Product Description

From one of the nation's best-loved gardeners come expert tips, techniques, and advice for growing beautiful flowers and delicious vegetables and herbs, and raising hearty houseplants--every month of the year. Jane Pepper draws on over 20 years of her own experience and hundreds of interviews with gardening experts from around the world in an insightful guide that will help you achieve maximum results and enjoyment in your garden.

Each chapter contains timely tips, seasonal suggestions applicable to different sections of the garden, and detailed information on specific gardening topics. Perfect for passionate gardeners and beginners alike!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321139 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

From Booklist
Pepper, who has been growing vegetables, herbs, and fruits in her own garden in a Philadelphia suburb for nearly 30 years, begins her book with the month of March, insisting that, with any luck, gardeners can then start planting some early vegetables. Pepper inaugurates her discussion of each month with gardening tips and then offers a monthly overview on what must be done. For some months she gives a selection of easy-to-grow perennials, annuals, small flowering trees, large trees, herbs, ferns, vines, grasses, and ground covers. There is very little gardening during the winter months, so Pepper offers pointers on raising houseplants. This comprehensive paperback includes data on planting, fertilizing, pruning, propagating, composting, watering weeding, transplanting, mulching, and winterizing. No facet of gardening is left undiscussed. Sixteen pages of color photographs and 21 black-and-white diagrams complement the informative text. George Cohen

About the Author
JANE PEPPER is the president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Customer Reviews

Simple Pleasures
Jane Pepper has been writing a gardening column in the Philadelphia Inquirer for more years than I can remember, and for just that long, she has been part of my gardening life. Pepper has a way with words, and a way with plants, that make her columns a pleasure to read and very easy to understand, "Jane Pepper's Garden" is a treasure trove of her best advice.

I am giving this book to several gardeners on my holiday list to tide them over the long winter months. It is such a pleasure to read, and written with such enthusiasm, that one starts daydreaming even on a snowy day: "Maybe I should start roses this year. Maybe I can really do it...I wonder if I should move my hostas?"

Born in Scotland, Pepper retains that distinctly British no-nonsense voice. The book begins in the month of March, as she explains what can be done and should be done to prepare for the season ahead. It is like talking to a favorite aunt over tea, and one cannot help feeling inspired.

Houseplants are not neglected in this book, and Pepper speaks of them with the same enjoyment that she does roses...and everything else.

This book is a treasure. Do yourself a favor and buy it for yourself. Then, when the weather is at its bleakest, you can turn to "Aunt Jane" and talk gardens to your heart's content.