Complete Guide to Flower Gardening

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Better Homes and Gardens®
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This is truly the only book about flower gardening you will ever need.
The Complete Guide to Flower Gardening is an easy-to-use resource that educates beginners and inspires advanced gardeners with more than 400 pages of details and ideas—all carefully explained, efficiently organized, and complemented by hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
The book begins with the basics, serving as both a primer and an excellent reference guide on planning, preparing, and tending your flower garden. Then, to help you develop your garden artistry, an entire section is devoted to different styles of garden plans, including country, traditional, and naturalistic gardens, plus plans for problem sites and specific color schemes.
An excellent how-to guide, the Complete Guide to Flower Gardening also features a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 perennials, annuals, bulbs, roses, ornamental grasses, and ferns. Each listing is complete with a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Better Homes and Gardens®
FLCWER
This is truly the only book about flower gardening you will ever need.
The Complete Guide to Flower Gardening is an easy-to-use resource that educates beginners and inspires advanced gardeners with more than 400 pages of details and ideas—all carefully explained, efficiently organized, and complemented by hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
The book begins with the basics, serving as both a primer and an excellent reference guide on planning, preparing, and tending your flower garden. Then, to help you develop your garden artistry, an entire section is devoted to different styles of garden plans, including country, traditional, and naturalistic gardens, plus plans for problem sites and specific color schemes.
An excellent how-to guide, the Complete Guide to Flower Gardening also features a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 perennials, annuals, bulbs, roses, ornamental grasses, and ferns. Each listing is complete with a color photograph, plant description, and explanation of required growing conditions, making it easy to plan your garden additions.
Throughout the book, you'll also learn tips for success from gardeners
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nationwide, and you'll find flowers listed and categorized by everything from colors of blossoms to soil tolerance to regional favorites. A special resource section includes a list of mail-order nurseries and frost dates and hardiness zone maps—everything you need to ensure an abundance of flowers no matter where you live.
Comprehensive in scope and beautiful in execution, the Complete Guide to Flower Gardening will inspire you and give you the knowledge and confidence to create beautiful flower gardens. It is sure to become the most important voluine in your gardening library.
Susan A. Roth is a writer, photographer, and editor who specializes in gardening and landscaping. A dirt gardener with a master's degree in horticulture and botany from Cornell University, she is the author of several gardening books, and her photography appears in many books, magazines, and calendars. Roth, who has been honored by the Garden "Writers Association of America for her writing and photography, brings a rare combination of scientific background and hands-on gardening experience to her writing.
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