The days are getting longer and the acacias are in bloom. It
’s time to take your antihistamines and head for the garden. But
where to start if you’ve let your garden go for the winter and have
stayed inside by the fire curled up with a good book from the
Morgan Hill Public Library?
The days are getting longer and the acacias are in bloom. It’s time to take your antihistamines and head for the garden.
But where to start if you’ve let your garden go for the winter and have stayed inside by the fire curled up with a good book from the Morgan Hill Public Library?
Well, when you return that book be sure to check out the gardening section. Start with “Sunset” Magazine. All but the current issue check out and there is that handy monthly column entitled “What To Do In Your Garden” this month. While in that area be sure to check out issues of “Better Homes and Gardens” and “Fine Gardening.”
Then it’s off to the shelves for such helpful titles as Time Life’s “Three Seasons of Bloom” where you can learn to create an ever-blooming garden. Katherine Whiteside’s “forcing, etc.” offers an introduction to the art of bringing bulbs, branches and houseplants into bloom.
There are several large encyclopedic volumes dealing with annuals, biennials and perennials:
• Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix have two volumes “Annuals & Biennials” and “Perennials” with extensive photographs and planting tips.
• Jeff Cox’s “Perennial All Stars: the 150 Best Perennials for Great-Looking, Trouble-Free Gardens” gives you sure fire winners.
• “Beautiful Easy Gardens” by Laurence Sombke is a week-by-week guide that includes delicious recipes to inspire you to plant a vegetable garden as well as flowers.
• “Rejuvenating A Garden” by Stephen Anderton gives step by step plans for breathing new life into an old and/or tired garden.
• “Taylor’s Master Guide To Gardening” has over 600 pages showing more than 3,000 species of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, succulents, ferns and other types of plants for your garden.
So next time you are at the Morgan Hill Library, stop by the reference desk for help in locating these and other materials about gardening.
Questions and suggested topics for At the Library, which appears in Tuesday editions, should be directed to Nancy Howe, community librarian, at nh***@**********************ca.us or by calling 779-3196. The Morgan Hill Library, located at the corner of Peak and West Main avenues next to City Hall, is open every day but Sunday.
