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.
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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. 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 Let Louise Riotte Introduce You to Hundreds of Flowers and All Their Friends (and Enemies, Too!) Companion planting is simply planning your garden to take advantage of the antural friendships between plants. In Roses Love Garlic you'll discover how flowers help or hinder nearby vegetables and other flowers. "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
