Roses Love Garlic
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Publishing Details
Roses Love Garlic
By (Author) Louise Riotte
Workman Publishing
Storey Publishing LLC
2nd January 1998
2nd Revised edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants
635.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 18mm
420g
Description
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.
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
Author Bio
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.
