Gardening

Create beautiful gardens and grow healthy perennials ideally suited for zones 3, 4, and 5. Emphasizing basic techniques, Joan demystifies and simplifies gardening with a common sense approach that makes growing perennials accessible to most everyone. Stunning full-color photos provide inspiration to gardeners of all abilities.

Gardening with native species is low-maintenance, good for the environment, and yields stunning results. Award-winning garden designer Patricia Hill shows you how to combine varieties that are perfect for the soils and climates of the upper Midwest into beautiful arrangements for every space around your home.

Create your own beautiful cottage garden. This practical book offers advice to help Midwestern gardeners—whether novices or old pros—achieve beautiful organic gardens drawing on age-old cottage garden traditions. Learn how to use a lively mixture of perennials, annuals, fruiting trees and shrubs, vegetables, and herbs.

Great-grandpa and grandma turned to their almanac for practical wisdom and wholesome entertainment. The NEW Wisconsin Almanac brings you the same information, advice, and fun that gardeners and homemakers have relied on for generations—all specially selected for the Badger state!

For the past 35 years, thousands of Wisconsin gardeners have relied on the The Wisconsin Garden Guide. Now for the first time in full color, this revised and updated guide should be your one dependable reference to gardening the Badger State.

Whether your garden is in a small backyard or on several acres, you will find just what you need to know to be a successful gardener in Wisconsin’s challenging climate.

Jerry Minnich is the Wisconsin garden expert. With more than forty years of gardening experience, and as the author of countless books and articles on gardening, there is no better source of information.