Alberta Yards & Gardens: What to Grow

 
   
 
 
 


Alberta Yards & Gardens: What to Grow is a fresh look at what grows best in Alberta. This 236-page book provides the information you need to successfully grow ornamental trees and shrubs, small fruits and berries, flowers, vegetables, herbs and even water plants. This book helps both the hobby gardener and the serious horticulturist deal with the extreme growing conditions in this province.

Includes tips and techniques for:
  • pruning
  • wintering roses
  • container gardening
  • attracting birds and butterflies
  • growing herbs
  • water gardening


The wealth of information contained in this book can be applied to large rural or suburban gardens, or to a small balcony garden in the city. Whatever your needs, Alberta Yards & Gardens: What to Grow helps you make good choices. 236 pages.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Woody Ornamentals
Home Landscape Planning and Design
How to Plant
Pruning Notes
  • Basic Pruning Principles
  • When to Prune
  • Deciduous Trees
  • Coniferous Evergreens
  • Vines
Browning of Evergreens
  • Autumn Needle Shed
  • Drought Damage
  • Winter Injury
Recommended Trees and Shrubs
Recommended Trees and Shrubs - chart
Height Selector Chart
Flowering Crabapples
Flowering Crabapples - chart
Roses
Winter Hardiness
Planting and Growing
Wintering
Roses - chart
Tree Fruit
Planting
Pruning
Fruit Production
Recommended Tree Fruit
  • Apples
  • Apples - chart
  • Apricots, Pears & Plums
  • Apricots, Pears & Plums - chart
Bush/Small Fruit
Getting Ready
Recommended Bush Fruit
  • Sandcherry Plum Hybrids
  • Bush Cherries
  • Sour Cherry
  • Currants and Gooseberries
  • Other Berry
  • Grapes
Native Fruits
  • Saskatoon
  • Chokecherry
  • Pincherry
  • Buffaloberry
Recommended Small Fruit
  • Lowbush Blueberries
  • American Highbush Cranberry
  • Raspberries
  • Rhubarb
  • Strawberries
Annual & Biennial Flowers
Planning Flower Beds
Starting Transplants
Handling Seedlings
Planting and Maintenance
Geraniums
  • Wintering Indoors
What to Grow in Alberta
Annual Flowers - chart
Speciality Gardens
Container Gardening
  • Considerations
  • Planting
  • Ideas for Container Gardening
Butterfly Gardens
  • Choosing a Site
Bird Garden
  • Set-up
Water Gardening
  • Water Gardening - chart
  • Wintering Aquatic Plants
Bulbs
Spring Flowering Bulbs
  • Selecting Bulbs
  • Location
  • Planting
  • After Flowering Care
  • Tulip
  • Narcissus
  • Crocus
  • Scilla
  • Other Spring Flowering Bulbs 42
Summer Blooming Bulbs
  • Gladiolus
  • Tuberous Begonia
  • Dahlias
  • Cannas
Perennials
Planting a Perennial Bed
Winter Care
Selections
  • Iris
  • Lily
  • Garden Chrysanthemum
  • Peony
Ground Covers
  • Description
  • Growth
What to Grow in Alberta
Perennials - chart 156
Lawns
Construction
  • Grading
  • Timing
    Seeding
  • Starting Seed
  • Feeding
  • Mowing
Sodding
  • Preparation
  • Laying Sod
  • Initial Care
Maintenance
  • Feeding
  • Mowing
Recommended Mixtures and Rate of Seed Application
  • Where Lawns Can Be Watered
  • Where Supplementary Water Is Not Available
  • Low Maintenance Grasses
Vegetables
Considerations
  • Extra Protection
  • Planting Tips
Selector Charts for Planting by Date
Vegetable Planting Information - chart
  • Recommended Vegetable Cultivars
Herb Gardening
Planning and Planting
Propagating Herbs
  • Steps
Harvesting Herbs
Preserving Herbs
Herbs - chart
Glossary


 
 
 
  For more information about the content of this document, contact Ada Serafinchon.
This information published to the web on May 1, 2001.