Lois helps you plan and design an attractive, colorful landscape with trees and shrubs. She describes over 300 of her favorites, selected for their size, shape and seasonal color, and offers advice on what to select for a specific location or purpose.

With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape to make identification simple and accurate in the field, while the text account for each species includes a detailed physical description, information on edibility, season, habitat, range, look-alikes, alternative names, and facts on edible and poisonous species, uses, and folklore. A supplementary section on cooking and eating wild mushrooms, and illustrations identifying the parts of a mushroom, round out this essential guide.

Perennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 86 different species, along with information on 520 recommended varieties, hybrids and cultivars perfect for Ontario gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors share their common sense and practical advice to help you transform any patch of ground into a spectacular garden you can enjoy year after year: * Flower and foliage colors * Height and spread ranges * Blooming periods * How and when to start your plants * Planting strategies * Light, water and nutrient needs * Choosing the best perennials for different growing conditions * Over 470 colour photographs.

With this beautiful book at your fingertips, you can select, plant and care for the trees and shrubs that suit the conditions present in your garden: * Detailed listings for 84 different species of trees and shrubs, along with information on 481 recommended varieties and cultivars best suited for Ontario gardens * Size, shape and growing zone * Seasonal colour and year-round maintenance * Notes on the best features of each species or variety * What tree or shrub to select for a specific location * How to plant, prune and propagate * Soil, moisture and sunlight requirements * Tips for solving pest and disease problems * More than 540 colour photographs and illustrations.

Make your garden the talk of the neighborhood with tasty veggies that everyone says won''t grow in your area! Practical, no-nonsense advice for garden design, soil and fertilizer, insect control, recommended varieties, when and how to plant, harvesting and storage tips, recipes and nutritional information.

Failsafe instructions and practical wisdom for choosing the best plants for your garden type. Lois outlines the choices available, the unique characteristics and quirks of each variety, specific seeding and growing tips and much more.

Lois Hole collaborates with culinary experts to produce a comprehensive work on the best ways to grow and use dozens of herbs and edible flowers. Easy-to-use tips, unique recipes and information about the best ways to grow an edible flower and herb garden are included. The over 100 recipes include choices for meat lovers and vegetarians, dessert aficionados and appetizer connoisseurs.

Perennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 95 different species, along with information on 434 recommended varieties, hybrids and cultivars perfect for BC gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors share their common sense and practical advice to help you transform any patch of ground--wet or dry, in sun or shade, coastal or alpine--into a spectacular garden you can enjoy year after year: * Flower and foliage colors * Height and spread ranges * Blooming periods * How and when to start your plants * Planting strategies * Light, water and nutrient needs * Choosing the best perennials for different growing conditions * Over 530 colour photographs.

Discover the best annuals for Ontario with this colourful guide. Plenty of photographs accompany clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice given in 82 separate accounts that cover over 380 recommended varieties. Includes tips on when to plant, growing from seed versus nursery-grown bedding plants, optimal growth conditions and problems and pests.

This classic has now taught generations of gardeners how to use the natural benefits of plants to protect and support each other. Here is a reader''s complete reference to which plants nourish the soil, which keep away bugs and pests, and which plants just don''t get along. Here is a complete guide to using companion planting to grow a better garden. 555,000 copies in print.