Annuals: A Growing Guide for Easy, Colorful Gardens (Burpee) - Hardcover

Sweeney, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028622235 ISBN 13: 9780028622231

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

Annuals are wonderful plants for the beginner gardener. Burpee Basics: Annuals provides detailed plant portraits for 75 of the most popular annuals, rating each one on a trowel scale of 1 to 3 trowels for ease in growing and maintenance. The book is jam–packed with practical information and tips on everything from using color in the garden and assembling a tool kit, to organic gardening, solutions to common mistakes, and pest control. Readers can refer to 7 simple watercolor garden designs for guidance in creating beds and borders for shade, cut flowers, and more.

About this title

About the Author

EMMA SWEENEY is a garden designer and writer. She is also the author of Burpee Basics: Perennials and the co–author of The Complete Idiot′s Guide to Gardening. She currently lives and gardens on a 130–year–old farm in Clinton, New York, and has a certificate in horticulture from the New York Botanical Garden.

From the Back Cover

Burpee Basics: Growing Guides for Easy, Colorful Gardens
Down–to–earth handbook for beginning gardeners

"Our new series of concise gardening guidebooks continues Burpee′s proud tradition of giving gardeners the essentials they need. These handy little books have a great deal in common with seeds: each one contains all you need to start a wonderful gardening experience.... Even the most experienced gardeners attend to the basic practices that you′ll find so skillfully explained in these guides." —George Ball, Jr., President of W. Atlee Burpee, from the Foreword

Annuals
Get your first garden up and growing with annuals.

Annuals are wonderful plants for the beginner gardener. Burpee Basics: Annuals provides detailed plant portraits — accompanied by full–color photographs — for 75 of the most popular annuals, rating each one for ease in growing and maintenance.

• Jam–packed with accessible, quick–reference information on everything from using color in the garden and improving the soil to pest and disease control.
• Informative sidebars contain time–saving tips, suggested plant lists, practical garden advice, and solutions to common mistakes.
• Color photographs of planted beds and borders, along with instructional line drawings.
• Handy gardener′s calendar simplifies garden maintenance throughout the year.
• Includes U.S. and Canadian zone maps.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028622235
• ISBN 13: 9780028622231
• Binding: Turtleback
• Number of pages: 208