Product Description

Welcome to Rebecca's Garden

Step into an oasis of tranquility and splendor with Rebecca Kolls, star of the lifestyle TV show that has swept the country and turned viewers from coast to coast into enthusiastic, creative landscape gardeners. Whether you live in the country or in a city apartment, Rebecca's Garden will guide you through the delights of toiling in the soil with her step-by-step, illustrated gardening techniques.

Rebecca's own enthusiasm for growing things and her plain, accessible advice have encouraged millions to create their own garden paradises. Starting from the ground up, she'll take you through the four seasons with color, creativity, and continuous bloom, showing you the simple tips that make gardening pleasing, satisfying and successful.

Create a symphony of bloom by selecting perennials according to climate zone, blooming season, height and color.
Add dazzling bright splashes with annuals that flower all summer.
Mix vegetables with flowers and herbs for a potpourri of color and texture.
Produce "Nature's black gold" for your garden with your own mulch pile.
Discover Rebecca's original ideas for plant containers and other craft ideas you can make yourself.

Rebecca supplies charts and specific advice for everything from selecting the right plants to how much feeding and watering is required in each part of your garden. She'll give you special project ideas with illustrated directions, and tell you how to create a water garden, decorate creatively with plants and cut flowers, and more. Rebecca's Garden is a window of opportunity that will enrich your !ife with the beauty and satisfaction of capturing ever-renewing Nature in all its glory.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1180871 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 186 pages

Amazon.com Review
TV gardener Rebecca Kolls brings her lively personality to the page with this beginner's guide to gardening. The reader will find basic advice on choosing tools, composting, and preparing beds as well as more substantial directions on growing and caring for vegetables and flowers, trees and shrubs, lawns, and water gardens throughout the seasons. Kolls gives brief lessons here and there in fertilizing, watering, cleaning tools, doctoring houseplants, starting seeds, and making simple crafts, while quick tips in shaded boxes are sprinkled throughout the text. An alphabetized section on vegetables with facts on site, growing, harvest, storage etc. is at the back of the book.

Rebecca's Garden is a solid gardening book; it includes something on just about everything a reader might want, down to a recipe for herbal mustard and snapshots of Rebecca's family, but the information, albeit sound and environmentally friendly, is general. Gardening novices who are inspired by Rebecca's warm on-air enthusiasm will get the most out of this more permanent resource of her guidance. --Karen Karleski

From Publishers Weekly
Kolls, who hosts TV's popular Rebecca's Garden, offers her practical landscape gardening advice in print, a format that fails to capture the liveliness of her presence on the airwaves. After explaining such preliminary start-up principles as soil preparation, zone and micro-climate identification and tool selection, she launches into her seasonal guide to planting and tending trees, shrubs, flowers and grass. Unfortunately, there's too much overlap from section to section. Of greatest value are the many gardening tips planted in sidebars. Kolls admonishes readers to "garden in the clouds" because cloudy days are more benign to plants. One pointer for fall suggests coating the cut edges of a newly carved pumpkin with petroleum jelly to forestall the shriveling process. Winter gardening moves indoors with craft projects, mower and tool maintenance and some general tips on houseplant care. An appendix lists planting, growing, nutritional and historical information about 36 vegetables commonly grown in the Midwest. While it's refreshing to see a book that discusses gardening in northern climates, this volume is not comprehensive enough to be any gardener's single reference.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Kolls, host of the TV show Rebecca's Garden, has produced a work intended to make us "excited" about gardening. Unfortunately, in her effort to find an aspect of gardening to "hook" every reader, she covers it all?soil improvement, vegetable gardening, lawns, container gardening, annuals and perennials, water garden-in so little depth that we wind up with nothing. Kolls fails to present her material with any original viewpoint or voice to make it stand out from the plethora of books on how to get started in gardening. Readers looking for guidance on low-maintenance gardening will do better with Susan Roth's Weekend Garden Guide (Rodale, 1991), while those just starting flower gardening will be inspired by Elsa Bakalar's A Garden of One's Own (Morrow, 1994).
-?Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

rebecca rocks
Rebecca packs this fun-filled book with her sense of humor as well as some great ideas. Gardeners from beginner to expert will enjoy having this book around. I loved it!

rebecca rocks
The easy to read, informative format of this book just makes it plain fun to have around. Rebecca packs it with her sense of humor as well as her great ideas. Every gardener from beginner to expert will enjoy having this book. I loved it!