Burpee Complete Flower Gardener (Hardcover)

by Karan Davis Cutler (Author)

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Product Description
This full-color guide from the experts at Burpee shows you how to plan, plant, and maintain a beautiful flower garden using an environmentally responsible, organic approach. It offers authoritative guidance on creating borders and beds, combining flower colors and shapes, selecting gardening tools, and much more, and features encyclopedic Plant Portraits section with profiles of more than 175 flowers—annuals, perennials, and bulbs.

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Whether you want to start with a container flower garden to brighten a patio or create a landscape as lush as a Monet painting, this is the book for you. Burpee—The Complete Flower Gardener takes you from the ground up, with information on everything from choosing a site and preparing the soil to nourishing your flowers to full bloom and solving specific gardening problems. The authoritative yet unintimidating style of award-winning gardening writers Karan Davis Cutler and Barbara W. Ellis is perfect for beginners, while their in-depth knowledge makes this book invaluable to veteran flower gardeners.

Following an environmentally responsible, organic approach to flower gardening, Burpee—TheComplete Flower Gardener shows you how to assess local growing conditions and your site, and how to plan, plant, and maintain your garden. It presents ideas for creating borders and beds; tips on combining flower colors, shapes, and textures; advice about caring for your garden; counsel on buying must-have gardening tools; guidelines for avoiding a chemically dependent garden; and more. It also untangles the scores of terms you need to know as you choose your seeds or plants at a local nursery or peruse the colorful pages of a seductive garden catalog. The encyclopedic Plant Portraits section provides thorough profiles of more than 175 herbaceous flowers—annuals, perennials, andbulbs—with directions for choosing cultivars, cultivating and propagating them, and combining them with other plants in the garden. Gorgeous color photographs accompany every entry.

Whether used on its own or as the perfect companionto Burpee—The Complete Gardener and Burpee—The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener, thisbook has everything you could want or need to make your flower garden thrive.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543245
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543241
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #49,681 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winning Burpee gardening book!, January 14, 2007

By	Nature Lover - See all my reviews

My last gardening book was the "Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener:
A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically" written by the same author
as this book on flower gardening. Although the photos and layout are gorgeous
in this book, it is the writing that is truly stellar. For me, flower gardening
has been hiding bulbs from squirrels and scattering mixed wildflower seeds into
a section of unused vegetable garden, where the flowers eventually appear but I
have no idea what they actually are. But, because of this book, I now do know.
And I know so much more! The author quickly enveloped me in her eloquent
and witty prose and got me fascinated by historical and scientific topics
I never thought I'd find interesting. I enjoy just sitting down and
reading this book for the depth and variety of information it provides.
It's a perfect addition to any flower gardener's library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous book, May 28, 2007

By	M. Montgomery - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm thoroughly enjoying this book. I started by just looking at the excellent photos and perusing the informative Plant Portrait section (half the book!). I particularly liked the inclusion of related native plants in this section. Then I dove back into the first half of the book, with its helpful and friendly approach to all areas of flower gardening and its sidebar tips and lists. Whether you're an active long-time gardener, a wanna be or even an armchair gardener, this book will give you much pleasure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Winner, December 21, 2006

By	M. D. M. (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

The new Burpee Complete Flower Gardener by Cutler and Ellis is a treasure. Although written as an encyclopedia of perennial plants in alphabetical order and beautifully illustrated, it reads more like a a conversation with a fellow flower lover.