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Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello  Author: Edwin Morris Betts Paperback: 96 pages Company: University of Virginia Press (1986-12) ISBN: 0813910870 List Price: $10.95 Amazon Price: $6.80 Used Price: $0.28 The Complete Garden Flower Book : Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Shrubs, Climbers  The ultimate source of inspiration for the gardener, The Complete Garden Flower Book offers a host of ideas and advice about a vast range of different plants, from perennials to shrubs, herbs to cacti. This handy resource covers every flowering plant you can imagine and shows how to get the most from plants¾whether you want to create stunningly attractive individual features or to complement existing planting schemes. Gardeners are increasingly looking for more unusual planting ideas and The Complete Garden Flower Book explores the immense range of plants that are available today. The book looks at long-established favorites, providing a guide to growing both traditional plants such as honeysuckle and more unusual varieties such as Cymbidium orchid. Each section opens with an introduction to planting, followed by in-depth plant profiles. Each plant profile offers detailed at-a-glance information with a month-by-month reminder on how, when, and where to grow each plant. Easy-to-follow growing advice is included throughout on over 600 plants and the book also explores what can go wrong and how to protect different species. A comprehensive guide for both the novice and expert, The Complete Garden Flower Book includes everything you need to know to create a beautiful and harmonious flowering garden. Inspirational opening sections offer exciting ideas and useful tips, which will help you to choose the right plants for your garden. Flower Garden  Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden," and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise. Author: Eve Bunting Paperback: 32 pages Company: Voyager Books (2000-03-13) ISBN: 0152023720 List Price: $7.00 Amazon Price: $3.17 Used Price: $0.01 Zinnia's Flower Garden  Springtime is here, and Zinnia can?t wait to plant her seeds and watch them grow. She carefully takes care of her garden, watering her plants, weeding, and waiting patiently for something to sprout. And soon enough, the first seedlings appear! With art just as colorful as a garden in bloom, young readers will enjoy watching Zinnia?s beautiful garden grow, and may even be inspired to start one of their own.Paperback: 32 pages Company: Puffin (2007-01-11) ISBN: 0142407879 List Price: $5.99 Amazon Price: $2.58 Used Price: $1.85 Edible Flower Garden (Edible Garden Series)  A comprehensive guide to selecting and growing flowers that can be used for cookery, both as garnishes and as ingredients. Over 90 color illustrations.Author: Rosalind Creasy Paperback: 112 pages Company: Periplus Editions (1999-03-15) ISBN: 9625932933 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 Used Price: $7.25 Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers  As an accomplished gardener and professional florist, Linda Beutler offers unique insights into creating inspired floral arrangements and growing the plants that go into them. Among the topics that Beutler discusses are the philosophy of floral design; making creative use of plants you're already growing; techniques of harvesting and preparing cut flowers; "bouquet basics"; and creating arrangements for special occasions. The book culminates in "Plants for the Cutting Garden: Flowers, Foliage, and Fruit," which contains detailed descriptions of more than 200 outstanding plants. Adding greatly to the book's appeal and usefulness are Allan Mandell's breathtaking photographs of flowers in every stage from the garden to finished arrangement.Author: Linda Beutler, Allan Mandell Hardcover: 272 pages Illustrated Company: Timber Press, Incorporated (2007-05-01) ISBN: 0881928259 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $18.68 Used Price: $15.94 Flowers for Northern Gardens  Author: Leon C. Snyder Paperback: 385 pages Company: University of Minnesota Press (1991-03) ISBN: 0816619689 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $9.99 Used Price: $6.18 The Complete Encyclopedia of Garden Flowers: Choosing Plants, Handy Hints, Descriptions, Cultivation Requirements  The Complete Encyclopedia of Garden Flowers offers a host of ideas and advice about a vast range of flowering plants. This handy, all-encompassing reference with over 1400 photographs covers every flowering plant imaginable and provides a guide to growing both traditional plants as well as more unusual varieties. Useful tips show how to get the most from any plant in the garden and detailed descriptions and cultivation requirements make even a beginning gardener shine. Hardcover: 704 pages Company: Thunder Bay Press (CA) (2003-03) ISBN: 1592230563 List Price: $24.98 Amazon Price: $15.75 Used Price: $6.23 Flower Gardens  In Flower Gardens, one of England's foremost garden writers provides a beautiful and informative guide to choosing the best flowering plants for any garden and arranging them harmoniously in a given setting.Author: Penelope Hobhouse Paperback: 216 pages Company: Frances Lincoln (2006-08-07) ISBN: 0711218021 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $3.33 Used Price: $2.84 A Garden of Flowers: All 104 Engravings from the Hortus Floridus of 1614 (Dover Pictorial Archives)  Excellent reproduction in one volume of 2-volume facsimile edition teems with accurate, full-page images of garden flowers from all four seasons. Information on each plant describes leaves, flowers, seed pods, roots, and size and color of each blossom. A delightful reference for botanists, gardeners, and lovers of fine art. 104 black-and-white illustrations. Author: Crispin van de Pass Paperback: 256 pages Company: Dover Publications (2002-12-20) ISBN: 0486423050 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $11.66 Used Price: $11.55 |