Kategoria BISAC: Gardening >> Regional - General

Hawai'i is home to some of the rarest plants in the world, many of them now threatened by extinction. Despite a benign and nurturing climate, native species are declining almost everywhere in the Islands. Human-introduced pests, the spread of competing alien plants, wildfires, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances of modern life are eliminating native species at an alarming pace. In fact, 38 percent of all plants on the U.S. endangered species list are native Hawaiian plants.

A Native Hawaiian Garden is an effort to help stem the tide. Until recent years, few...

The enlightening information and instructions for gardening in Ms. Stewart's book are directed towards gardeners in the Southern Coastal regions, including the states of North and South Carolina, the lower part of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, upper Florida, and coastal Texas.

Mary Stewart, who calls gardening a "delightful therapy," wrote this book as a response to her own love of gardening and as an answer to many questions that people have asked her over the years. Included is information regarding soils and additives, fruit trees, flowering shrubs, roses, and much...

The Northern Garden was first published in 1938. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Almost everyone loves a lei--the making, giving, receiving, and wearing of the lei is a cherished Hawai'i tradition recognized worldwide. With the renaissance in Hawaiian culture sweeping the islands, growing plants that provide lei materials can be a source of pride and pleasure for the home gardener, an economic opportunity for green-thumb entrepreneurs, and can reduce gathering pressure on the few precious remaining areas of native Hawaiian vegetation.

This book contains information on growing 85 plants that can provide flowers or foliage for lei. Some are traditionally used...

Today's approach to crop production considers not only the effects of fertilizer applications on crop yield and quality but also includes awareness of the potential of fertilizer nutrients to adversely affect the environment. Managing crop nutrients deliberately and carefully takes on special significance in Hawaii, where imported nutrient inputs are costly and the environment--particularly the underground aquifer and coastal waters--is vulnerable to pollution.

This book contains a distillation of decades of CTAHR research on soils, fertilizers, and crop nutrient needs, written for...