The Pelican Guide to Gardens of Louisiana

The Pelican Guide to Gardens of Louisiana
Author: Leblanc, Joyce YelDell
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1974
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781455610211

The book includes histories and descriptions of such splendid gardens as: Longue Vue and Rosedown Hodges.

The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana

The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana
Author: Anne Butler
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781589807099

The plantation homes of Louisiana were built by wealthy cotton and sugar planters, who vied with one another to create the most splendid residences in the years before the Civil War. This edition of the guide features descriptions of more than 250 significant houses in Louisiana, many dating from the days of French and Spanish rule. Seventy-one photographs highlight the finest structures.

The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi

The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi
Author:
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781455610266

The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi Volume II: Columbus and the North features the following areas: Macon, Columbus, Starkville, Aberdeen, Corinth, Holly Springs, Oxford, Sardis, Como, Carrollton, Grenada, and the Greenville Delta. This volume includes all the essential information that will make the area a sightseer's delight: photographs of famous homes and landmarks, locations, hours open, significant features, notable history, and admission policies. Author Helen Kerr Kempe is a former associate editor of the Louisiana Almanac. She has also written The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi Volume I Natchez and the South. Her Mississippi guides are significant contributions to the Pelican Guide Series.

Louisiana Plantation Homes

Louisiana Plantation Homes
Author: William Darrell Overdyke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1965
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN:

This is a comprehensive pictorial album of the fine colonial homes and plantation residences of Louisiana that were built in the flush financial times before the Civil War. This authoritative book is the result of three decades of photographing and dedicated research by Professor Overdyke and his wife.

The New Orleans Garden

The New Orleans Garden
Author: Charlotte Seidenberg
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604736879

Among America's garden cities, one of the most remarkably beautiful is New Orleans. Now the exotic New Orleans garden can live not only in romance but also in settings very close to home. Whether in the Vieux Carre or in the humid hinterlands, anyone hoping to recreate such a romantic spot in the climes of the Gulf Coast region should consult Charlotte Seidenberg's essential handbook.In this new edition of a favorite manual among New Orleans gardeners, Seidenberg instructs how to create a beautiful garden in this subtropical, sometimes richly alluvial zone and identifies plants that over generations have become a part of the gardening heritage of New Orleans. She discusses such basics as soil preparation and pest control and advises the gardener on how to grow roses, native and exotic trees and shrubs, vines, annuals, perennials, ferns, wildflowers, bulbous and tuberous plants, and groundcovers. She instructs how best to create specialty gardens such as container gardens and herb gardens. Like many other gardeners today, she is ecology-conscious, strongly advocating that one should garden not only for beauty but also for attracting wildlife.