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' How to Grow Plants from Seeds is a great little book - a
hand-holding, step-by-step guide with clear pictures and
instructions. It demystifies the process and covers flowers as well
as vegetables and herbs. A most useful present for anyone wanting
to get started on sowing seeds.' Country Living 'Whether you want
to grow a cutting garden or a harvest of fresh produce, discover
the basic rules for success.' The Garden How To Grow Plants From
Seeds does away, once and for all, with the idea that there's
something difficult about growing direct from seed. There's no need
to rely on the professionals to raise seedlings for you: seeds are
not only cheap to buy and environmentally friendly but, if you
follow a few basic rules, they're also fantastically rewarding, not
least because a single packet will usually leave you with plenty of
spares to swap with fellow enthusiasts. Whether you're a novice or
an experienced gardener, if you want to nurture an impressive
cutting garden or aim to have a bounteous harvest of fruit and
vegetables, here's what you need to know, presented in a
straightforward and accessible way. You'll discover the basic rules
for different seeds, their sowing preferences (Indoor, under cover
or direct- to-plot? Surface-sow or cover up? Water or spray?), how
long they take to germinate, and how to prick out, pot on and raise
your infant plants to become sturdy, productive adults. The book
opens with a basic primer showing how seeds work, to give every
grower the best chance at success. This is followed by extensive
chapters on raising food and flowers from seed with plenty of
detailed plant profiles included, and finally there's a guide to
collecting seeds from your plants and how to save and swap - so
that you, too, can become a seed evangelist.
'I absolutely adore Clare Nolan's approaches to garden planning and
creative use of color in her designs. This gem is sure to delight
any flower lover.' - Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farm Planting
cut flowers brings that 'grow-your-own' excitement to a whole new
level - being able to step out of the back door and pick a single
stem for beside the bed or pull together a posy for a friend is a
joy. In this beautifully designed book, brimming with inspirational
photographs, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a
bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular homegrown displays
that will fill your home with colour and the gorgeous scent of the
garden year-round. She takes the mystique out of what to grow and
guides you through the entire process - from choosing the plants to
suit both your garden and home decor and laying out your cutting
patch, to planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of colour,
texture and shape to play with at the right time. A whole chapter
on arranging will inspire you to create spectacular arrangements
for your home without the need for complicated floristry
techniques.
*Winner of the Garden Media Guild's The Peter Seabrook Practical
Book of the Year Award 2022 From the creator of the wildly popular
website "Vertical Veg" and with over 200k people in his online
community of growers, comes the complete guide to growing delicious
fruit, vegetables, herbs, and salad in containers, pots, and
more--in any space, from window boxes to garden yards, no matter
how small! "[A] thorough and enthusiastic guide to vegetable
gardening . . . both handy and hefty...Aspiring urban gardeners
will want to give this a look."--Publishers Weekly If you long to
grow your own tomatoes, zucchini, or strawberries, but thought you
didn't have enough space, Mark Ridsdill Smith, aka the "Vertical
Veg Man," will show you how to make the most of walls, balconies,
patios, arches, and windowsills. Ridsdill Smith has spent over ten
years teaching people to grow bountiful, edible crops in all kinds
of containers in small spaces. Inside The Vertical Veg Guide to
Container Gardening, you'll find: Mark's "Eight Steps to Success"
How to make the most of your space How to draw up a planning
calendar so you can grow throughout the year Planting projects for
beginners Compost recipes and wormery guide for the more
experienced gardener Troubleshoots for specific challenges of
growing in small spaces How growing food at home can contribute to
wellbeing and the local community With quick, proven results from
his own tests, failures, and successes, Mark will show you how
gardening in containers is not just a hobby, but a way of creating
a significant amount of delicious, low-cost, high nutrition food.
Don't be confined by the space you have--grow all the food you want
with Mark's Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening.
This title is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and
care, with step-by-step instructions and over 160 beautiful
photographs. Everything you need to know at a glance in one handy
and stunningly illustrated practical guide. It offers full
photographic directory of over 50 of the most common varieties of
heather from the three genuses of Calluna, Doboecia and Erica. For
each variety, full botanical information is provided on history,
growth, hue, height, spread and suitability. It offers step-by-step
guidance on planting, propagation and pruning, and how to deal with
common pests and diseases. It includes instructions on growing
heather in outdoor borders, raised beds, containers, hanging
baskets and indoors. It is a highly accessible guide to some of the
most popular flowering plants, celebrating their year-round beauty.
Heathers are not only able to survive and flourish in even the most
severe climates, but they also provide bright flowers throughout
the year, with many that also boast attractive year-round foliage.
This combination of hardiness and beauty, along with relative ease
of cultivation and care, makes heathers a wonderfully versatile
feature in any garden. This book explains how to use heathers to
their best advantage, from achieving seasonal interest to combining
with other plants. A fully illustrated directory of 50 recommended
varieties, together with professional advice on where to plant
them, will help you to create pretty displays in beds, borders,
containers and indoors.
This complete guide gives all the information you need to choose,
grow, and appreciate the beardless iris-from basic planting
information to help beginners, to the essential hybridizing details
that horticulturists need. Beardless irises are cousins of the more
familiar bearded irises, but are much more variable, with plants
ranging from four-inch-tall dwarfs with tiny flowers to five-foot
stalks with dinner-plate-size flowers. In addition, beardless
irises of at least one type will grow in virtually every gardening
situation from dry shade to standing water in full sun. No other
group of perennials offers such versatility. Here, all five major
groups are covered in detail: Siberian, Japanese, Pacific Coast
Native, spuria, and Louisiana. The garden uses, development of the
modern hybrids, and recommended cultures are given for each of the
diverse groups of beardless irises. In addition, a separate chapter
covers the techniques for creating your own beardless hybrids.
This title helps you brighten up your garden with vibrant flowers
and foliage, with 120 beautiful photographs. You can discover the
versatility and range of annual plants for every place in your
garden, from beds to window boxes. You can make the most of
continuously beautiful blooms, leaves and stems throughout every
season of the year. You can enjoy stunning, healthy plants - from
asters and geraniums to poppies and sunflowers - with advice on
making the best choices, planting and maintenance. It features an
at-a-glance reference chart giving plant descriptions and a guide
to annuals' common names. The wonderful benefit of annuals is their
ability to transform the garden almost immediately after planting.
This handy book is an instant guide to the wide variety of annuals,
biennials and tender perennials that have vibrant flowers and
foliage, with suggestions suitable for every season and garden
location. There is also advice on using different shades and tones
to achieve eye-catching effects, from stunning reds and oranges to
cool blues and creams. Packed with invaluable practical
information, from sowing your own seeds to maintaining plants, and
illustrated with 120 wonderful photographs, this is the perfect
handbook for gardeners who want reliable results.
The title might sound like a bold statement, but you really will be
able to garden by the end of this book. Whether you are a budding
botanist or just aspire to have greener fingers, this book will
hold your 'horticultural hand' and guide you gently through the
principles of gardening. Whether you have a tiny courtyard or
something a bit bigger, this book will share everything you need to
know to create your own patch of horticultural heaven. With 12
easy-to-follow chapters that explore all the basics of successful,
stress-free gardening including assessing and designing your
garden, how to grow fruit and vegetables, plant maintenance,
propagation, lawns and container garden. The 15 step-by-step
techniques will teach you how to sow seeds, prune shrubs, cut a
hedge, mow a lawn and even how to design your own outside space,
plus so much more. Just as important, the book explains how to
garden sustainably and encourage wildlife, so that you can make
informed decisions when it comes to creating and maintaining your
garden.
Create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift. Green
spaces are the perfect antidote to fast city living. Learn how to
create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift's
practical, easy-to-follow advice. From courtyards to rooftops,
transform awkward and unexciting spaces with inspirational ideas
and solutions. Whatever you want your green space to look like and
be used for, Joe's no-nonsense approach guides you through issues
such as privacy, boundaries and shade, to growing plants in areas
with little to no soil. The wider environmental benefits are
significant - helping to reduce pollution and minimise the heat
island effect (a result of the hardscape in towns and cities). The
plants will increase biodiversity, and many will be an important
year-round resource for wildlife. In this book, Joe covers a vast
range of exciting, impactful and innovative ways to stamp your
personality on your outdoor space. He demonstrates how to use
paving, boundaries, containers, furniture, water and sculpture to
help structure and define, and how to give the starring role to the
plants you choose to draw the seasons into our towns and cities.
Joe Swift is an author, TV presenter and garden designer. He makes
regular appearances on BBC's Gardener's World and the RHS Flower
Shows
Dwarf and median bearded irises are the little floral jewels of the
gardening world, extending the iris season by six to eight weeks
with great panache. Relatively new on the horticultural scene,
these small and miniature replicas of larger bearded irises have
nevertheless taken it by storm, because their 4-to-27-inch height
makes them the perfect size for most American gardens. Dr. Kevin
Vaughn, who has hybridized these irises over a 50-year period in
diverse climates, describes all five dwarf and median bearded-iris
classes. He offers suggestions both for historical and modern
cultivars, describes best cultivation practices, and details
hybridizing methods. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 color
photos of outstanding specimens, this comprehensive book is both
for beginners who want to try some of the hottest perennials on the
market, and for seasoned iris growers who want to learn more about
their favorite plant.
2012 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this
unique and fascinating book, two collectors of pictorial symbols
tell the story of flower symbolism, explaining its religious,
magical and legendary significance and revealing hundreds of
curious and little know facts. This is an essential work for
folklorists, for artists and designers in all fields, for botanical
and gardening specialists, and for all those who would be familiar
with the hidden language of flowers, plants and trees. Profusely
illustrated.
Orchids have always inspired passion. Their exotic flowers and
vibrant colours draw people in, but their reputation as fussy and
difficult to grow keep many houseplant fans from adding them to
their home decor. But orchids can be easy to grow and Marc
Hachadourian, the curator of the orchid collection at the New York
Botanical Garden, details exactly how in his new book. Orchid
Modern includes basic information on potting, watering, and care.
Hachadourian profiles the top 100 plant picks, focusing on
varieties that are readily available and easy to grow. Step-by-step
projects, including a jewel orchid terrarium, an orchid wreath, an
orchid kokedama, and a woodland centerpiece, will inspire readers
to express their individual style and add orchids to their home
decor. Packed with accessible information and hundreds of stylish
photographs, Orchid Modern demystifies this intimidating plant and
offers inspiration for modern styling.
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