Stunning flower gardens that bloom through the seasons depend on the artful combination of annuals, perennials, and bulbs. In this lavishly illustrated book, Anne Halpin shows the reader how to grow these plants and gives foolproof design techniques for any landscape. The extensive section on using color in the garden can guide you through the tricky process of plant placement and selection. Practical techniques are emphasized too. The reader will learn how to care for soil, start plants from seeds, grow and care for plants in containers, and maintain plants and gardens. Sections on dividing plants, lifting bulbs, and saving seeds are also included.
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"Lifelong gardener Anne Halpin draws upon her many years of experience and expertise in Annuals, Perennials & Bulbs: Designing, Planting, Maintaining to offer the home gardener and landscaper a detailed guide to creating beds and borders that will showcase these garden plants to their best advantage."
James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review
James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review
"Very highly recommended for novice gardeners, and with much value for experienced horticulturists and landscapers, Annuals, Perennials & Bulbs will aptly serve as a continuing reference for the complex task of plant placement and selection."
James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review
January 2002
James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review
January 2002
"Annuals, Perennials & Bulbs provides more than 600 colorful illustrations and photographs along with valuable information on each type of plant. Well-known garden writer Anne Halpin draws from her extensive personal experience to share tips for success.... Halpin's foolproof design techniques provide flower gardens that bloom through the season with her unique combination of plants. Each topic provides a lot of details with photos to provide a clear look at what is being discussed."
Seymour Tribune, Seymour, Indiana
April 2002
Seymour Tribune, Seymour, Indiana
April 2002
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Both beginning and experienced gardeners will love this book. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of over 100 flowering plants, Annuals, Perennials, & Bulbs is also filled with instructional photographs and illustrations. In addition to learning how to plant and care for your ornamental plants, you'll also learn how to design a garden for color and foliage interest through the season.
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More than 50 watercolor illustrations,
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Lifelong gardener Anne Halpin draws upon her many years of experience and expertise in Annuals, Perennials & Bulbs: Designing, Planting, Maintaining to offer the home gardener and landscaper a detailed guide to creating beds and borders that will showcase these garden plants to their best advantage. Halpin provides 40 step-by-step photo sequences taking the aspiring gardening through essential gardening tasks, as well as in-depth profiles of 125 favorite garden planes, enhanced with 600 color photographs (many of them clearly illustrating essential gardening techniques) and more than 50 watercolor illustrations. Very highly recommended for novice gardeners, and with much of value for experienced horticulturalists and landscapers, Annuals, Perennials & Bulbs will aptly serve as a continuing reference for the complex task of plant placement and selection.
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Flowers are like nature's jewelry, with their gemlike colors adorning the landscape at various times during the growing season. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
propagate new plants, blooming time, white perianth, last expected frost, bicolored flowers, checker lily, good cultivars, sapphire flower, wishbone flowers, salvia species, tolerates some drought, great blue lobelia, dianthus species, deadhead flowers, average fertility, taller cultivars, balsam impatiens, airy location, good cut flowers, cardinal climber, sow indoors, rose moss, start seeds indoors, magic lilies, summer until frost Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Garden Uses, Introducing Perennials, Introducing Bulbs, New Guinea, North America, Cooperative Extension, Begonia Semperflorens-Cultorum, Recommended Species New!
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Flowers are like nature's jewelry, with their gemlike colors adorning the landscape at various times during the growing season. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
propagate new plants, blooming time, white perianth, last expected frost, bicolored flowers, checker lily, good cultivars, sapphire flower, wishbone flowers, salvia species, tolerates some drought, great blue lobelia, dianthus species, deadhead flowers, average fertility, taller cultivars, balsam impatiens, airy location, good cut flowers, cardinal climber, sow indoors, rose moss, start seeds indoors, magic lilies, summer until frost Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Garden Uses, Introducing Perennials, Introducing Bulbs, New Guinea, North America, Cooperative Extension, Begonia Semperflorens-Cultorum, Recommended Species New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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