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 pla…
Create low-cost, low-maintenance flower-filled plots around the yard that provide habitat for pollinators, reduce mowing, and address problem areas with special plantings for shady, damp, erosion-prone, or deer-susceptible spots.
This book offers step-by-step instructions for preparing your flower garden plot and choosing flowers for shady and sunny locations and for maintaining your garden by weeding, watering, and deadheading.
An illustrated guide for kids that teaches them how to plan, create, and maintain their own gardens.
This book offers step-by-step instructions for preparing your flower garden plot and choosing flowers for shady and sunny locations and for maintaining your garden by weeding, watering, and deadheading.
The gardener's fantasy of colorful blooms that begin in early spring and continue through the last glow of fall is now an achievable reality. With a little careful planning and the fun-to-use formulas in The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden, season-spanning spectacular color is more …
The gardener's fantasy of colorful blooms that begin in early spring and continue through the last glow of fall is now an achievable reality. With a little careful planning and the fun-to-use formulas in The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden, season-spanning spectacular color is more …
Enter a world of tents, fruit cakes, carnations, and carrots, where competitive gardeners and home cooks offer up produce to be judged by eagle-eyed experts. Curious about the inner workings of exhibiting? [this book] reveals all with its official RHS guidelines for selecting an…
"Chapter 1 will focus on succession in the landscape, including lessons from prairies and woodlands. Chapter 2 moves on to how succession can work in the garden. Chapter 3 is about how to "layer" succession onto the home landscape, and the final chapter talks about the foundatio…
'The Flower Farmer's Year' is a look at how to plant, maintain and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut f…
In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Mendez shares her successful recipes for having a garden you can manage (and love) - for half the work. It's all about choosing high-value, low-maintenance plants and making simple design changes. Her practical tips, "plant this, not that" lists,…
"Do you love to grow flowers, but don't have the space... or time... or energy? Garden expert Kerry Ann Mendez knows how you feel. In 'The Right-Size Flower Garden', she shares her successful recipe for having a garden you can manage (and love) -- for half the work. It's all abo…
In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Mendez shares her successful recipes for having a garden you can manage (and love) - for half the work. It's all about choosing high-value, low-maintenance plants and making simple design changes. Her practical tips, "plant this, not that" lists,…
In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Mendez shares her successful recipes for having a garden you can manage (and love) - for half the work. It's all about choosing high-value, low-maintenance plants and making simple design changes. Her practical tips, "plant this, not that" lists,…