Color, leaf, and texture tend to dominate gardeners’ criteria when it comes to plant selection. But in the garden, floral scent is often the most powerfully sensual experience. In this book, expert gardener Ann Lovejoy recommends and describes over 300 scented flowers that will provide fragrant beauty throughout the year. And because night-bloomers have some of the most aromatic scents, they get a chapter of their own. Here are profiles of longtime garden favorites such as roses and magnolia, as well as forgotten charmers like night phlox and the intoxicating datura. The descriptions include expert cultivation tips to attain the best results.
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"Passionate in her approach, yet grounded in common sense and sound practices." --Booklist (for AL’s Organic Garden…) "Lovejoy’s pulsating prose jibes nicely with Allan Mandell’s lushly evocative photographs. I found much inspiration in these page
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Ann Lovejoy has written more than 18 books. A garden writer for 15 years and the author of a weekly column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, she lives on Bainbridge Island, WA. Photographer Lynne Harrison lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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A superb book on gardening,
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This review is from: Fragrance in Bloom: The Scented Garden Throughout the Year (Paperback)
In Fragrance In Bloom: The Scented Garden Throughout The Year, expert horticulturist and veteran garden writer and columnist Ann Lovejoy has once again created a superb book on gardening. This time, as the title suggests, Ann focuses upon gardening for the fragrances that various garden plants and flowers can bring throughout the growing cycles of spring, summer and fall. Beautifully enhanced with gorgeous full color photography by Lynne Harrison, Fragrance In Bloom is confidently recommended reading -- especially for the novice garden wanting to cultivate a truly memorable, imaginative, and fragrant garden offering a true diversity of aromatic scents. Also very highly recommended are two of Ann Lovejoy's previous works: Naturalistic Gardening and The Garden In Bloom.
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This review is from: Fragrance in Bloom: The Scented Garden Throughout the Year (Paperback)
There are few garden/design books I find to include in my personal library but this one's a keeper! It is a compact little book but packed with a wealth of info--nothing overwhelming, beautiful photographs and very useful in planning for year-round fragrance. She also gives suggestions for alternatives to plants listed in the book, which is also nice. Highly recommended from a novice to a seasoned gardener
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Well-written and Beautiful Photos,
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I've really enjoyed this book and refer to it with each season. The photos are stunning, and the author includes tons of ideas as far as layout and plant selection.
I plan on using this book for years to come.
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"Strolling through the garden on an early summer morning, tea mug in hand, the gardener is greeted by the intensely green smell of dew-spangled lawn, the mild fragrance of opening daylilies, the mellow scent of spearmint brushed by trailing fingers." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laurel spurge, fragrance effects, gold band lilies, bush clematis, chocolate cosmos, aged manure, trumpet lilies, sweet box, fragrant plants, creamy flowers, star magnolia, sweet alyssum, named forms, sweet violets, madonna lilies, fragrant cloud Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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"Strolling through the garden on an early summer morning, tea mug in hand, the gardener is greeted by the intensely green smell of dew-spangled lawn, the mild fragrance of opening daylilies, the mellow scent of spearmint brushed by trailing fingers." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
laurel spurge, fragrance effects, gold band lilies, bush clematis, chocolate cosmos, aged manure, trumpet lilies, sweet box, fragrant plants, creamy flowers, star magnolia, sweet alyssum, named forms, sweet violets, madonna lilies, fragrant cloud Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Autumn Fragrances, Summer Fragrances, South African, New England, Ginger Rogers, Pacific Northwest New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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