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Hostas (Gardener's Guide to Growing Series)

Bulbs in Containers (627 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:20:26 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Fantastic color photographs and excellent writing make this an inspirational and accessible guide for specialty plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners, and city gardeners, as well as anyone gardening in small spaces. Readers will learn about the ease and practicality of growing bulbs in containers — bringing year-round color and interest to ones home. Popular classic bulbs are included, as well as a range of more unusual varieties such as the delicate-looking but surprisingly unfussy coryda ...

Bulbs for Garden Habitats (638 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:26:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Where most bulbs books repeat the seasonal approach to bulb gardening by bloom time, assuming the usual fall ritual of mass planting bulbs by the bushel, this book advocates more careful study of natural habitats and cultural needs before planting. All gardeners have experienced the frustration of having a bulb flower in the first year after planting, but poorly or never again thereafter. ...

Garden Bulbs for the South (843 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:58:58 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

There are hundreds of choice bulbs that revel in southern warmth and humidity, and Scott Ogden profiles the best of them in this fascinating, comprehensive volume. In a series of chapters that takes us through the gardening year, Ogden introduces the plants that help to give southern gardens their distinct regional flavor, many with charmingly descriptive names: rain lilies, oxblood lilies, jonquils, crinums, and scores of others. ...

Annuals, Perennials, & Bulbs (598 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.06 2007 on 19:54:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Stunning flower gardens that bloom through the seasons depend on the artful combination of annuals, perennials, and bulbs. In this book, Anne Halpin shows you how to grow these plants and gives foolproof design techniques for any landscape. The extensive section on using color in the garden can guide you through the tricky process of plant placement and selection. Practical techniques are emphasized too. You will learn how to care for soil, start plants from seeds, grow and care for plants in co ...

Gloriosa superba 'Rothschildiana' - Gloriosa Lily, Glory Lily (880 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.06 2007 on 06:32:43 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Glowing crimson red with a yellow base and slight yellow edge. Heres a splendid low climber, easy to grow, does well in sun or partial shade. Grows 5-6ft high, producing 12 or more lily like flowers, blooming in June-July, of exceptional beauty. Also suitable for potting. Top size bulbs. Hardy in zones: 7-10. In colder areas bring the bulbs inside during the winter. ...

Hippeastrum 'Mambo' - Amaryllis (618 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.11 2007 on 11:35:26 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Giant Amaryllis are easy and thrilling to grow indoors, and a great gift for a child or the home bound person. Unlike many other amaryllis bulbs on the market, our large hybrid bulbs will produce two 18-24 stems, each bearing 4 or 5 huge, long lasting flowers that are over 8 inches in diameter. Start one or two bulbs into growth every 7-10 days to grace your home from holiday time until spring. ...

Buried Treasures (660 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:12:15 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Finding and Growing the Worlds Choicest Bulbs | Take a few chapters from a John le Carré spy thriller, add a hefty dose of exotic travelogue, blend with one of the best books on bulb growing ever written, and youve got Buried Treasures . Since launching his first international mail-order catalog in 1991, Latvian nurseryman Janis Ruksans has rapidly gained a reputation as one of the worlds foremost experts on rare and unusual bulbs: Juno irises striped like exotic birds; gem-like corydalis; dusky ...

The Color Encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs (618 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 10:14:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

This first complete account of all the bulbous plants of the Cape Floral Region is an essential aid to the identification of all species presently in cultivation. ...

400 Best Garden Plants (665 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.05 2007 on 08:07:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Practical Encyclopedia of Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Trees and Shrubs | This fully comprehensive guide to the outstanding garden plants of every season should be on the book shelves of both novice gardeners and green-fingered experts. More than 425 full-color photographs illustrate detailed listings for specific varieties of annuals, perennials, bulbs, and trees. ...

Tulipa 'Blushing Apeldoorn' - tulip (1204 readers)

Contributed by havlis 02.04 2008 on 14:40:39 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Darwin hybrids were created by crossing formerly wild species of tulip from Central Asia (t.fosteriana). The result being huge flowers with almost regular pyramid shape before they open, brilliant colours, and tall, sturdy stems – excellent for cutting. Moreover, they can stand a little neglect if you leave them in the ground for a few years. That on the proviso you do not cut off the leaves before they wither. ...

ABCs Of Bulb Gardening (403 readers)

Contributed by bloomingbulb 13.05 2007 on 12:14:19 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Flowering plants that overwinter and multiply by means on fleshy stems of leaves are called bulbs. The bulbs we grow in our gardens today are native to temperate zones all over the world, the woodlands, meadows and mountains of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North America. The Dutch have been extremely successful over the centuries in collection and hybridizing new species of bulbs and improving them for reliable garden performance. Tulips in particular, once played an important role in the ...

Crinum amoenum - Crinum Lily (702 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.08 2007 on 09:49:02 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

This crinum lily makes an imposing presence in the garden. Dark green strap-like leaves may be more than 3 feet long by 4 inches wide. These are held erect and arranged in a spiral rosette to form impressive clumps up to 5 feet in height by 7 feet in width. The leaves emerge from huge bulbs that may weigh ten to twenty pounds! Flowers are shaped like tubes that flair open into a crown of narrow petals. The flowers are white and are arranged in clusters atop thick, succulent stems. ...

Colchicum 'The Giant' - False Autumn Crocus (569 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.08 2007 on 10:14:31 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Very large pinkish lavender flowers, which are white at the x! . Like all Colchicums, The Giant is deer proof! Fall blooming colchicum are wonderful additions to autumn gardens. Blooms form chalice-shaped cups. Leaves turn golden yellow as they mature, blending with foliage. Bulbs will flower on you window sill even if not planted. Squirrel resistant ...

Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants (890 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:37:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts | Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants provides a combination of observations, expertise and master photographs. This new book is a resource that gardeners will use again and again for its thoroughness, accessibility and reliability. ...

Narcissus bulbocodium var. conspicuus 'Golden Bells' - Miniature Daffodil (860 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.08 2007 on 08:05:37 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Commonly known as the Yellow Hoop Petticoat. Up to 15 stems per bulb! Groups of 5 or 10 bulbs form a carpet of dainty, upward facing, bright golden bells. Grass like, dark green foliage. Tolerates warm spring climates and is very hardy. Excellent for rock gardens. ...

Alpine Plants (985 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:34:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Ecology for Gardeners. Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners explores ecosystems above the treeline on mountains and beyond the treeline in sub-polar regions from a gardeners perspective. It looks at the effects of geology and soils, low temperatures, precipitation, drought, and snow on the morphology and life cycles of alpine plants - including perennial herbs and grasses, annuals and biennials, prostrate and dwarf shrubs, bulbs, and cushion plants. ...

Fritillaria meleagris - Guinea-Hen Flower (700 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.09 2007 on 09:02:34 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Very easy to grow and very easy to get to bloom. Fantastic markings on each petal gives the plant its common name, Guinea Hen Flower. It is also known as the Checkered Lily, Rattlesnake Lily, and Snakes Head Lily. The proper name for this plant of many names is Fritillaria meleagris. ...

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden (875 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.04 2007 on 10:35:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs | The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the mixed garden of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation. As with her bestselling book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden , master designer and plantswoman Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organiz ...

The Plant Doctor (534 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.08 2007 on 10:50:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Practical Guide to Having a Healthy Garden | Every spring, plant lovers around the world are faced with life-or-death questions such as: Will it be petunias or pansies? Marigolds or morning glories? Do I dare plant azaleas in the shade? Although most of us still rely on friends or dumb luck to figure things out, there is a better way. The Plant Doctor is a gardeners one-stop resource for common gardening questions. Whether youre a novice struggling to keep your day lilies alive or a more exper ...

Flora (978 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.04 2007 on 10:18:26 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Gardeners Encyclopedia | This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of plants contains information on more than 20,000 plants from all around the world. Organized in an A-Z format by botanical name, the individual entries provide a detailed description of each plant and its features, including notes on origin, cultivation requirements, growth habit, propagation, and pests and diseases. ...