Flower Gardening

With the right guidance and a little practice, you can grow a cut-flower garden from seed and brighten every room in your home with fresh blooms! Flower Gardening for Beginners has all the information you’ll need to plan, cultivate, tend, harvest, and arrange homegrown flowers—no experience required.

Filled with expert tips and hundreds of beautiful photographs, celebrated dahlia educator Kristine Albrecht shares her dahlia growing secrets. Drawing on 18 years of growing experience, she has written the most detailed and comprehensive book on dahlia care.

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

Think you don’t have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution. Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you’re starting your first garden, looking to expand your crop, or simply searching for ways to make it easier to care for your extensive plant collection, you’ll find everything you need to know to make your garden grow.

Flower gardening dates back for centuries, and to this day millions of people create their own floral heaven each year. Some might say that it is one of the oldest hobbies known to mankind! However, each year hundreds and thousands of new gardeners will give up due to unforeseen issues with their garden.

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, aster for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own.

A complete primer for fresh and experienced planters alike, this book contains everything you need to know to start a happy and healthy raised-bed garden. Learn to build your bed, select the right plants, and so much more. Simple guides will have even the greenest gardeners serving up freshly picked vegetables in no time.

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.

La siembra asociada es una técnica de jardinería milenaria que agricultores y jardineros utilizan para cultivar de forma ecológica. Cuando aprenda cómo funciona la siembra asociada, verá que no hay necesidad de utilizar fertilizantes químicos, herbicidas y pesticidas, las plantas lo hacen todo por usted. Esta completa guía le proporcionará toda la información necesaria que pueda necesitar al iniciar su viaje de plantación asociada.

In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the world's most extraordinary plants and trees. Laroche had planned to clone the orchids and then sell them for a small fortune to impassioned collectors.

In Chaos Gardening, you surrender control and let nature take over. You will find it easy, exciting, and fun! No matter what garden style you choose, THE MEADOW GARDEN is your guide to cutting through the mountain of information online. This book strips gardening to its roots to help you create a low-maintenance wildflower wonderland that's as raw, natural, and breathtaking as nature intended.

Flowers may look pretty, but some can be downright deadly! In England, you can explore the Poison Garden—a place where flowers are known for their beauty on the outside and poison on the inside! In this story, you'll be able to learn about and see these flowers safely without interacting with them.

Do you like to spend time outdoors around beautiful scenery? If you want to make a living planting and selling gorgeous flowers, then this book is for you! Here are some of the things you’ll learn in this book: Important factors to look at before you get started, such as reviewing what weather zone the land for the flowers is in and the quality of the soil.

With a new introduction exclusively in audio, read by Anna Pavord. The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their parts in the development of the tulip into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts and plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.

Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Perennial Gardening and Growing Lavender. In part one, you will: Learn everything about perennial flowers, fruit, vegetables, herbs, and shrubs, and gain knowledge about the often-overlooked aspects of designing a garden. In part two, you will discover: How to grow lavender in your garden, how to prune your lavender for the best results year after year, and how to harvest your lavender safely and store it. Buy this audiobook now to learn more about perennial gardening and how to grow lavender!

Are you ready to turn your garden into a thriving ecosystem where every plant performs in perfect harmony? Dive into the ancient wisdom of companion planting, a technique refined through centuries, and learn how to orchestrate a symphony of flora that naturally bolsters plant health, enriches soil structure, and harmonizes pest control, all without a single drop of chemical intervention!

Learn how plants store food during the winter and carry water up to the leaves through roots and stems.

Leaves use sunlight to make energy, and when the sun fades, leaves burst into color.

Learn how plants grow using their roots and sunlight.