Roses: A Growing Guide for Easy, Colorful Gardens (Burpee Basics) - Softcover

Weaver, Mary C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028626362 ISBN 13: 9780028626369

Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 1998

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Guides readers to the seventy-five most rugged, disease-resistant varieties of roses available for different conditions, and assists beginning gardeners in buying, feeding, and caring for them, with the help of color photographs and line drawings. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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MARY C. WEAVER is a widely publicized writer, editor, and teacher. She is the freelance print editor for Home & Garden TV and the gardening columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. A certified Master Gardener, and a member of the American Rose Society, the American Horticultural Society, and the Garden Writer's Association of America, she lives and gardens in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Burpee Basics: Growing Guides for Easy, Colorful Gardens Down–to–earth handbooks 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 Roses The one book devoted entirely to the most easy–care, disease–resistant, low–maintenance roses for every climate and garden. By choosing rugged, disease–resistant varieties, anyone can grow beautiful roses. The core of the book is 100 plant portraits descriptions of the most carefree roses commercially available.

• Jam–packed with accessible, quick–reference information on everything from buying roses and preparing your soil to rose care and feeding, and pest and disease control.
• Informative sidebars contain time–saving tips on pruning techniques, lists of roses for special garden conditions, and solutions to common mistakes.
• Illustrated with over 90 color photographs of rose portraits and gardens, along with instructional line drawings.
• Handy appendix lists mail–order and garden–supply rose sources and organizations.
• Includes U.S. and Canadian zone map.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0028626362
• ISBN 13: 9780028626369
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173
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