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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Flowers
Tuberous begonias are sensational flowers--their abundant blooms
capture everyone's heart and eye. This authoritative guide
introduces the best varieties and celebrates the great range of
colors grown. Written by Jack Larter, who has devoted many years of
love and toil to the plants, it covers everything that both novice
and veteran need to know to grow blooms for the home, garden, and
show bench.
This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care,
with step-by-step instructions and over 150 beautiful photographs.
It features full photographic directory of over 40 varieties,
including cluster-flowered roses, miniature roses, ground-cover
roses, large-flowered roses and rugosa roses. 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 using roses for
hedging and ground cover, and combining them with other plants. It
is a highly accessible guide to some of the world's best-loved
plants, celebrating their diversity and beauty. It offers
everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and superbly
illustrated practical guide. The rose is the quintessential flower
of the summer, and apart from the beauty of the flowers, many
modern varieties have the twin advantages of a long flowering
season and disease resistance. With hues ranging from delicate
pastels to glowing reds, yellows and oranges, the range has never
been wider, encompassing roses for growing en masse or in
conjunction with other plants, as hedges, ground cover or in
containers. This beautiful book explains how to use modern roses to
their best advantage, and features a directory of over 40
varieties. There are practical instructions for planting,
propagating and pruning roses, ensuring a magnificent display in
all types of garden.
Fuchsias - The New Cultivars follows George Bartlett's first
volume, Fuchsias - A Colour Guide, profiling another 1500 newly
created cultivars with over 500 colour photographs. Starting with
practical advice from an expert on how to care for this beautiful
plant , it then updates the fuchsia enthusiast and specialist with
entries on the very latest cultivars.
This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many
cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself
as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers. Ever since
Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower has
captured the imagination in quite the same way. Wherever it has
grown, human beings have projected on to it their dreams and
aspirations. Celebrated as a sacred symbol and as a token of
womanhood, the rose unites Venus with the Virgin Mary, the blood of
Christ with the sweat of Muhammad, the sacred and the profane, life
and death, the white rose of chastity and the red rose of
consummation. In The Rose, the acclaimed horticultural historian
Jennifer Potter shows what, exactly, gives this most fragrant
flower its potency in societies around the world. Beginning her
story in the Greek and Roman empires, she travels across Europe,
the Middle East, Asia and the Americas to unravel its evolution
from a simple briar of the northern hemisphere to the height of
cultivated perfection found in rose gardens today. Whether laying
bare the flower's long association with sexuality and secret
societies, questioning the Crusaders' role in bringing roses back
from the Holy Land, or hunting for its elusive blooms in the
gardens of the Empress Josephine at Malmaison, Jennifer Potter
reveals why this flower, above all others, has provoked such
fascination.
Everyone loves flowers. We grow them with a passion and crave
helpful advice on nurturing them in our gardens. A great, friendly,
indispensable book, THE FLOWER GARDENER'S BIBLE is written with wit
and authority by Lewis and Nancy Hill, who share both their joy in
growing flowers and more than 75 years of combined experience. In
the same format as the very successful The Vegetable Gardener's
Bible, this new primer is both painstakingly thorough and
stunningly photographed. It covers every facet of growing
perennials, annuals, bulbs, wildflowers, small trees, vines, and
shrubs for season-long colour and beauty. It is organized in three
sections, and the first focuses on the basics - choosing the right
varieties for your zone and type of garden, and planning and
planting for maximum impact. The second section presents plans for
25 distinctively themed gardens. And finally, a photographic
encyclopaedia of more than 400 species includes detailed
descriptions of each plant - garden uses, susceptibility to pests
and diseases, propagation methods, and more.
Over 500 annuals suitable to MN & WI climate. How & when to
start your plants. Tips on planting, growing, recommended varities,
problems & pests.
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