Cutting Gardens: The Complete Guide to Growing Flowers and Creating Spectacular Arrangements for Every Season and Every Region [Hardcover]

Anne Halpin (Author), Betty Mackey (Author), Derek Fell (Author)

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Publication Date: February 10, 1993

Fresh flowers add a unique touch of natural beauty and color to any home, but there's a special satisfaction in creating a lovely arrangement with flowers that you've grown yourself. Now comes a complete guide to growing flowers and creating spectacular arrangements, for every season and every region. Features more than 250 full-color photographs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 10, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671744410
• ISBN-13: 978-0671744410
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much more than beautiful pictures., June 30, 1998

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Susan Ritchie ([e-mail]) (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cutting Gardens: The Complete Guide to Growing Flowers and Creating Spectacular Arrangements for Every Season and Every Region (Hardcover)

This book's wealth of practical infomation is presented in a well thought out, easy to understand fashion. Chapters one through four are devoted to the planning of and caring for a cutting garden, as well as creating attractive floral arrangements. Without a doubt, though, my favorite section of the book is the 53 page Encyclopedia of Plants which lists 212 perennials, annuals, herbs, tubers, corms, bulbs, vines, shrubs, and, yes, even an occasional small tree which make suitable cut flowers. Each entry in the encyclopedia contains a photograph and description as well as tips on growing conditions, planting, care, and harvesting and conditioning. Ever wonder which cut flowers require searing, splitting or dipping into boiling water? You'll find the answers here!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No More Dead Flowers In Morning, August 20, 2000

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Robin Bird "ginko leaf chic" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cutting Gardens: The Complete Guide to Growing Flowers and Creating Spectacular Arrangements for Every Season and Every Region (Hardcover)

I happened on this book at my library and found it to be the most helpful and informative on cutting gardens, so I had to buy my own copy. This is the best I have found on cutting gardens because, not only does it cover what you need to know from the dirt to the final blossoms, but the encyclopedia of the plants is fantastic. The most helpful is the "HARVESTING AND CONDITIONING" information. My cut flowers where always dead by the next morning before I had this great information. This is a book you will refer to constantly. My copy already has those great dirty pages, a sign of a wonderful well used out in the garden book!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gardening Favorite, September 22, 2002

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cutting Gardens: The Complete Guide to Growing Flowers and Creating Spectacular Arrangements for Every Season and Every Region (Hardcover)

Although I'd rather grow plants indoors than cut flowers, there are moments when a fresh-cut bouquet of flowers can brighten up even the most dull day.

"One of the gardener's greatest pleasures is harvesting fragrant, colorful blossoms throughout the growing season. To bring fresh flowers indoors-with their heavenly scents, exquisite colors, and wonderful shapes and textures-is to bring indoors a little piece of paradise."

This is not an extensive book, but it is practical. The contents include:

Planning a Cutting Garden
Cutting Garden Plans
Growing Flowers for Cutting
Cutting and Arranging Flowers
Encyclopedia of Plants

You will also find page after page of freshly blooming flowers all in country-like
settings. The Encyclopedia of plants has a list of 200 plants with pictures. Each includes a description, planting zone information, planting information, care, harvesting and conditioning and uses.

Also includes:

Advice on planting seasonal selections.

Instructions on how to condition and arrange flowers so they last as long as possible.
Tips on designing with color and creating eye-catching color schemes.

Happy Gardening...

~The Rebecca Review