Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants Books
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Happy Plants Happy You
Book SynopsisFilled with witty advice and helpful plant-care routines, Happy Plants, Happy You reveals the surprising connections between tending houseplants and nurturing a more content, balanced, and healthier you. Trade Review“Prepare to feel inspired after reading Kamili's all-too-relatable book illustrating how the plant hobby offers a respite from the burnout of hustle culture. This book is perfect for those looking to take their plant care more seriously and take their lives more lightheartedly." * Lindsay of alltheplantbabies.com *“Happy Plants, Happy You does a great job illustrating the life of a plant parent. Kamili really brings readers in by sharing personal accounts around her successes and failures with plants. A nice bonus was how the book brilliantly demonstrates leading a life of intentionality and pursuing things that make you passionate with statements like "why do we stop daydreaming at a certain age." There are also a wealth of accessible plant care tips and tricks featured so that plant people of all experience levels have practical knowledge to take with them as they continue their plant parenthood journey.” * Tyler from @thatplantguy_ty *"A fun, inventive, and worthwhile addition to any library and for all sorts of plant parents. This is much more than a book about caring for houseplants." -- Sarah Filiberto * Library Journal *"This book takes plant life to the next level. The relationship Kamili Hill has with plants is equal to what goes into her personal life." * Washington Gardener *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION How Plants Can Bring You Peace My Journey to Plant Mamahood— The Path to Peace CHAPTER 1 The To-Do List How Adding Houseplants to Your To-Do List Translates to Self-Care, Not to More Work CHAPTER 2 Save a Little Something for Yourself Use Houseplants to Turn Borderline Burn-Out into Personal Growth. Plus, the Best Plants to Get You Started CHAPTER 3 Water Yourself Houseplant Cultivation Tips That Also Cultivate YOU CHAPTER 4 Would You Date That Plant? The Power of Reciprocity in Human and Plant Relationships—and the Art of Letting Go CHAPTER 5 A Date with Yourself Learn How to Pause with Plants. Time Spent with Your Plants is Time Spent with Yourself CHAPTER 6 Gratuitous Beauty Finding the Best Houseplants for Your Space and Appreciating the Beauty They Bring to Your Daily Life CHAPTER 7 There Is No One-Size-Fits-All A Twisty Journey to a Green Thumb—Sometimes Plants Die. Try Again. CHAPTER 8 Plant Care Is Self-Care (And It’s Badass!) Check In on Yourself by Checking In on Your Plants RESOURCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
£17.09
Cool Springs Press The Vintage Farmhouse Garden
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£17.60
Running Press,U.S. Killer Plants
Book SynopsisExplore the darker side of house plants with this accessible guide to choosing, growing, and caring for carnivorous and predatory plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants (in all of their wild and wacky varieties), sundews, and other spooky guys.Carnivorous plants are among the most fascinating botanical specimens in this world. They''re weird, they''re gorgeous, and they''re the perfect addition to your urban jungle of pothos, snake plants, and succulents. However, they can also be intimidating to grow and care for. Let Killer Plants -- with its light approach and adorable two-color illustrations -- be your guide as it walks you through the different types of carnivorous plants and how to keep each variety alive and well.The book answers the many questions you may have surrounding these freaks of nature, such as:* Where the heck do I buy a pitcher plant? Can I grow it from a seed?* Do I need to feed my carnivorous plant flie
£15.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sky Gardens
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Beardless Irises
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Dwarf and Median Bearded Irises
Book SynopsisThe only book devoted to the five amazing classes of shorter bearded irises!
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Marvelous Mopheads
Book SynopsisA comprehensive growing guide to mophead hydrangea varieties available today and best practices for cultivating each. Finally, a book just about mopheads, the most-popular hydrangeas for home gardeners. A 2021 study by the University of Tennessee Extension Service estimates more than 10 million hydrangeas are sold in the US each year. Mopheads are far and away the hydrangeas in greatest demand, accounting for 90% of sales. New mophead varieties flood the market every year. It's hard to keep track of them all, let alone choose the perfect one(s) for the home garden. Marvelous Mopheads provides a comprehensive list of mophead varieties and invaluable advice about the best mopheads, including the older tried-and-true mopheads and more-recent introductions. The book is organized to present clear answers to frequently asked questions about plant selection color pruning indoor and
£19.54
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Lovely Lacecap Hydrangeas
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£19.54
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Sow Grow and Harvest
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£25.59
Johns Hopkins University Press Finding Wildflowers in the WashingtonBaltimore
Book SynopsisA guide to the locations, habitats and blooming periods of the many species of wildflower that grow in and around the Washington and Baltimore area. The book focuses on the more showy native and naturalized herbaceous plants of woods, fields, wetlands and parks.Trade ReviewA rich and welcome resource for everyone who enjoys wildflowers-casual walker and dedicated student alike... Finding Wildflowers describes dozens of parks, preserves, and other sites within about a hundred miles of the Baltimore-Washington corridor. And it goes well beyond simple description, placing these sites in the context of the region's natural environment, and providing a detailed checklist of species the visitor may see. -- Mary Pockman Audubon Naturalist News A trio of authors (two from the Audubon Society) deliver loads of information about plant life and geology, as well as outlining scores of trails and sites to visit in natural areas... Includes a month-by-month guide to blooming seasons for a variety of plants. Baltimore Magazine
£26.10
Tuttle Publishing Totally Bonsai
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£15.26
Great Outdoors Publishing Company For the Love of Roses in Florida Elsewhere
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£12.34
Vanderbilt University Press Nashville Native Orchids
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£16.10
Rizzoli International Publications French Blooms
Book SynopsisThis first book by Sandra Sigman, award-winning floral designer and owner of Les Fleurs, presents arranging flowers in the French style—bouquets that are chic and romantic.As Sandra Sigman learned while living in Paris in her twenties, the French consider each floral arrangement a unique work of art filled with passion, movement, texture, and surprise. In French Blooms, Sigman shares the distinct design principles she learned from her favorite Parisian florist, and offers tutorials, with images and instructions for creating French-inspired arrangements for different areas of the home. Projects include a mantle display in Ironstone gravy boats, compote-style dining room arrangements, powder room posies, and beribboned hand-tied bouquets. With chapters on choosing the right containers—from vintage stoneware crocks to baskets and white ceramic footed vases—and flower care and tools, along with lush photographs, many taken in Paris, Normandy, and ProTrade Review"Floral designer and owner of Les Fleurs Sandra Sigman shares her love affair with flowers in her first book titled French Blooms (Rizzoli, $40). Within the pages, Sigman showcases artistic arrangements in the French style and guides readers on container choices, flower care and utilizing the correct tools." —ATLANTA HOMES AND LIFESTYLES
£23.96
Orion Publishing Co The Edible Flower
Book SynopsisOn a seven-acre small holding in rural Northern Ireland, organic gardener Jo Facer and head chef Erin Bunting run fork-to-fork supper club, organic small-holding and fledgling cooking and growing school, The Edible Flower. In their first cookbook, learn to grow and cook edible flowers with Jo and Erin's delicious recipes inspired by the seasonal produce they grow in their kitchen garden and the wild food they forage from their local shores and hedgerows. Feast, celebrate and bring people together with over 50 recipes for small plates, mains, desserts, baking, snacks and drinks, at once fresh and flavourful and absolutely stunning to serve. Recipes include: Ribboned Courgette & Avocado Salad with Poppy Seeds & Calendula, Pot Marigold Soda Bread, Lilac Panna Cotta with Strawberries, Rice with Lemon Verbena, Cardamom & Edible Flower Petals, Marigold Petal Pasta, Courgette Flower Tacos, Carnation and Blackberry Cooler, Slow Roast Lamb with Lavender, Lemon & Apricots, Blackberry & Sweet Geranium Tart, Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Violas, Aubergine Katsu Curry with Pickled Magnolia and many more ...
£25.50
Octopus Publishing Group The Flower Yard
Book SynopsisArthur Parkinson''s town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks. Despite its small size, a flower-filled jungle in Venetian tones is grown here each year, in defiance of urbanisation. The plants act like drapes, closing gently as their growth engulfs the front door, from either side of the path, to the buzz of precious bees. This is gardening done entirely in pots, yet on a grand scale that will inspire anyone who wants their doorstep or patio to be a glamorous and lively canvas that nurtures them visually and mentally. From jewel scatterings of crocus, flocks of parrot tulips and scented sweet peas to galaxies of single dahlias, towering giraffes of amaryllises grown inside for winter and endless vases of cut blooms through the seasons. With his bantam hens at his feet, Arthur shares his life, knowledge, flair and influences for planting creatively, all of which combine to create a space that''s rich in ever-changing colour and life.
£20.90
Oneworld Publications By Any Other Name
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. ‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of specTrade Review‘Fascinating material, surveyed with relish and acumen.’ -- Times Literary Supplement‘Fascinating. Morley moves effortlessly from ancient Greece and Rome to the latest research in neurobiology, taking in alchemy and Pre-Raphaelite art, Modernist poetry and the Grateful Dead along the way. I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ -- Adrian Tinniswood, author of Behind the Throne‘Morley’s book is, in part, the story of how humans came to raise roses so consistently and abundantly that we demand them even in freezing February. First, though, By Any Other Name recounts the love affair with a flower that drove us to want to do that in the first place.’ -- Wall Street Journal‘An intellectual and artistic journey… digging around the history of how roses have become entangled with human life. By Any Other Name will be a source of inspiration for us.’ -- Kim Wook-Kyun, President of the South Korea Rose Society‘Quite brilliant… A powerful reminder of how humanity simply cannot exist without the support of nature’s beauty represented by this simple shrub.’ -- Jonny Norton, Head Gardener at Mottisfont Abbey‘By Any Other Name…explores the many facets that make the rose stand out from the rest. Morley expertly crafts the story of the rose from its humble beginnings to its present reality.’ * Washington Gardener *‘From the etymology of its name to the breeders’ search for perfection, via its role in poetry, prose and art, rose growers with a penchant for learning will find this a satisfying read.’ -- Choice
£21.25
WW Norton & Co Perennials for the Backyard Gardener
Book SynopsisThis eminently practical instructional book demystifies perennial gardening for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. Not a glossy coffee-table tome featuring impossibly perfect gardens, Perennials for the Backyard Gardener is packed with old-fashioned advice culled from a lifetime of study and plain old backyard "dirt" gardening.
£16.74
Workman Publishing Container Gardening Storey Publishing bulletin
Book SynopsisSince 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
£5.30
Workman Publishing Saving Seeds Gardeners Guide to Growing and
Book SynopsisEnjoy a delicious bounty of heirloom vegetables every year. Marc Rogers guides you through the time-honored and cost-effective tradition of collecting seeds from this year's harvest to grow next year's crop. Learn how to select and store seeds from proven varieties of more than 100 common vegetables and flowers. Through saving seeds and growing heirloom plants you'll not only have a thriving garden every summer, you'll be saving money and preserving local flavors at the same time.
£11.69
Workman Publishing Grow a Hummingbird Garden Storeys Country Wisdom
Book SynopsisSince 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
£5.31
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Orchids of North America
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£10.44
Norton Creek Press Gardening Without Work For the Aging the Busy the Indolent Volume 1 Ruth Stout Classics
£20.54
White Hopton Publications Claire Austins Book Of Perennials New Edition
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£17.10
White Hopton Publications Peonies
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£21.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Best Roses Herbs And Edible Flowers
Book SynopsisA quick-reference guide to roses, herbs, and edible flowers for gardeners with little experience and time.
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Best Perennials for Sun and Shade
Book SynopsisEasy plants for more beautiful gardens.
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Dahlias
Book SynopsisFirst published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Pavilion.
£23.75
Applewood Books Book of Roses Trade
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£14.20
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Cool Orchids
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£10.62
Chronicle Books Floret Farms Cut Flower Garden List Ledger
Book SynopsisBrimming with magnificent blooms and the natural beauty of Floret Farm, these floral notes will brighten every list, plan, and idea.• Features 4 notepads with 30 pages each• Farm-to- centerpiece images from Instagram sensation @floretflower• A fresh way to brighten up desktopsFans of Floret Farm''s Cut Flower Garden and Floret Farm''s Cut Flower Garden 100 Postcards will love this floral ledger set. This set of list ledgers is perfect for• Flower lovers• Floral designers• Home gardeners
£12.35
Headline Publishing Group Lease on Love
Book Synopsis''This was a BEAUTIFUL love story. If you enjoyed The Flatshare, you will love Lease on Love!''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review''I don''t think I have ever been in love with a book more than I am in love with Lease on Love'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader reviewA fun, heart-warming light heated read. Highly enjoyable, and I can''t wait to see what the talented Falon comes up with next'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader reviewBeach Read meets The Flatshare in this warmly funny and delightfully sharp rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love.................................................................................She wasn''t looking for love until it landed on her door
£10.44
Simon & Schuster Bloom Boom
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£16.99
IMM Lifestyle Books Organic Book of Compost, 2nd Revised Edition:
Book SynopsisGrow beautiful fruits, vegetables, and flowers with rich soil you produce yourself! Whether you have experience with compost or have always wanted to learn more and see how you can incorporate it into your lifestyle, this book provides everything you need to know. From understanding what compost is and how to make it to using and storing it, this guide carefully explains this sustainable, low-cost way to produce rich soil in your backyard. With detailed chapters on composting techniques, worm composting, and even a section on frequently asked questions, Organic Book of Compost is the only one you'll ever need!
£12.74
Adams Media Corporation Gardening Hacks: 300+ Time and Money Saving Hacks
Book SynopsisMake your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom—perfect for any green thumbs, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners!Think you don’t have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution. Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you’re starting your first garden, looking to expand your crop, or simply searching for ways to make it easier to care for your extensive plant collection, you’ll find everything you need to know to make your garden grow. Gardening Hacks includes helpful tips like: -Saving your eggshells, which can serve as everything from an organic seed starter to a natural snail and slug repellent. -Adding a pinch of cinnamon to help prevent fungal diseases that might prevent your plants from maturing. -Using the newspaper to help deter weeds from sprouting. -Creating your own DIY seed packet catalog to help keep your seeds organized as your garden grows. -And many more! No matter the size of your garden—from a small herb collection to an extensive variety of fruits and vegetables to any indoor plant that needs some perking up—Gardening Hacks will make your plants flourish!Trade Review“Creative, low-cost ideas … and advice … sparking enthusiasm and building confidence.” —Publishers Weekly“The kind of book that is a lot of fun, and makes your garden a better and richer place.” —Common Weeder“Everything you need to know.” —Gratitude Gourmet
£10.44
Adams Media Corporation How to Grow Flowers in Small Spaces
Book SynopsisTake your gardening to the next level…with flowers! After learning how to manage their houseplants and grow their own food, this highly stylized, fully illustrated, modern guidebook teaches reluctant green thumbs to brighten up their gardens with flowers. Did you know that begonias can be dug up in the fall, stored indoors in the winter, and be ready to be planted and bloom again in the spring? That daylilies need to be divided every three to four years to produce more blooms? Or that marigolds can be both a beautiful and helpful addition to a vegetable garden as a natural deterrent to common garden pests? Whether you’re a first-time gardener or an experienced green thumb looking to learn more about flowers, this book is your must-have guide! How to Grow Flowers in Small Spaces features 40 beautiful flowers (from smaller pincushion flowers to towering lilacs) that can all be grown in containers or small spaces. Along
£11.69
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Attracting Garden Pollinators
Book SynopsisAttracting Garden Pollinators is a friendly, accessible, information packed guide to gardening for and with pollinators. Pollinators are in trouble, but our gardens can help. Gardens represent a vast, varied nature reserve' packed with plants rich in nectar and pollen to sustain these delicate creatures. This book explores the role that pollinators play and how gardeners and people with gardens can do something to help attract and support them. From butterflies (and their caterpillars - with host plant information) to surprising pollinators (moths, wasps, beetles flies and hornets) and of course including honeybees, hoverflies and bumblebees, this book will offer an insight into their fragile existence, lifecycles and their vital role in the food chain and the natural cycle. Jean Vernon is the Best-Selling author of The Secret Lives of Garden Bees.
£21.25
Quercus Publishing How Plants Can Save Your Life: 50 Inspirational
Book SynopsisGrowing plants and (if we are lucky enough) creating gardens is deeply rewarding, but has also been proven to be vital for our health.Gardening helps improve our mood, relax us, take us away from our everyday problems, and promote positive emotions. It reduces anxiety and stress, delays in the onset of dementia, promotes joy, as well as improving physical health and even self-esteem.This new book explores the ways we can introduce plants into our lives and thus embrace some of the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, how this is good for your health and provides links to the underlying concept that supports health and well-being.Written by a leading scientific authority on environmental horticulture, this unique book will offer readers a wealth of ideas on planting and growing as well as explaining the latest science research behind those ideas.
£21.25
Quercus Publishing The Sexual Life of Flowers
Book Synopsis'A fascinating treasure trove for plant lovers and gardeners alike.' - Frances TophillOften beautiful and sometimes strange, flowering plants have evolved to become masters of seduction.We are surrounded by extraordinary partnerships between plants and the birds, bees and other insects that pollinate them. In The Sexual Life of Flowers, botanist Simon Klein leads a beguiling and fascinating tour of the courtship between fifty flowers and the pollinators vital to their survival.From the siren scent of honeysuckle to the radiating warmth of the sunflower or the ultraviolet signal of the red poppy; tales of botanical charm, deception and intrigue are played out amid an annual explosion of activity in gardens, meadows and woodlands. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this is a beautiful collection for gardeners and anyone with an interest in flowers.
£21.25
Ebury Publishing Start Growing
Book SynopsisEasy, budget-friendly, year-round gardening projects for complete beginners, from This Morning's gardening expert.If you love house plants and you''re ready to try something new . . . this is the book for you! Step away from your screen and discover the joys of growing and connecting with nature.Find simple step-by-step projects for every season accompanied by beautiful photography to guide you throughout. Whether you have a windowsill, patio, small patch of grass, allotment or more room to play with, you'll find projects to suit your space. From growing salad on your windowsill and creating a houseplant haven in your bathroom to growing outdoor fruit and veg or creating a beautiful garden boarder, this book covers all your practical gardening basics and the tools you'll need to start out with.
£13.49
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Roses for Northern Gardeners
Book SynopsisEasy-to-follow advice with tips on buying roses, planting in beds and containers, rose care, pruning and insect control. Also includes recipes for jam, rose brandy and potpourri, how to handle cut-flowers, overwintering and more.
£6.19
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Lois Hole's Rose Favorites: 148 Roses for Scent
Book SynopsisIn this book, Lois Hole describes her 148 favorite varieties and offers practical advice on what roses to grow for fragrance, color and splendor. She also includes information on the soil, light, climate and moisture conditions required for success.
£14.39
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Annuals for Northern California
Book SynopsisDiscover the best annuals for Northern California with this colorful guide. Plenty of photographs accompany clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice, including tips on when to plant, growing from seed versus nursery-grown bedding plants, optimal growth conditions, problems and pests. This handy reference features almost 450 annuals best suited to the region.
£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Perennials for Northern California
Book SynopsisPerennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 93 different perennials, along with information on 519 recommended varieties and cultivars perfect for Northern California gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors share their common sense and practical advice to help you transform any patch of ground--wet or dry, sunny or shady, coastal or hot interior valley--into a spectacular garden you can enjoy year after year: * Flower and foliage colors * Height and spread ranges * Blooming periods * How and when to start your plants * Planting strategies * Light, water and nutrient needs * Choosing the best perennials for different growing conditions * Over 500 color photographs.
£16.19
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Perennials for Ontario
Book SynopsisPerennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 86 different species, along with information on 520 recommended varieties, hybrids and cultivars perfect for Ontario gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors share their common sense and practical advice to help you transform any patch of ground into a spectacular garden you can enjoy year after year: * Flower and foliage colors * Height and spread ranges * Blooming periods * How and when to start your plants * Planting strategies * Light, water and nutrient needs * Choosing the best perennials for different growing conditions * Over 470 colour photographs.
£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Roses for Northern California
Book SynopsisA practical and beautifully photographed guide to over 100 recommended roses for Northern California. This common-sense resource covers the most important information for each of the recommended varieties. The book is divided into nine sections: species roses, hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, old garden, climbers and ramblers, miniatures, groundcover and pavement, and shrub and modern shrub.
£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Annuals for Michigan
Book SynopsisBrilliant photographs and down-to-earth advice are packed into this guide to over 443 annuals suited to the climate of this Great Lake state. Szerlag and Beck provide information on light, water and nutrient needs, as well as recommendations on how and when to start your plants. This book also includes tips on planting, growing, recommended varieties, and problems and pests.
£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Roses for Michigan
Book SynopsisA practical and beautifully photographed guide to over 100 recommended roses for Michigan. This commonsense resource covers the most important information concerning each of the recommended varieties. Enjoy the more than 300 full-color photographs as you read where to plant roses, which roses will do best in your garden, how to purchase, plant and care for different kinds of roses, protect the plants over the winter and identify and treat various pests and diseases that can attack rose plants. The book is divided into nine sections: species roses, hybrid teas, floribunda, grandiflora, old garden, climber and rambler, miniature, groundcover and modern shrub.
£15.29
