Burpee -- the Complete Flower Gardener: The Comprehensive Guide to Growing Flowers Organically

Karan Davis Cutler; Barbara W. Ellis

ISBN 10: 0764543245 / ISBN 13: 9780764543241

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Burpee -- the Complete Flower Gardener: The Comprehensive Guide to Growing Flowers Organically
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764543245
• ISBN 13: 9780764543241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 4.08 pounds

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Synopsis

This full-color guide from the experts at Burpee shows you how to plan, plant, and maintain a beautiful flower garden using an environmentally responsible, organic approach. It offers authoritative guidance on creating borders and beds, combining flower colors and shapes, selecting gardening tools, and much more, and features encyclopedic Plant Portraits section with profiles of more than 175 flowers—annuals, perennials, and bulbs.

About the Author

KARAN DAVIS CUTLER has received eight Quill and Trowel awards from the Garden Writers of America. Her articles have appeared in Horticulture, The American Gardener, Organic Gardening, Harrowsmith Country Life, and other publications. A former magazine editor, she is the author of many books, including Burpee—The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener (1997, 2006), Flowering Vines: Beautiful Climbers (1999), The New England Gardener's Book of Lists (2000), and Pruning Trees, Shrubs & Vines (2003). She grows flowers and vegetables on thirteen acres in northern Vermont.

BARBARA ELLIS, a freelance writer and editor, is the author of many gardening books, including Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants (1998), Deckscaping (2002), and Shady Retreats (2003). She was publications director for the American Horticultural Society and editor of The American Gardener, and for more than a decade was managing editor of garden books for Rodale Press. She tends an organic, wildlife-friendly garden filled with flowers in Maryland on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay.