Horticulture Tips & Techniques for Smart Gardening -- on DVD and CD-ROM

Special Offer: For a limited time, get any 2 CDs for $39.99 by using code HortCDDuo (individual CDs are $25 each - or order 3 or more and get $5 off each) 

Horticulture:  Roses (CD)
Learn the differences between tea roses, English roses, shrub roses and more. Find out the best varieties of each type of rose, the repeat bloomers, the most fragrant, the disease resistant, plus varieties for specific situations, such as humid areas and the seashore. Articles also cover design ideas, companion plants and practical care.

Horticulture:  Perennials (CD)
Full-length feature articles discuss gardening with popular perennials such as asters, border sedum, ornamental salvia and daylilies, plus some unusual choices. Illustrated step-by-step articles teach the most common methods of propagating perennials, so you can increase the plants in your garden without spending money. Bonus: Includes four illustrated plans for traditional, woodland, sunny and shady perennial gardens.
 

Horticulture:  Container Gardening (CD)
Explore the world of container gardening. Learn how to choose the right container for any kind of plant, matching shape, size and color for the best combination. Pictures and planting lists show plants to place together in containers, and experts give advice on growing bulbs, tropical plants, trees, annuals and perennials in pots.

Horticulture:  Gardening In the Shade (CD)
Shade creates challenges to both cultivation and design. This disc offers strategies for gardening in the shade. Feature articles cover plants that thrive in low light conditions, including ferns, woodland lilies, impatiens and many more, for gardens, pots and window boxes. Expert shade gardeners show design techniques for making shady corners look bright and interesting.

Horticulture:  Veggies (CD)
Expert gardeners recommend their favorite veggies to grow including the best varieties of tomatoes, garlic, onions, peas, blueberries, herbs and more. This exclusive CD collection includes a bumper crop of fruit and vegetable articles from Horticulture, covering the best varieties to grow, techniques and design, plus recipes for enjoying your harvest.

Horticulture:  Bulbs (CD)
Expert gardeners recommend their favorite bulbs to grow, from the earliest snowdrops to spring tulips, summer lillies to fall crocus, plus bulbs for winter forcing. This exclusive CD collection features an assortment of both familiar and unusual bulbs, with practical care and design advice, including growing bulbs in containers.

Horticulture:  Annuals (CD)
Expert gardeners recommend their favorite annuals to grow, from classic sunflowers and marigolds to sturdy geraniums to fragrant sweet peas to forgotten heirlooms and novel hybrids. This exclusive CD collection celebrates the beauty and charm of flowering annuals, with practical culivation and design advice and the best tools and techniques for starting from seed, transplanting and planning for seasons to come.

Horticulture:  Great Gardeners (CD)
Meet the experts who explore the world looking for exciting plants to introduce into home gardens, including master plantsman Daniel Hinkley. Learn about the scientists behind some of the country’s most popular plants and gardens. Read how gardeners like you turned their passion for plants into their life’s work. This exclusive CD collection includes 31 “A Gardening Life” articles published in Horticulture from 2004-2008.

2008 Horticulture Annual (CD)
Enjoy a full year of Horticulture on one handy disc. This CD contains the full contents of all seven Horticulture issues published in 2008, reproduced in their entirety, appearing just as they did in print.  This keyword-searchable collection includes internal and external links — you can quickly flip between articles and instantly visit helpful Web sites. Learn to combine bulbs and other plants to best effect. Visit the Chocolate Flower Farm, Joy Creek Nursery and the rock garden at Plant Delights Nursery, as well as private gardens in New York, Alaska, Connecticut, Washington and England.

2007 Horticulture Annual (CD)
Enjoy a full year of Horticulture on one handy disc. This CD contains the full contents of all seven Horticulture issues published in 2007. This keyword-searchable collection includes internal and external links—you can quickly flip between articles and instantly visit helpful Web sites. Get help with common lawn and landscape problems and advice on shovels, spades, tool sheds and weather-measuring instruments. Be inspired by visiting private gardens in Massachusetts, New York, Texas and Washington.

10 Years of Horticulture (DVD)
This invaluable DVD contains over 1,300 fully-searchable articles, including every issue of Horticulture from 1997 through 2006, with original text, photographs, artwork and layout, just as they appeared in the magazine.  Articles are indexed by Garden Type, Plant Type, Region, Techniques, and Tools, as well as by Year and Issue.

All CDs are keyword searchable with links to external resources.  All articles are in PDF format, making them viewable on both PCs and Macs with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher.  For DVD, you will need a DVD-equipped computer; PCs with Windows 200, XP or Vista or Macs running OS X V. 10.4.3 or later.