The Little Bulbs - A Tale of Two Gardens (Paperback)

This is designed for the advanced, almost the professional gardener; or in the amateur field, the specialist interested primarily in "little bulbs". The term is far more inclusive than one might think. It embraces a wide range the seasons round, from the earliest snowdrops, squills and daffodils, to hardy cyclamens, colchicum and crocuses, wood sorrels, little iris, ixias, tritonias, freesias, the lily family including such items as chiondoxia, mariposa tulips, fritellaria, hyacinth, on to trillium, wild tulips, clusiana and amaryllis - and many others whose names are much less familiar. The substance of the text is fairly technical, but it is lightened by personal experience, interchange of data on time of bloom, difficulty of culture, proper planting season, failures as well as successes. Primarily the book is based on two gardens:- Miss Lawrence's own small city backyard in North Carolina, and Mr. Krippendorf's acres of virgin forestland in southern Ohio. But in following her creed that no one can garden alone, she has drawn from gardeners from Texas to New England, she has read and written and gardened- and shared her findings with contagious enthusiasm. Final chapters tell of little bulbs indoors in pots- and sources of choice material the country over. (Kirkus Reviews)

"A beautifully written book."--"The Garden Journal"

"A few garden writers offer prose that goes beyond how to spade and spray to convey the experience and pleasures of gardening. The late Elizabeth Lawrence was such a writer."--"Southern Living"

"First published in 1957 and out-of-print for many years, this is a delightfully written and enormously informative introduction to the fascinating variety of little bulbs available to the gardener. The author discusses a wide variety of plants, both familiar and little-known, including crocuses, species daffodils, hardy cyclamen and lily-family members such as "Brodiaea, Bessera, " and "Calochortus."--American Horticulturist"

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1986
First published:	March 1986
Authors:	Elizabeth. Lawrence
Dimensions:	215 x 141 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	261
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-0739-6
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
LSN:	0-8223-0739-1
Barcode:	9780822307396

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