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A comprehensive, colourful and easy-to-use guide to bulbs. Learn how to choose the kinds of bulbs that will provide an annual display in your garden for years to come and, with each passing year, bring you a more lavish and glorious display. Stunning colour photographs allow easy identification and inspiration for even the [...] 
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 one's [...]  Pocket Guide to Bulbs John E. Bryan This handy guide provides descriptions of more than 700 of the best garden bulbs along with 300 color photographs. Descriptions include basic information on cultivation, maintenance, pests, and bulbs for specific landscape uses.
Gardeners of all levels will appreciate this sturdy, handy pocket guide's [...]  Bulbs for Garden Habitats [Illustrated] [Hardcover] by Judy Glattstein
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a bulb is a bulb is a bulb, right? Wrong, according to Glattstein, and after planting and cultivating tens of thousands of bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes (collectively termed geophytes), she should know. Whereas bulb gardening is often thought to [...]  Describes over 1,000 bulbs and bulblike plants from all over the world. Arranged in the calendar order in which they flower. Text and illustrations guide gardeners on how to plant and grow bulbs. Ideal for plant identification and selection, this terrific series features immaculate photography (one picture for virtually every entry) and clear, concise [...] 
Irises and their relatives are lily-like plants related to the orchid and narcissus families, with whom they share a propensity for large, brightly colored, attractive flowers. Many have longlasting flowers—Iris, Gladiolus, and Freesia are among the most important cut-flower crops in the world. The intricate flowers of the iris family are [...] Practical advice on growing and caring for bulbs, including over-wintering, propagation, and general tasks such as dead-heading, watering and feeding and an easy-to-use photographic directory of bulbs, with detailed advice on key varieties and their growing requirements. Price: $18.99 Click here to buy from [...] Guide – How to Garden in the shade Check it out!  The Cape Province of South Africa enjoys a Mediterranean climate similar to that of much of California, but the exotic bulbs native to the region can, with proper care, be grown in harsher & wetter climates. This book describes the author's favorites, all of which he has successfully grown in his garden. Price: $34.95 [...] North America is home to approximately four dozen bulbous genera. Among these are some very popular rock garden plants, such as Calochortus, Erythronium, and Fritillaria, which have never had anything substantial written about them in book form. Others, including Calydorea, Hypoxis, and Muilla, are not as well known outside specialist collections. The characteristics that [...] 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 you’ve got Buried Treasures. For decades, Rukans has been scouring remote and dangerous regions of Europe and Asia to bring back the botanical [...] 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 [...] The Cape Region, at the southern tip of Africa, is easily among the richest centers for bulbous plants and probably the most famous. Nearly 1200 species of bulbous plants find their home there and almost three-quarters of them occur nowhere else. This first complete account of all the bulbous plants of the Cape Floral [...]
This book contains information on all the pertinent facts of bulbs and tubers, including: advice on the best bulbs and tubers to grow in various seasons; what to look for when buying new bulbs; how to propagate and much more. Price: $19.95 Click here to buy from [...] The book covers general topics of virus classification, transmission, purification, detection, diagnosis and control. It also describes major flower bulb, cut flower, flowering potted plant, and some of the most important bedding plants. The editors provide the most up-to-date information and the principles presented here will be applicable when new methodology is applied to [...]
First Edition 150,000 copies! Over 200 different flowers you grow from bulbs get the world-famous flower doctor’s treatment. See which are best for indoor growing and which are best outdoors, with a plan so you’ll enjoy colorful blooms all year-round–from Amaryllis, Begonia, Crocus, and Dahlia, through Irises, Lilies, Narcissus, Tulip, and Zephyranthes. [...] Bulbs by John E. Bryan "One of the classics of technical gardening literature. . . . An absurdly informative volume, with nearly 1200 color illustrations." — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review, June 2, 2002 John Bryan’s substantive revision to his original magnum opus published in 1989—selected by the American Horticultural Society [...] Bulb gardening in the southwestern and southern United States presents challenges unknown in cooler climates. Bulbs that turn Holland into a kaleidoscope of color droop and fade in our mild winters, hot summers, and uncertain rainfall. Yet hundreds of native and naturalized species of bulbs thrive in these same conditions and offer as [...] Bulbs by John E Bryan John Bryan’s substantive revision to his original magnum opus published in 1989 provides expanded coverage of some 230 genera and a staggering number of species, varieties, and cultivars. Genera are treated [...] |
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