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An American Cutting Garden - A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers are Hot and Winters are Cold (Hardcover)
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An American Cutting Garden - A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers are Hot and Winters are Cold (Hardcover)
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Any avid gardener knows the frustration of searching in vain for
realistic and practical gardening resources. Coffee-table books
full of lush images of English country gardens and technical
volumes on landscape design are of little use to
dirt-under-the-nails gardeners seeking straight answers to
questions about planning a cutting garden that really produces.
Suzanne McIntire provides a bumper crop of such down-to-earth help
in An American Cutting Garden. Using both common and botanical
names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous
perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs and provides sensible
directions for choosing ideal plants. Often illustrating her advice
with personal accounts of mistakes and successes, McIntire supplies
information on a wide range of topics: how many plants are needed
of any one kind, when and how to successfully sow seed outdoors,
the heat-hardiness of plants, and strategies for coping with the
effects of hot summers and cold winters. She also describes the
simple and rewarding ""haphazard school"" of flower arranging.
Special chapters sympathetically address the beginner's cutting
garden, a cutting garden for small spaces and another for shade,
and autumn in the cutting garden. A series of invaluable appendices
offer instruction for starting seed under lights, list plants that
self-sow in the author's garden, and provide sources for plants.
From the earliest pansy (Viola x wittrockiana) to the latest
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum pacificum), a unique section lists
hundreds of plants in order of bloom throughout the growing year,
enabling both the novice and the experienced gardener to plan for
complementary blooms and to extend the cut-flower season. An
American Cutting Garden is a real gardener's gardening book and
will be enormously helpful even to those who don't grow flowers for
cutting.
General
Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2002 |
First published: |
2002 |
Authors: |
Suzanne McIntire
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-2062-7 |
Categories: |
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Sport & Leisure >
General
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LSN: |
0-8139-2062-0 |
Barcode: |
9780813920627 |
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