The Bedding Plant Expert (The Expert Series) [Paperback]

D.G. Hessayon (Author)

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Series: Expert | Publication Date: December 31, 1996

144 pages (all in color), 7 1/2 x 9 1/2.

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In this enlarged and updated book, Hessayon defines a bedding plant as one that is moved at the leafy stage to its place in the garden or in a container, where it provides a display for a limited period. He describes the six types of bedding plants, offers a short history of them (they date from the sixteenth century), and gives advice on buying and raising. There's an A-to-Z listing of 145 plants, each listing giving data on the plant's color, flowering period, size, varieties, light and soil requirements, and method of propagation. And each contains a color photograph of the plant. Also, there are chapters on using bedding plants and on color schemes, plant care, and pests and diseases. George Cohen

About the Author

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are over 51 million copies in print. He was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement 'Oscar' at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as 'Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s'. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0903505452
• ISBN-13: 978-0903505451
• Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 7.2 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,204,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Color Handbook , Better For Brits, April 3, 2006

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CarsPlants (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bedding Plant Expert (The Expert Series) (Paperback)

I bought this book a number of year ago, and it has served me well as a professional garden designer and caregiver. The colorful layout is very nice and easy to use, and few (if any) books have specific information that this one has on the newer, more unusual annuals.

However, the book does have the limitation for those of us in the USA that it is VERY British. All of the care instructions must be tempered by the fact that we are in a more extreme climate. And the book devotes a disproportionately large section to plants like sweet peas which are far more popular there than here. Also, some of the names have the more distinctly British names for crops, like Busy Lizzie for Impatiens.

With the huge variety of different species currently available, don't expect to find all of the most unusual species here, either, like Million Bells. (If it is there, I don't know by what name they are calling it - goes back to the previous paragraph's issues.)

All, in all, it is the best book on the subject I have seen, suitable for beginners and more advanced gardeners. However, it could stand some improvement in another edition by: 1. Having USA care instructions, and 2. Adding the latest bedding plants in the trade.