Tulips: For North American Gardens [Hardcover]

Becky Heath (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2001

This book distills all of the Heaths' wide knowledge and experience in the selection and culture of tulips, from the care and feeding of the bulbs themselves to the cutting and arranging of the flowers.

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About the Author

Brent Heath and Becky Heath are a husband-and-wife team of commercial floriculturists who operate an internationally known bulb farm. They lecture frequently, have been featured in Martha Stewart's syndicated column as well as on Martha Stewart Living, and have been written about in numerous publications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Bright Sky Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097047296X
• ISBN-13: 978-0970472960
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,364,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Manual at Bargain Price, June 12, 2006

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This review is from: Tulips for American Gardens (Hardcover)

'Tulips for American Gardens' by bulb retailers, Brent and Becky Heath is an excellent book on at least three counts, if you can get it for less than $10 and not at its list price of $24.95. The most important feature is the fact that it is all about tulips. There are no general facts which include daffodils, narcissus, corms, rhizomes, tubers, or other subterranean perennials. My practical experience says that tulips and daffodils require substantially different treatment, and this book tells all about tulips. The second special feature is the fact that the catalogue of tulip species and cultivars actually fits what I see in my favorite bulb dealer's catalogue. So many times, one sees no connection between cultivar names in texts and your favorite distributor. But, since virtually all tulips originate in Holland, everyone is pretty much working off the same page. The third virtue is that the book is dedicated to our own 'neighborhood', the planting zones of the United States.

While the book as printed is a bit pricy, it is a great source at discounted prices and there is nothing I needed to know which was not in here, most especially information on which cultivars naturalize well and which do not.