Product Description

Illinois gardeners now have a handy new tool for maintaining and improving their gardens throughout the year. The book combines the features of an almanac and a gardening journal. Twelve pages are dedicated to each month of the year. Beautiful full-color photographs and helpful hints specifically geared to the growing conditions of the state provide both inspiration and a practical garden planner. A calendar format and lay-flat binding allows you to keep your own notes on such variables as weather, insect and disease appearances and treatments, as well as garden highlights.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1105024 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
WILLIAM ALDRICH is publisher of Chicagoland Gardening, a magazine he founded in 1995 to provide regionally focused gardening information. He is a certified Master Gardener and has been a garden writer for more than 20 years, mostly with the Chicago Tribune. Bill, a past-president of the Garden Writers Association, has written six Lone Pine gardening books designed for Midwest gardeners. DON WILLIAMSON, who has turned a passion for gardening into his life's work, has a varied background in landscaping, golf course construction and management and now garden writing. He also has extensive experience in the design and construction of both annual and perennial beds in formal landscape settings. Don has a degree in applied horticultural technology and professional certificates in turf management.

Customer Reviews

This Book Should Grace ALL Illinois Garden Sheds

What a wonderful "field guide" to the Illinois garden! This sturdy book has everything you need to know to make your gardening experience more enjoyable. Not only does this book offer hints and schedules for better gardening, it allows ample room for dated notes. Follow this book for one year, fill in the extra notes as directed, and you will have a workbook that you will never want to part with. Everyone in Illinois who enjoys gardening will enjoy this book.

If you like this book, and you will, you might want to look over other books in this series. They include helpful books on Ilinois perennials, annuals, trees & shrubs. The other books are not as inclusive as this volume, but they are equally well written and just as sturdy.