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Indlæser... Passalong Plants (udgave 2002)af Steve Bender, Felder Rushing, Allen Lacy (Forord)
Work InformationPassalong Plants af Steve Bender
   Best Gardening Books (129) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  louparris | Apr 15, 2008 |   My middle name should be “Procrastination”. I have a real talent for finding seemingly valid excuses to not do what it is that I am supposed to be doing. Only the threat of a looming deadline spurs me to action. I finished reading the April/May selection, “Passalong Plants” in April. I will spare you the list of pressing chores that “prevented” me from writing my review until now, just a few short days ahead the May 30 deadline. I was tempted to buy this book years ago when I became interested in heirlooms. The fact that it was about “southern” passalongs discouraged me from doing so. New Jersey is one growing zone north of what is considered “southern”. There are classic southern plants that can be grown here in sheltered locations but all it takes is a colder than normal winter and those delicate immigrants succumb. Thanks to global warming, my zone 6 garden is now closer to zone 7, the northern-most “southern” growing zone. Colder than normal winter temperatures are rare now. I am more open to the idea of growing plants that are considered borderline in zone 6. I got out a pad and pen, ready to take notes as I dove into a whole new world of plants via “Passalong Plants”. The authors, Steve Bender and Felder Rushing, have chosen to tell a story about each plant rather than just describing it. Southern gardeners and their gardens come alive through their anecdotes. The reader comes away from the book with much better “pictures” of these old-time favorites than any photograph (which are supplied in abundance throughout the text). The essays can be read in any order. They are helpfully arranged according to the characteristics of the plants so that, for instance, if you are looking for fragrant plants, there is a section on those alone. There are also groupings of essays on plants that are aggressive spreaders, the most common “passalongs”, plants with strange characteristics (such as “naked ladies” and walking iris), plants with garish colored flowers and bare root shrub passalongs that are commonly sold in nurseries. By far my favorite section was on yard art. I don’t “get” bottle trees but plastic animals, painted rocks and especially tire planters took me back in time to my childhood in largely rural upstate New York. The book ends with a chapter devoted to organizing plant swaps for your own passalongs. I finished the book and realized that my pad was empty. I had been too caught up in the stories to stop and take notes. It’s on my bookshelf now, waiting for winter when I am making decisions about what to plant next year. I will page through it again in my constant quest to plant something new. OldRoses | Apr 3, 2008 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers; about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting from the fortunate gardener who has one. In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements. They present this information in the informal, chatty, and sometimes humorous manner that your next-door neighbor might use when giving you a cutting of her treasured Confederate rose. And, of course, because they are discussing passalong plants, they note the best method of sharing each plant with other gardeners. Because you might not spy a banana shrub or sweet pea in your neighborhood, the authors list mail-order sources for the heirloom plants described. They also give tips on how to organize your own plant swap. Although the authors live in and write about the South, many of the plants they discuss will grow elsewhere. from the book Amid the clamor of press releases touting the newest, improved versions of this bulb or that perennial, what keeps people interested in old-fashioned plants? Nostalgia, for one thing. It's hard not to feel a special fondness for that Confederate rose, night-blooming cereus, or alstroemeria lovingly tended by your grandmother when you were a child. Such heirloom plants evoke memories of your first garden, of relatives and neighbors that have since passed on, of prized bushes you accidentally annihilated with your bicycle. Recall the time you first received a particular plant, and you'll recall the person who gave it to you. No library descriptions found. |
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I have many of them, and indeed, they are not always available in nurseries. One of my favorites is the hardy begonia, a start of which was given to me by my sister, Linda. The plants covered are each treated with some basic information and an essay. Each of the essays includes the author''s initials indicating who wrote what.
The photographs are made by the authors too.