Flowering Bulbs for Dummies [Paperback]

Judy Glattstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 1998 | Series: For Dummies

Get all the dirt on growing brilliant flowering bulbs, from traditional tulips to exotic fritillaria, all year 'round. Down-to-earth advice, step-by-step instructions, and dozens of colorful photos help you transform anyplace that has soil into a dazzling showcase of color and fragrance. Whether you're on new ground or firmly rooted in the perennial passions of bulb gardening, one guide is certain to help your creativity bloom -- Flowering Bulbs For Dummies.

Choose from dozens of flowering bulbs for any climate with the fun and friendly tips you'll find sown throughout Flowering Bulbs For Dummies. Design an impressive garden with the space you have -- big or small, inside or out -- and find out how to make your bulbs bloom year after color-filled year. Grow your flowering bulbs in containers, minimize the annual onslaught of pests and diseases, and discover the ten best bulbs for cut-flower bouquets, along with pages and pages of hands-on advice for where to buy the best bulbs, from Acidanthera murialae to Zephyranthes grandiflora!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Bulb plants such as tulips, lilies, daffodils, and hyacinths are the beautiful workhorses of the outdoor garden, producing a wonderfully showy display every spring (usually just when you've given up on the idea of winter ever leaving), then disappearing tidily until the following year--no muss, no fuss. Of course, there are also summer- and fall-blooming bulbs, tuber plants such as dahlias, and tender exotic bulbs that prefer to winter in temperate indoor climes each year. Whatever your tastes and level of gardening savvy, Flowering Bulbs for Dummies reveals the secrets of choosing the right bulbs for your garden and planting them where they'll flower most flashily. It also offers tips on forcing bulbs, container growing, and selecting the most fragrant varieties to please the nose as well as the eye. Like all Dummies titles, this one doesn't skimp in the resource section--there are dozens of reliable bulb suppliers listed in the appendix. --Barrie Trinkle

From the Back Cover

"What a joy it is to have this book available to all gardeners." — Dan Davids, President, Davids & Royston Bulb Co., Inc., Leading Flowering Bulb Wholesaler "This book covers just about every aspect of bulb gardening!" — Brent & Becky Heath, authors of Daffodils for American Gardens

Includes a Complete Bulb Selection Guide!

To Every Season — Bulbs, Bulbs, Bulbs Get all the dirt on growing brilliant flowering bulbs all year around — from traditional tulips to exotic fritillaria! With down-to-earth advice, step-by-step instructions, and dozens of inspirational photos, you'll quickly and easily transform any space into a brilliant array of color and fragrance. Whether you're on new ground with bulb gardening or firmly rooted in this perennial passion, there's one guide that's certain to help your creativity blossom — Flowering Bulbs For Dummies^®! Discover great online & mail-order resources

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (August 19, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764551035
• ISBN-13: 978-0764551031
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,389,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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