500 Popular Annuals & Perennials for American Gardeners [Paperback]

Loretta Barnard (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1999

Virtually everything gardeners need to know about annuals and perennials comes together in this handsome, heavily illustrated book. Comprehensive advice focuses on planting, cultivation, and flowering times of plants, with suggestions for attention-catching color combinations in gardens, or in containers for terraces, decks, and patios.

Profiles of plants are arranged alphabetically, with each entry presenting - Descriptions, Cultivation advice, Planting times - Flowering seasons, Climate information, including reference to a climate zone map.

Extensive advice is offered on garden arrangements, seed collection and propagation, watering, mulch and nutrition, general maintenance, and many other useful topics. Full-color photographs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764111779
• ISBN-13: 978-0764111778
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,877,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The complete home planting reference bible!, January 23, 2001

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Kelli Brose (Port Orchard, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 500 Popular Annuals & Perennials for American Gardeners (Paperback)

I found this book to have all of the plants that I had and some I wanted. Each reference detailed the growing properties and the methods for any area. I liked the simple format and the easy to read text. There were even tips on what to grow in my shady and wet back yard! I would suggest this book for anyone wanting to learn and as a reference for the things they already have!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ***** A "MUST HAVE" FOR BEGINNING GARDENERS!*****, January 31, 2002

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"tlaloc7" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 500 Popular Annuals & Perennials for American Gardeners (Paperback)

I am only in my second year of gardening, planning my second garden, and this book has been and continues to be a GREAT resource for me! The photos are gorgeous, the text jam-packed with helpful information, and the tables (in the beginning and at the back) are very useful for figuring out what will grow when in the season!

This book has me seriously excited about spring - I can't wait to get planting!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful photos, February 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: 500 Popular Annuals & Perennials for American Gardeners (Paperback)

I bought this book for myself after I discovered a hidden love of flower gardening. The photos are so colorful and beautiful and they've really helped me choose which flowers to add to my garden this year. The sturdy magazine-like paperback with plastic cover is durable, and not to mention water-resistant (at least the cover). I suggest using the index to find particular flowers unless you are very familiar with botanical names. The plants are listed alphabetically by botanical name, not by common name. This is a good starting book for beginner flower gardeners- it sort of reads like the back of a seed packet. The book looks small, but by keeping each plant description short but informative, they've really paked a lot of information into it.