From humble marigolds to perfumed exotics like heliotrope, trace sunny summer through a colorful progression of flowers in gardens large and small. Cultivate every beautiful plant and blossom you see here, with the tips on seed sowing, planting out, dead-heading, color scheming, and seed collecting. The season begins with the soft tints of early summer pansies and forget-me-nots, azure love-in-a-mist, and indigo larkspur. Midsummer's warm palette includes honey-scented petunias, and as the season fades, rich purples and crimson tints appear, along with faded blossoms, ripe with the seeds of promise for next summer. A Selection of BOMC's Country Book Club.
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This lovely, oversized photo book follows a seasonal flower garden from earliest spring through first frost. Because annuals flower over a long season, it is worthwhile to concentrate on color effects that will last for months, and Ethne Clarke provides both written instruction and visual inspiration to do so. Familiar annuals such as sunflowers and nasturtiums are given as much attention as the more exotic Cosmos atrosanguinea (chocolate cosmos) or red orache, with special notice given to scent and foliage effects. Ribbons of annuals twining throughout borders, hedged gardens stuffed full of poppies or pansies, pots overflowing with nicotiana, cutting gardens, and flowery meadows--all the ideas and details are here, illustrated in full-page color photography. --Valerie Easton
From Library Journal
At first glance, these books appear similar: they cover the same ground, offer stunning photographs, and are written by well-qualified authors and lecturers. Hogue owns a specialty nursery near Toronto and appears frequently on radio and television. Clarke (Gardening with Foliage Plants, LJ 6/1/97) is known internationally as a lecturer on garden history and design. But the books are very different in tone, approach, and style. Amazing Annuals is a practical reference source that begins with an essay on the origins and uses of annuals. Hogue provides lists of annuals for various situations, then discusses color, fragrance, and container gardening. The core of the book is an alphabetical list of annuals, with descriptions, color photos, and growing conditions. Hogue gives good instructions for starting annuals from seed, pointing out that it is the only way to escape the limited variety offered as plants by garden centers. An extensive chart at the end of the book lists even more annuals than are included in the photo section, with description, height, colors, moisture, soil, light requirements, germination, and comments. Selected sources of annuals in North America, England, and on the Internet are included. Three Seasons of Summer is written in a narrative style that is at times poetic and includes anecdotes and personal experiences. Heuff's breathtaking photographs show annuals growing in borders, potagers, meadows, and containers, often in two-page spreads. They illustrate combinations of colors, textures, and heights, taking the reader from early spring through late fall. Although Clarke now lives in Texas, this is an English gardening book and not practical for North American gardeners. But in any case this is not a how-to book, instead providing pleasure and inspiration that can be translated to other environments. Both titles introduce readers to new annuals and provide creative ideas for their use. If your budget only allows one book, Amazing Annuals is the better choice for North American libraries.ACarol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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