Can't Miss Flower Gardening [Paperback]

Teri Dunn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Can't Miss | Publication Date: January 20, 2005

Can't Miss Flower Gardening introduces the reader to gardening, how to be successful with flowers and provides "Can't Miss" advice that builds confidence.

The book also explains how to use flowers as the primary focal point in the landscape, as accents, as companions with other plant varieties. It also includes:

• How to choose plants
• How to create a border
• How to properly handle flowers for bouquets
• How to plant and maintain various flowering plants
• Simple design techniques
• How to protect flowering plants during cold months

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

The book also explains how to use flowers as the primary focal point in the landscape, as accents, as companions with other plant varieties. It also includes: How to choose plants How to create a border How to properly handle flowers for bouquets How to plant and maintain various flowering plants Simple design techniques How to protect flowering plants during cold months.

About the Author

Dunn is a writer and editor based in Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (January 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591861578
• ISBN-13: 978-1591861577
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,288,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 30 titles in publication (Friedman-Fairfax, Cool Springs Press, Timber Press). She's written and edited extensively for several major gardening publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Birds & Blooms, Backyard Living).

She brings complex scientific and environmental topics to general audiences in her engaging and accurately researched articles for various regional magazines, including the local Audubon Magazine and the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal.

For clients ranging from Reader's Digest to Storey Publishing to Harris Publications, she project-manages (edits, writes, photo-researches) other authors' books as well as consumer SIPs (Special-Interest Publications). She is also an accomplished travel and food writer.

As a Senior Copywriter, she has worked on-staff and as a consultant to numerous direct-marketing companies (B-to-B as well as B-to-C), from pet supplies to roses to outdoor-living products/furnishings to scented candles. Her copywriting for Jackson & Perkins gained her the industry's highest award, The Catalog Age Gold Award.

She has written and edited for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and Roadsideonline.com), on topics ranging from "Why Greeks and Diners?" to urban- planning issues to comfort-food recipes to iconic on-the-road books.

The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.

Born in California and educated at Bard College in New York, Teri lived for many years on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the ruggedly beautiful rocky coast north of Boston. She now lives in a small upstate New York village where the summers are glorious and the winters are very, very snowy.

She works under the following names: Teri Dunn, Teri Chace, Teri Dunn Chace, Julie Drysdale.

Her website (with clickable work samples) is:
http://terichacewriter.com/

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A winner for the beginner!, April 29, 2006

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Leslie Harstad-bell "Buggs Bunny" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can't Miss Flower Gardening (Paperback)

This book is extremely user friendly, especially for the beginner flower gardener. The first five chapters give basic gardening how-to information, which is similar to what you might find in any gardening book. Where Can't Miss Flower Gardening really shines is in it's plant directory. Each plant description is accompanied by a bright, detailed photo at the top of the page, and a collection of icons (depicting such qualities as "native plant", "drought resistant", "attracts butterflies", "has fragrance", as well as sun/ shade requirements) at the bottom. In addition, the pages are color-coded by plant type, from annuals to perennials to flowering shrubs to bulbs, to flowering trees. This makes finding the right plant for a tricky spot in your garden quick and easy. When I first picked up this book, I had a large garden space to fill and knew virtually nothing about which plants would do best in which spots.

This book was my savior! A quick scan through the extensive flower-index allowed me to pick out just the right flowers for each spot. As the title promises, I haven't missed yet! The garden is getting rave reviews from neighbors, visitors, and passers-by.

Very passionate gardeners will probably already be familiar with the species listed here, however. It only covers the tried-and-true, and those seeking something a little bit newer and more exciting for their gardens will probably be dissapointed.

But if you are just getting started, this book will be your new best friend!