Backyard Bouquets: Growing Great Flowers for Simple Arrangements - Softcover

Brennan, Georgeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811814130 ISBN 13: 9780811814133

Verlag: Chronicle Books, 1998

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Book by Brennan Ethel Brennan Georgeanne

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Many people love a cheery floral arrangement but never have enough flowers on hand. Backyard Bouquets, by Georgeanne Brennan, suggests ways to have something lovely growing all year. The softcover volume from Chronicle Books explains how to start and maintain a cutting garden of fast-growing flowers. There are even suggestions for winter arrangements. [A] beautifully photographed book....The Gazette Reviews From: California Garden Canadian House & Home Cutting flowers from one's own garden is a major reward for gardeners and this book describes exactly which plants, usually annuals, suit this purpose. Beginning with general planting and gardening information, it proceeds to an organization of blossoms by shapes and sizes useful for effective flower designs. Thus the first section on Discs and Domes includes everything needed to be known about sunflowers, sinnias, cosmos, coreopsis, and scabiosas. Airy fillers include Queen Anne's lace, bachelor buttons, nigella, and Cleome. Handsome color photos of the flowers, on their own and in beautiful arrangements, could be enough to inspire anyone to dedicate all possible space in the garden to this purpose. Emphasizing that cutting flowers thrive easily in containers or window boxes, the author devotes much space to the value of interesting containers, both for growing and arranging flowers. Brennan, a food and garden writer, and former co-owner of a seed company, shares her knowledge in this ABC of gardening (plants range from Alba poppies to zinnias), giving advice on planting (seeds, seedlings or bulbs), growing, harvesting, and assembling flowers in artful arrangements. With lots of beautiful pictures for the non-gardener to enjoy, and facts enough to satisfy the greenest thumb, this book deserves a place indoors.

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This book features a variety of quick and ea sy-to-grow blooms for anyone who wants lovely flowers for in timate arrangements. It explains the role each type of flowe r plays in a bouquet, then gives step-by-step directions for growing each type. '

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• Verlag: Chronicle Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0811814130
• ISBN 13: 9780811814133
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192