Seeds: the Definitive Guide to Growing, History, A Nd Lore: A Definitive Guide to Growing, History and Lore - Hardcover

Loewer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025740423 ISBN 13: 9780025740426

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1996

Synopsis

Provides a wide scope of hands-on gardening techniques with scientific information and folklore, along with interviews, anecdotes, and listings of seed nurseries, seed exchanges, and poetry related to seeds

About this title

Review

This is a resource book that is also fun to read. -- Marianne Binetti Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20050120 Peter Loewer has proven himself one of the most interesting writers to address the topic. -- Jean Starr Munster (IN) Times 20050227 I haven't tried Loewer's techniques, but they look well thought out and his directions are comprehensive. -- Caroline McCullagh Let's Talk Plants 20050522 Gardeners with any interest at all in botanical matters will be fascinated by Loewer's tales and pictures detailing the how and why of the workings of seeds. HortIdeas 20050329 It is science made simple but not simplistic--detailed, delightful and never dull. -- Lili Singer Los Angeles Times 20050324 We're very pleased to see this classic back in print -- and the thoroughly updated chapter listing seed sources and reference works is a great bonus! HortIdeas 20050312 Will interest anyone interested in the life of plants and the planet... Eminently readable... provides refreshing reading to a devoted gardener during the quiet winter months when there is little work to be done outdoors. -- Dorothea Bedigian Plant Science Bulletin 20050527 Reader-friendly methods for germination, stratification, collection and storage are just the tip of the iceberg... This is a how-to interspersed with lots of interesting trivia that gives seeds the drama of a romantic spy thriller. -- Jean Starr Munster (IN) Times 20050224 An informative, easy to read, and entertaining book covering many topics relating to plant seeds. -- Lee Luckeydoo Sida, Contributions to Botany 20050923 This great work takes you through the history, anatomy, growing methods, and just about everything else you need to know on seeds. -- Dale Langford Rocky Mountain News 20061216

About the Author

Peter Loewer is a longstanding writer of (and botanical artist for) many gardening and natural history books, including The Evening Garden and Jefferson's Garden. His book The Wild Gardener was chosen as one of the 75 best gardening books of the 20th century by the American Horticultural Society. He is the contributing editor to Carolina Gardener magazine and a popular speaker.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025740423
• ISBN 13: 9780025740426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256