The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom: 576 annuals, perennials, and bulbs in full color

by Eileen Powell

Overview

Plan a flower garden for season-long beauty and color with this comprehensive guide to growing 542 annuals, perennials, and bulbs. Plant-by-plant descriptions include specific growing instructions and precise information on regional suitability, sowing, transplanting, bloom time, propagation, and care, so you can choose and cultivate the species that will bloom brightest under your garden’s unique conditions. With at-a-glance design planner lists and full-color photographs of more than 500 flowers, this essential reference source is sure to find a prized place on your potting bench.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580175173
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	02/01/2004
Series:	Potting-Bench Reference Books
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.45(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Eileen Powell is the proprietor of Secret Gardens Landscaping, a small business that specializes in the design, implementation and maintenance of small gardens. She is involved in all areas of the business, including landscape design, manual labor and customer relations. Her goal involves helping the client develop his or her own garden—keeping personal style in mind—and then working to make that dream garden blossom. Her knowledge and experience adds a great deal of insight to her book, From Seed to Bloom, a one-step guide to growing over 500 annuals, perennials, and herbs. Eileen has a certificate in landscape design from George Washington University. She resides in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Creating Successful Gardens	4
Part 1	Starting from Seed	7
Part 2	An A-Z of Garden Plants	38
Part 3	A Photo Gallery of Garden Plants	368
Part 4	Garden Planning Charts by Species	433
	Appendixes
	Bulb, Plant, and Seed Mail-Order Suppliers	485
	Native Plant Societies	494
	USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map	499
	AHS Plant Heat Zones	500
	Average Last Frost Dates	501
	Glossary	502
	Metric Conversion Chart	503
	Common to Botanic Names	504
	Botanic Synonyms	523
	Index to Part One	527
	Acknowledgements	528

Editorial Reviews

This book is a flower lover’s guide to growing 542 of the most popular annuals, perennials and bulbs.” – Flowers Herbs

“Powell's book is a guide to growing 542 annuals, perennials, and bulbs. Each entry has information on the plant's botanic name, common name, description (appearance, size, color, and best use in the garden), zones in which the genus can be grown, flowering season, sowing, germination, transplanting, care, propagation, and the best combination of flowers. The guide also contains a photo gallery of all the plants and a planning chart for selecting 1,487 species by height, color, and bloom time.”

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