An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold - Hardcover

McIntire, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813920620 ISBN 13: 9780813920627

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2002

Synopsis

In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop―all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs. McIntire includes information on topics such as the length of stems one might expect from the cutting garden, how many plants are needed of any one kind, when and how to sow seed outdoors, the heat-hardiness of plants, and strategies for coping with the effects of hot summers and cold winters.

Suzanne McIntire is a freelance writer and seasoned veteran of gardening in northern Virginia. She is the editor of The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People.

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About the Author

Suzanne McIntire was a freelance writer and seasoned veteran of gardening in northern Virginia, and the editor of The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813920620
• ISBN 13: 9780813920627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312