Ask Ciscoe: Oh, la, la! Your Gardening Questions Answered

by Ciscoe Morris

Overview

Ciscoe Morris answers 400 the most interesting, oft-asked, most urgent, and puzzling gardening questions. Even if Ciscoe’s signature exclamation "Ooh-la-la!" (delivered with a thick Wisconsin accent) is completely disarming, do not underestimate his gardening chops: Master Gardener, certified arborist, teacher at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. In his first book, he addresses the full range of issues from ornamental gardening and trees to vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs, lawns, containers, weeds, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570614323
Publisher:	Sasquatch Books
Publication date:	11/28/2006
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	1,101,185
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Ciscoe Morris loves gardening and storytelling. He is a horticulturist and popular TV and radio host. He wrote a weekly newspaper column for 17 years, first for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer followed by the Seattle Times. Ciscoe spent the majority of his long gardening career as director of grounds care at Seattle University where he developed a nationally recognized organic gardening program. Additionally, he has been a longtime Master Gardener, an ISA-certified arborist and a WSNLA-certified horticulturist. When he isn't speaking at events throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, you'll find him working in his northeast Seattle garden which has been featured in several publications. Besides gardening, he is passionate about traveling. Despite his busy schedule, he manages to find time to host garden tours all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

Gardening with Ciscoe on TV: Now on Saturday at 10:00 or 10:30 a.m. (depending on the season) on King 5 or 2:00pm on Kong 6/16. Don't forget about my Gardening with Ciscoe Live,Friday nights, 6:00 on NWCN (channel 2). KIRO 710 AM in Seattle: Every

From the Publisher

For avid arborists, life's most perplexing problems always involve greenery: How can we invite bumblebees into our garden but keep the yellow jackets away? Is it safe to buy annuals in March? Where can I safely plant my apple tree? Wisconsin-born Washington State transplant Ciscoe Morris shepherds West Coast gardeners through all these thorny questions and hundreds more. The popular Seattle radio, TV, and newspaper personality is justly regarded as an amenable authority on every aspect of plants, vegetables, and lawn maintenance. A modestly priced, year-round, full-bloom resource.