Burpee Complete Gardener: A Comprehensive, up-to-Date, Fully Illustrated Reference for Gardeners at All Levels (Burpee American Gardening Series)

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Burpee® Complete Gardener "As with art, making a beautiful garden can be a transcendent experience—one that restores and renews your heart, mind, and soul." —From the introduction by Maureen Heffernan Burpee Complete Gardener features:

  • Detailed descriptions that cover more than 420 annuals, perennials, bulbs, roses, vegetables, herbs, ground covers, and vines
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Overview

Burpee® Complete Gardener "As with art, making a beautiful garden can be a transcendent experience—one that restores and renews your heart, mind, and soul." —From the introduction by Maureen Heffernan Burpee Complete Gardener features:

  • Detailed descriptions that cover more than 420 annuals, perennials, bulbs, roses, vegetables, herbs, ground covers, and vines
  • A guide to planning a garden that will thrive with a minimum of care
  • Complete information on preparing great garden soil; starting plants from seeds; planting nursery stock, including potted perennials and bare-root plants; fertilizing; watering; staking; controlling pests and diseases
  • An in-depth guide to the best garden tools
  • A guide to the best disease-resistant, easy-care roses you can buy
  • Answers to the questions Burpee gardeners ask most—covering everything from garden design to soil preparation and pest control
  • A wealth of full-color photography, vintage Burpee illustrations, and black-and-white line drawings
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
A much-respected name in gardening, Burpee offers this phone book-sized tome for the one-stop reference shelf. Competitively priced (at half the cost of most other encyclopedic overviews), the book is especially appropriate for beginners. Readers are guided with 450 photos and illustrations (not seen by PW) and a user-friendly format that forges confidently through the ins and outs of such basics as plant hardiness zones and soil preparation to garden design and pest control. Nearly two-thirds of the book is devoted to "plant portraits," brief but thorough profiles of hundreds of plants, in such groupings as ``Perennials,'' ``Bulbs'' and ``Herbs,'' that include information on characteristics and culture as well as such often overlooked finer points as staking and the best time to divide. Although experienced gardeners won't find new ground turned here, the lively presentation and accessible, authoritative air (including a section, ``Gardener's Most-Asked Questions'') should endear this reference to those newly acquainted with trowel and hoe. Literary Guild, Doubleday and Rodale book club selections. (Nov.)
George Cohen
Comprehensive--that's certainly true! Here you will find information on 420 annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, roses, vegetables, herbs, ground covers, and vines. There's a description of each plant, along with growing instructions and its uses. Other chapters cover designing, starting, planting, and caring for a garden; tools and equipment; and pests and diseases. And particularly handy is the chapter on gardeners' most-asked questions. This lavish guide includes 380 full-color photographs, vintage color illustrations from Burpee catalogues and seed packets, and black-and-white how-to line drawings.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780028603780
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/28/1995
  • Series: Burpee Series , #1
  • Edition description: Gift
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 422
  • Product dimensions: 8.56 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Meet the Author

Maureen Heffernan is the Director of Public Programs at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. Formerly, she was the Education Director at the American Horticultural Society. Holly H. Shimizu is the Supervisory Horticulturist and Assistant Executive Director of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. She has a range of experience working for arboretums throughout Europe and was formerly Curator of the Herb Garden for the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. Chela R. Kleiber is the Acting Director of the Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Formerly, she was a Horticulturist for W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Dr. Allan Armitage has written hundreds of articles for magazines including Horticulture and Fine Gardening. He is the author of six books, most recently Ornamental Bedding Plant Production and Allan Armitage on Perennials, part of the Burpee Expert Gardener Series. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

PART I: GARDENING FROM THE GROUND UP.

Chapter One. Getting Started (Maureen Heffernan).

Chapter Two. Designing Your Garden (Maureen Heffernan).

PART II: PLANT PORTRAITS.

Chapter Three. Annuals and Biennials (Chela Kleiber).

Chapter Four. Perennials (Chela Kleiber).

Chapter Five. Bulbs (Allan Armitage).

Chapter Six. Roses (Holly H. Shimizu).

Chapter Seven. Vegetables (Chela Kleiber).

Chapter Eight. Herbs (Holly H. Shimizu).

Chapter Nine. Groundcovers (Holly H. Shimizu).

Chapter Ten. Vines (Holly H. Shimizu).

PART III: THE PRACTICAL GARDENER.

Chapter Eleven. Planting and Caring for Your Garden (Maureen Heffernan).

Chapter Twelve. Tools and Equipment (Maureen Heffernan).

Chapter Thirteen. Pests and Diseases (Chela Kleiber).

Chapter Fourteen. Gardeners' Most-Asked Questions (Maureen Heffernan).

Appendix.

Index.

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