Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN num: 9780696208522
ISBN number: 0696208520
Label: Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 408
Printing Date: January 01, 2003
Publishing house: Better Homes and Gardens
Sale Popularity Level: 669523
Studio: Better Homes and Gardens
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Product Description:
Complete information on planning, designing, planting and caring for flower gardens.
Offers garden plans for country, traditional, and naturalistic gardens adaptable to any location and colour scheme.
More than 700 lush colour photos and illustrations offer both inspiration and instruction.
Encyclopedia features more than 450 species of flowers, ornamental grasses, and ferns.
Profiles flower gardeners from across the country who share their secrets for success.
Includes a handy list of mail-order nurseries, plus frost date and hardiness zone maps.
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Purchased for novice gardner who really wants to learn. Excellent pictures, descriptions, soil and light needs with colour cross references.
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This was my very first and only flower gardening guide. I used it as a novice gardener and still constantly refer to it, 6 years later. It is very easy to use and has a large bank of information on individual flowering plants. It has a picture for every plant, which is helpful and lots of very usable information on each plant. I use it as a guide to what to buy, how to plant and maintain my flowers. (It does not include information on bushes and shrubs.) It is an easy to use and very helpful guide for flowering plants.
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Nice looking book, good info! Nice addition to a gardening library.
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Of all the many flower gardening books I have, this one is THE BEST. It has everything you need to know in easy reference formats. Fabulous useful lists like "Long-Blooming Perennials" and "Easy Care Annuals" and "plants for wet or boggy sites" and "shade loving plants" and lists by color, shape and height are part of the very first section of the book, then the last section is an encyclopedia of annuals and perennials that tells all you need to know in a short section for each plant. There is much more. I use this more than any other garden book.
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First, let me explain, my husband is the gardener, I am the book reader, so we really got together on this one. He moves the perennials and shrubs around and changes the garden plan so often that I wouldn't dare endeavor to cross the garden at night without fear of running smack into a Burning Bush! The ultimate result of his long and dedicated devotion to the garden has produced some spectatular results and much can be attributed to this terrific book.
First of all, it told him everything he was doing wrong, and his response to that was, "Oh my ..., I've been working on this for five years and made every mistake in the book!" Secondly, it told him how to do it right. The book covers absolutely everything from planning, choosing the proper plants for the proper location and soil, and how to create symmetry in your garden. The photography is beautiful and the encyclopedia of garden plants is worth its weight in gold!
Three cheers for Better Homes and Gardens for giving us this "can't do without it book." Every gardener, hobbyist or professional, will find something of value here, and hopefully, you will learn where to put the Burning Bush....before it goes into the ground.
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