Eyewitness Garden Handbooks: Annuals and Biennials - Softcover

Alan Toogood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789419831 ISBN 13: 9780789419835

Publisher: DK ADULT, 1997

Synopsis

Packed with more than 600 photographs of over 500 plants, Annuals and Biennials is an inspiring handbook to help you identify, choose, and grow your favorite varieties.

Packed with more than 600 photographs of over 500 plants, Annuals & Biennials is an inspiring handbook to help you identify, choose and grow your favorite varieties. Discover at a glance the full range of annuals and biennials available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description, plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and cold hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower color, the Plant Catalog will offer you the perfect specimen. All the essential considerations, such as selecting plants, preparing the ground, watering, mulching, feeding, weeding, and pest control, are clearly explained. Propagation methods, from sowing seeds to planting out, are also given. Whether you are planting a new garden or seeking new features of interest for an established one, Annuals & Biennials is your indispensable, portable gardening companion.

A lavishly illustrated flexibound, Eyewitness Garden Handbooks are the user-friendly guides that identify every type of garden plant with up to ten salient features, at-a-glance information on height, spread, and color, and useful cultivation symbols. There are also separate sections on gardening skills and a complete index of common names.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Toogood trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and at Brighton Parks and Gardens Department before going on to a two-year internship at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley. He worked as a horticultural journalist, editor, and lecturer, and is now a freelance horticultural journalist and consultant. He has written many books, contributes to horticultural journals, and is horticulture correspondent for The Times of London.

Linden Hawthorne is a professional horticulturist, writer, and editor of a number of horticultural reference works, including The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening.

From Library Journal:

This guide compiled with the help of internationally known horticulturists Alan Toogood and Linden Hawthorne is the latest addition to DK's fine "Eyewitness Garden Handbook" series. The plants are arranged by size and then color, beginning with white and proceeding around the color wheel. Each entry includes the family name, botanical name, and common name of each plant, followed by a description of growth habit, possible locations/uses for the plant, and propagation tips. Symbols for growing conditions provide cultivation advice. The hardiness zones of North America, a guide to planting and care, and a glossary contribute to the wealth of detail. Though not all common names are cross-referenced, this is a minor drawback. The quality of the 600-plus color photographs alone would recommend this book for all gardening collections.?Nancy Lee Myers, Univ. of South Dakota Lib., Vermillion
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About this edition

• Publisher: DK ADULT
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0789419831
• ISBN 13: 9780789419835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192