllis family
- The surprise lily
- Lilies grow where none were
- Garden casualties
- Four. Trees and shrubs
- Planting for ice storms
- Plants for parking strips
- Flowering trees for the city
- Street trees
- Threes with colored bark
- Witch hazels
- Flowering cherries
- Serviceberries and sloes
- Dogwoods
- Buckeyes
- Eucalyptus
- Honey locust
- Osmanthus
- Hollies
- Conifers
- Firs and cedars
- Flowering shrubs
- March-flowering shrubs
- Viburnums and other flowering shrubs
- June-flowering shrubs
- Viburnums
- Pyracanthas
- Hydrangeas
- Sasanquas
- Camellia saluenensis
- E.A. Bowles's lunatics
- Five. Vegetables and herbs, climbers and creepers
- Fall vegetables
- Two vegetable gardens
- Mrs. Hobbs and her herbs
- Sweet woodruff
- Dandelions
- Vines are useful tools
- Smilax
- Clematis hybrids
- Akebia and Rosa banksiae
- Ground covers
- Ground covers pose problems
- Tiny creepers
- Six. Gardeners and gardens
- Wing haven
- Importance of garden details
- Steps in your garden
- Walks and paths
- Terraces and patios
- Water in the garden
- Mr. Krippendorf's garden
- Physic garden at the Country Doctor Museum
- Mr. Busbee's garden
- A visit to Italy's oldest botanic garden
- Colette's mother's garden
- The splendor of Royal Gardens
- Gotelli's collection of dwarf conifers
- The scented garden
- The gardens of soldier's wife
- Pioneer seedsmen
- Young Belgian guided Southern horticulture
- Meet Caroline Dormon
- She talks to the birds
- The Hunt Arboretum
- Seven. Gods, legends, and rituals
- The gods of the garden
- The ash, a symbol in history
- The tale of the magical hawthorn tree
- The Holy Thorn blooms for royalty
- The Christian year parallels the garden year
- Holiday wreaths
- The advent wreath
- Legend and lore of the Christmas tree
- International Christmas trees
- The flowers of the Trinity
- The flowers of the passiontide
- The story of the Passion Flower
- Rituals of the palms
- Rogation days, the blessing of the crips
- Eight. Bits and pieces
- Asafetica
- Feeding the birds
- Honey
- Organic gardening
- Pruning
- Pruning should be done every day
- Historic flower arrangements
- Bouquet carried messages
- Pmanders
- Creatures add to a garden.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 19, 2022)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8976-2
- OCLC:
- 226067795
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