Roses Love Garlic: Companion Planting and Other Secrets of Flowers

by Louise Riotte

Overview

From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden’s productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden designs, and includes recipes for using your harvest to make herbal cosmetics, medicinal mixtures, and plant-based dyes. You’ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways plants work together as you tend to a thriving and bountiful garden. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612121871
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	07/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	151,029
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

The Wide World of Flowers

1. Flower Lore

2. The Queen of Flowers

3. Enjoying Trees and Shrubs

4. Vines

5. The Life of Plants

6. Which Plants Go Where?

7. Companion Planting with Flowers and Herbs

8. Gardening Tips and Techniques

9. Garden Creatures

10. Growing Wildflowers from Seed

11. Indoor Pleasures

12. Drying Flowers for Lasting Beauty

13. Dyeing with Nature's Colors

14. Cosmetics and Fragrances

15. Traditional Remedies from the World of Plants

16. More Projects from Plant Lovers

17. Plants and People

18. Plants of the North

19. Garden Plans

Suggested Reading

Sources

Index

Editorial Reviews

Fun to read and more interesting than many how to’s.”

Publishers Weekly

“[Roses Love Garlic] is fascinating and makes interesting and useful reading.”

Newsday

“Let Louis Riotte introduce you to hundreds of flowers and all their friends (and enemies, too.)

Countryside & Small Stock Journal

“…unlocks the secrets of companion gardening as well as other gardening lore.”

Butler (Pa.) Eagle

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