The Cutting Garden [Paperback]

Rob Proctor (Author)

Book Description

Series: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin) | Publication Date: February 2, 2000

Few things are more beautiful than a bouquet of flowers, and growing and cutting your own adds immeasureably to the pleasure a bouquet brings. In this book, illustrated with 50 inspiring color photographs, the gardener's cut-flower season extends from late winter, with shrubs and trees to force indoors, through the spring and summer flowers -- bulbs, annuals, perennials -- the "everlastings" you can grow for winter's dried flower bouquets. Especially valuable are the sections on when and how to cut flowers, how to condition them, and suggestions on combining different flowers into carefree arrangements. The basic mechanics of flower arranging and photos of home-grown bouquets will encourage novice gardeners.

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About the Author

Rob Proctor is a prolific author, illustrator, photographer, and lecturer -- as well as a columnist for the Denver Post and an instructor at the Denver Botanic Gardens. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395829453
• ISBN-13: 978-0395829455
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,479,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lauren Springer Ogden worked in public gardens on both sides of the Atlantic before receiving her master's degree in horticulture from Penn State. At Denver Botanic Gardens, she designed the Watersmart and Romantic Gardens. An award-winning writer and photographer, she is a contributing editor for Horticulture magazine and author of The Undaunted Garden, named one of the 75 best American gardening books of the last century by the American Horticultural Society, and coauthor of Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates, which received the 2001 AHS Book Award. Lauren's gardens have been featured on television and in many publications, including The New York Times, Sunset Western Landscaping book, and The Collector's Garden. She is a popular speaker in the United States and Canada. Lauren and her husband Scott Ogden, also a horticulturist and writer, design and consult around the country. They garden together in Fort Collins, Colorado and Austin, Texas. Please visit their website at www.plantdrivendesign.com.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book, September 26, 2007

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Christy Steinke "Colorado Brit" (CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cutting Garden (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book. Beautiful photographs and lots of helpful suggestions for planning and making a cutting garden, and for arranging flowers. Also a large section describing plants suitable for a cutting garden. Well worth the money.