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FLOWER sa ABUTILON sa ACHILLEA sa ACHIMENE sa AFRICAN VIOLET sa ALLIUM sa ALYSSUM sa AMARYLLIS sa ANEMONE sa ANNUAL PLANT sa ARISAEMA sa ARMERIA sa ASTER sa ASTILBE sa BAPTISIA sa BEGONIA sa BIENNIAL PLANT sa BULB, CORM & TUBER sa CALENDULA sa CALLA LILY sa CALLIRHOE sa CALONYCTION sa CAMELLIA sa CAMPANULA sa CANNA sa CARNATION sa CENTAUREA sa CHRYSANTHEMUM sa CHRYSOPSIS sa CLEMATIS sa CLEOME sa CLERODENDRON sa CLIVIA sa COLOR IN GARDENS sa COLUMBINE sa COREOPSIS sa CORYDALIS sa COSMOS sa CROCUS sa CYCLAMEN sa DAHLIA sa DAISY sa DAYLILY sa DELPHINIUM sa DIANTHUS sa DICENTRA sa DICTAMNUS sa ECHINACEA sa EUSTOMA sa EVENING PRIMROSE sa FLOWER ARRANGING sa FLOWER GARDENING sa FORGET-ME-NOT sa FOXGLOVE sa FUCHSIA sa GARDENIA sa GENTIANA sa GERANIUM & PELARGONIUM sa GLADIOLUS sa GLOXINIA sa GOLDENROD sa GYPSOPHILA sa HAEMANTHUS sa HELIOTROPE sa HELLEBORUS (HELLEBORE) sa HEUCHERA sa HOLLYHOCK sa HYACINTHUS sa IMPATIENS sa IPOMOEA sa IRIS sa JASMINUM sa KOSTELETZKYA sa LATHYRUS sa LIATRIS sa LILIUM (LILY) sa LOBELIA sa LOVE-IN-A-MIST sa LUPINUS (LUPINE) sa LYCHNIS sa MALVA (MALLOW) sa MARIGOLD sa MONARDA sa MUSCARI sa NARCISSUS sa NASTURTIUM sa NEMESIA sa NICOTIANA sa ORCHID sa OXALIS sa PANSY sa PASSIFLORA (PASSION-FLOWER) sa PENTAS sa PENTSTEMON sa PEONY sa PERENNIAL PLANT sa PETUNIA sa PHLOX sa PLATYCODON sa PLUMERIA sa POINSETTIA sa POPPY sa PORTULACA sa PRIMULA sa ROSE sa RUDBECKIA sa SNAPDRAGON sa STRELITZIA sa STREPTOCARPUS sa SUNFLOWER sa THALICTRUM sa TULIP sa UVULARIA sa VERBASCUM sa VERBENA sa VIOLET (VIOLA) sa WILDFLOWER sa ZINNIA xx FLOWER GARDENING xx PLANT xx WILDFLOWER How to grow flowers for cutting. How to store bulbs, tubers and corms for the winter. How to create a beautiful garden with a combination of annuals, perennials, and ground cover. Guide to perennial blooms. Chart arranged by month from April to September shows what perennials will bloom in each month and the color of each flower. How to plant perennials. Includes color photos of those that are suitable for fall planting and instructions on how to prepare the planting area. A guide to growing eleven perennials. Fall planting guide to landscaping with spring blooming bulbs. Eight pages of photos highlight the easiest flowers to grow, both annuals and perennials. A guide to inexpensive minor bulbs to plant in the fall for spring color. An eight-page series of photos that shows annuals, perenials and vegetables that can be grown easily in a small place. A look at corms, tubers, rhizomes and tuberous root plants that are planted in early summer for hot weather color. How to create masses of color with beds of flowers. A guide to planning and planting a small (24'x24') start-from-scratch flower garden. Includes a list of trees and shrubs, spring-flowering bulbs and summer flowering plants. How to force bulbs into bloom indoors. A guide to help in planning perennial flower borders. Arranged by the month of flowering and includes the height and color of the most popular perennials. Six pages show how a professional landscape architect bordered his lawn with massive plantings of flowers. Article includes tips on soil preparation and how to plan a colorful flower border. How to plan a flower garden for early-spring to frost with nonstop color. Chart of best-known annual flowers and their characteristics (growth habit, height, colors and sowing time). Tip: Growing flowering plants from seeds. Planning for foolproof flower beds. Covers both perennials and annuals. Includes charts according to height. A guide to great flower beds you can grow from seed. How to plan and plant combinations of flowers to give you color all summer long. Tips on raising "no fuss" flowers (bedding plants) in pots and planters. Tips on planting for non-stop color in your flower garden. Tips on planting spring blooming bulbs. How to divide a perennial. Plant a fragrance garden. Suggestions on flowers, herbs and shrubs that add fragrance to the yard. Tips on keeping annuals blooming. Guide to plantings that will attract butterflies to a garden. Grow your own cut flowers from seed. Includes tips on how to keep cut flowers fresh in bouquets, how to grow flowers for dried arrangements and how to dry them. Tips for planting two different kinds of flowering bulbs in the same space. Includes planting instructions and suggestions for attractive pairings. Tip: How to force bulbs to bloom early inside during the winter. A general guide to easy-care perennial beds and borders. Tips on planting beds of annual flowers. How to combine perennials for blooms throughout the seasons. Fall gardening tips include transplanting trees and shrubs, exposed root planting, planting bulbs for spring flowers, and protecting evergreens from winter damage. The joy of an English garden. Choosing , planting, and caring for a perennial border. Bulbs to plant in the fall for spring flowers. A guide to Christmas plants for giving and receiving. Prepare now for a summer garden. How to plant bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers. Suggestions on growing annual flowers. Self-seeding annuals add color to gardens. Catch the seeds in the fall in a flat to have annuals to plant in the spring. Suggested annuals to try. How to plant a low maintenance perennial garden that will provide color from April through September. A guide to planting minor (little-flowered) bulbs. A guide to fall planting of bulbs that bloom in the spring. Tips on planting spring-flowering bulbs in the spring. Building a first perennial garden. One gardener's progress described. Designing a 220-ft. flower border. Tip: Plant spring-blooming bulbs in modified plastic mesh baskets to thwart rodents. A white spring garden. Suggestions for bulbs, shrubs and perennials which all produce white flowers in the spring. Tips on red or rose-pink perennials for a perennial border. Designing a flower garden for a small side yard. Incorporates a path, patio and plantings that evoke the feeling of an English cottage garden. A garden in Colorado at an elevation of 7,400 feet. Describes the selection of plants for the short frost-free season. Raising rhodohypoxis in pots for five months of blooms. Starting a perennial border. How to get striking results in two years. Covers plant selection, soil improvement, design and planting. Tips on causes of massive bulb failure. Fall perennials. A guide to five perennials that are most dramatic during the autumn. Growing everlastings, flowers which retain their color after harvesting and drying. Nine different plants described, along with tips on cutting and drying. Understanding the concept of hybrid flowers and how they are labeled in garden catalogs. Elegant alstroemerias. Information on seed stratification to raise two strains that will reproduce and expand in the garden. A guide to the all-American Selections in flowers and vegetables for 1979. Includes descriptions, uses and growing instructions. New flowers for 1979. A roundup of the new varieties. A guide to flowers that are really green. Tip on how to create a planting that spells out a name or other word in flowers. A look at the culture of a variety of hardy minor bulbs to bring early spring flowers. Plant a bluebell dell. How to raise miniature weeping crape-myrtles. How to raise night-blooming cereus. How to plant and raise crown imperials. How to raise a selection of widely adapted and reliable perennials for a long season of color. How to plan a potting party to prepare pots of bulbed plants (tulip and daffodil). Later you can sell the pot of blooming flowers to raise funds for a charity, etc. How to protect flower bulbs from damage by squirrels and skunks. Tips on growing the flowering annual "lavatera trimestris". How to create a skyline effect with vertical perennials. How to raise cinerarias, an ideal flower for cooler greenhouses. The when, where, how and what of growing great spring-flowering bulbs. How to raise cupheas. Selecting and arranging perennial plantings for fall color. Have a cutting garden. Selecting a locatation and the flowering shrubs, foliage plants, and flowers to include. One man's way to an easy care garden. Includes a list of hardy perennial plants that will live a great many years. Basic information about bulbs. Includes charts of planting depth. Using gray foliage to enliven your perennial garden. Pictures and plant descriptions given. Plant combinations that look well together. Selecting plants that bloom at the same time and complement one another. A list of possible combinations and time of blooming, as well as, color, texture and form discussed. Planning for late summer color from your perenial garden. A list of colorful late blooming flowers along with a suggestion of annuals to brighten the "August lull". How to rejuvinate perennials. A guide on when and how to do it, plus tips on handling some of the prevalent types. A guide to bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees that provide spring flowers and are considered the most reliable performers. Growing Love-Lies-Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus) from seed. Liriope (lily-turf). How to grow and propagate it. Includes a summary of varieties available. How to raise three old-time biennials (Sweet william, larkspur amd foxglove) from seed. Forcing spring bulbs. How to grow bulbs in soil-filled pots. Chart shows rooting times in a dark location and requirements during forcing and flowering. A guide to four seasons of fragrant outdoor flowers. How to get a lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans) to bloom. A look at gardening with perennials and suggestions on kinds that require little attention. A look at 20 reasons spring bulbs didn't bloom and how to correct these problems. Design and plant suggestions for a "Constitution Garden." Fall planting of spring-blooming bulbs. Includes tips on soil preparation and a tip on planting depths and spacing. A guide to small bulbs that bloom in the spring. A guide to invasive perennials. Some problem plants are identified, along with tips on ways to slow them down. Achimenes. How to grow them from seeds in pots, porch baskets or window boxes. Describes how to put them into dormancy and restart them the following spring. Giants of the perennial border. A look at plants that add structural interest with massive bulk or stately spires. Create a bulb border with a long blooming period. Includes tips on planting and care. Tips on putting in a bulb bed. Tips on getting coralbells to bloom. Using spire plants in the perennial border. A look at bugbane (Cimicifuga racemosa), foxglove (Digitalis), astilbe, ligularias, yucca, lythrum, delphiniums, gayfeather (Liatris), bear's-breeches (Acanthus mollis), red-hot-poker (Kniphofia), lobelia, hollyhock, salvia and veronica. Insert suggests staking options, including the English "pea bush" method. Naturalizing spring flowering bulbs. Tips on selecting long-blooming (everblooming) plants. How to read and follow information on plant tags when selecting and raising bedding plants. Vertical accents. Selecting and planting vertical accent plants (straight-stick plants, spire plants, etc.). Five night-blooming flowers noted. Heat-tolerant plants for a deck noted. Flowers that tower. Some floral giants recommended for the home flower garden. Advice on designing a border with tall flowers and growing conditions that affect a plant's habit. Same time next year. Tips on selecting and planting perennial flowers. How to use color in designing floral borders. Techniques for germinating and sowing annual and perennial flower seeds. Includes a list of germination requirements for common flower seeds. A look at flowers that bloom in the night. Five experts disclose their midsummer gardening secrets. (1) Late-season schemes to fill the spaces left by spent pea vines. (2) Growing rutabaga. (3) A watering system that functions almost unattended from mid-June to mid-August. (4) Growing annuals for quick color. (5) Endive culture. Considering flowers as food. A guide to edible flowers and suggestions on when to harvest them and how to use them. The art of forcing spring-flowering bulbs in December through March. Includes instructions on caring for forced bulbs so they will bloom again after a couple of years. Designing the perfect perennial border, one that flowers from April to October year after year. Tips from a grower on raising perennials from seed. The autumn art of naturalizing spring bulbs. A settler's bouquet. Advice for the novice on finding and growing the old plants that were cultivated by earlier settlers of an area. Ornamental garden pairings that create interest through the juxtaposition of forms, texture, foliage and flowers. Tips on preserving edible flowers. Includes a sugar syrup recipe. A moonlight herb and flower garden. Emphasis is on silver and gray herbs and night-scented flowers. Includes a plan and planting list for a glow-in-the-dark garden with a central fountain in a circular bed surrounded by circular and semi-circular beds. Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis), also called sweet rocket, damask violet, queen's gilliflower. Its culture as a flower in cottage gardens described. The flavor of flowers. A look at plants that produce flowers that are safe to eat and some of their culinary uses. Dandy candied. How to crystallize flowers and then store them for six to eight months. Tick, tock, a flower clock. A look at clock flowers, listed in order of the time of day that they open. Includes tips on planning a flower clock, a bed based on the time at which the flowers open. How to build a low stone wall and plant it with flowering perennials. Plant fall bulbs for spring blooms. Proper bulb planting techniques reviewed. Forcing bulbs to bloom indoors during the winter. Tips on stimulating (fertilizing) flowering plants during hot weather using coffee grounds, potato peels, or gelatin. Spring bulb planting chart includes planting depth and spacing. Get the best from spring-flowering bulbs. A guide to the correct planting depths. Tips on how to save some colorful outdoor perennials and annuals by potting entire plants or rooting cuttings for indoor winter enjoyment. Tips on creating your own hybrid flowers by cross pollinating. Plant bulbs now for beautiful spring flowers. Tips on selection and planting. Tips on raising perennials. Fall planting guide for hardy spring bulbs, ornamentals, and cool-season vegetables. Storing delicate summer bulbs. Some tips. Fall starts for spring bulbs. Some tips. Forcing bulbs to bloom indoors during the winter. Some tips. Plant bulbs now for a great spring showing. With careful planning you can have a colorful garden from early spring to late fall. Tips on raising simple annual flowers for borders, beds and shady areas. How to grow primulas. How to force bulbs for indoor winter blooms. The propagation and care of gloxinias. A guide to planting spring-flowering bulbs. How to propagate oleanders. Tips on growing summer annuals. Flowers for cutting. Selecting and planting flowers for a cutting garden. First blooms of spring. Advice on raising snowdrops, snowflakes, crocus, and other early spring flowers. Plant combination ideas to fill in the gaps left by early bloomers. (1) Oriental poppies and rose mallow. (2) Bleeding heart and baby's breath. (3) Sweet peas and daffodils. Bedding-plant schemes. Tips on buying and setting out tender bedding plants (geraniums, impatiens, heliotrope, nicotinas, and petunias). Flores Mexicanos. A guide to fall-blooming shrubby ornamentals that are prolific bloomers. Advice on getting tuberoses to bloom. Some night-blooming flowers that can be grown outdoors. Luxuriant laboratory. One Colorado gardener's successful experiments in a climate of extremes. Please eat the flowers. A guide to edible flowers and tips on ways to use them. Edible flowers. How to make a floral syrup. How to crystallize roses, violets and pansies as garnishes. How to plan your flower garden. How to layout the flowers to form colorful designs. Tips on selecting and planting flowers which grow from bulbs. Beginning gardening. Advice for those creating a first-time-ever vegetable, flower or herb garden. The cottage garden. The traditional English "everyman's" garden is enjoying an American revival. Tips on landscaping with perennials. Tips on planning and planting a perennial garden. A guide to creating ornamental lawns and flower beds that are appropriate for Victorian houses. Includes a guide to "carpet-bedding" plants. A practical plan for a cutting garden. How to grow flowers interspersed within a vegetable garden to provide for cut flowers. A look at favorite flowers for cuttings. How to raise Four-O'Clocks. A guide to fall planting of spring-blooming bulbs. Guidelines to planting perennials by sowing the seeds in the fall in a cold frame. Includes a chart of about 80 perennials with information on height, zone, color, blooming season, soil requirements, location and use as cut flowers. A guide to fall-planting bulbs for spring flowers. Tip on raising crocus, hyacinths, squills, and iris from seeds. Tips on raising blooming bulb flowers indoors during the winter. Tip on growing a "living" curtain to cover the outside of a window. Tips for better bulbs. How to plan perennial beds for color with three different strategies (color grouping, dominant color, and a spectacular effect). Plant flowers under Norway maples by using pots sunk in the ground. How to divide perennials. A guide to edible flowers that can be added to salads. Also includes a list of flowers that are toxic and cannot be used. A guide to easy-care choices of northern annuals to direct-seed for bloom from early summer through frost. A guide to winter-blooming bulbs. Includes tips on designing a winter bulb garden. Looking at lupines. A guide to varieties and tips on growing them. Suggestions on raising flowers to sell for cut-your-own bouquets. Includes tips on selling and a germination guide for most popular annuals and perennials How to grow a popular trio of perennials: bellflowers, cranesbills and lilies. Gardening with slow-growing biennial flowers. Design for a spring bulb bed that uses 21 varities. How to force spring bulbs to bloom indoors. Three garden plans that combine vegetables, flowers and herbs for a beautiful, edible border. An everlasting garden. A plan for a circular garden, 16-ft. in diameter, that includes 12 herbs and some additional flowers that can all be dried for use in arrangements and wreaths. A guide to easy-care annuals: vinca, salvia, celosia, portulaca, gazania, lobelia, verbena, sanvitalia, lisianthus, and flowering cabbage/kale. Includes flower bed design hints. Tip: How to germinate cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) seeds. A guide to fall planting of spring bulbs. Emphasizes some of the lesser known bulbs. A culinary guide to 15 edible flowers. Chart describes taste, bloom time, growing advice and cooking tips. Landscape borders that mix vegetables and flowers. Notes on some good combinations. Tip: How to germinate forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica). The basic techniques for naturalizing spring bulbs. Includes tips on planning, types and varieties that best suit the technique, planting and care. An in-depth look at gardening in the Deep South. First in a series about gardening in special geographic regions. Includes diagrams that show how to control weeds, soil diseases and nematodes using solarization. List of the best perennials for the South. Two-page chart of common southern insect pests and organic remedies for each. Chart of planting and harvest dates for nine combinations of vegetables that do well in the south using succession planting and multiple cropping in the home garden. A guide to self-sowing annuals, perennials, vegetables and herbs. Edible flowers. A listing of 20 culinary standouts and a partial listing of common poisonous plants. New cutting garden. Mix long-stemmed cutting flowers with your garden favorites for a natural look. Layout for an innkeeper's cutting garden and a list of selected flowers for cutting is included. Tips on creating a "natural" arrangement of cut flowers. Sixteen frost-fighting flowers to start inside and then move outside early in the spring. Forty-four flameproof flowers. Sun-loving varieties that do well in summer heat. Eleven no-fail flowers that are easy to start from seed and guaranteed to bloom in any garden. The ten easiest cutting flowers you can grow. Includes tips on conditioning cut flowers. Heirloom flowers. A guide to growing old-fashioned varieties of some favorites (columbine, bleeding heart, heliopsis, garden phlox, Canterbury bells, foxglove, hollyhock, four o'clocks, sweet peas, larkspur, nicotianas, nasturtium, morning glories, stock and zinnias). Beautiful blooms for problem soils. Plant suggestions for sandy, alkaline, heavy clay and sour soils. Flowers that plant themselves. Selecting and planting self-sowing flowers. A guide to fall-blooming perennials. How to create a cutting garden that's convenient and productive. How to make cut flowers last longer. Year-round gardens. A combination of form and function that creates a garden for all seasons. Suggestions on pathways, plant materials with seasonal interest and garden design. How to plant spring-blooming bulbs in pots. Includes detailed chart of instructions for dutch iris, crocus, daffodil, hyacinth, anemone, ranunculus and tulip. How to create an ever-blooming old-fashioned garden. Includes charts of suggested plantings. A look at the favorite flowers, trees and shrubs from four western mild-winter areas. A guide to selecting a wide range of bedding flowers for months of winter color in California. How to raise bulbs in a pot. Tips on planting, conditioning and making your own planting mix. A guide to starting and raising ranunculus. How to start wooly blue curls (trichostema lanatum) from seeds. Step-by-step photos show how to divide perennials. A summer of color from seeds. Three Sunset garden contest winners tell how they raise colorful flowers from seeds. Tips on planting 5 different "offbeat" bulbs in January. Tips on planting crocosmia. How to plan a garden in which you grow flowers for cutting. Summer flowers to start from seed now. How to make your own "color bowls" of flowers. Some wind-tolerant flowering plants to grow. Tips on planting vinca rosea and verbena. How to grow agapanthus, amaryllis, crocosmia, and daylillies (easy-care summer bloomers). Tips on how to plant a permanent garden. Tips on growing nemesia, schizanthus and linaria. Plant bulbs and annuals together in the same pots. Tips on planting bergenia. How to plant a perennial border for spring bloom. A guide to violas, pansies and Johnny-jump-ups. How to plant bulbs in a naturalized setting. Rules to follow and to break when planting bulbs in pots. Includes instructions for year-round care. How to raise tuberoses and acidantheras. Tips on raising calceolaria flowers. Tips on growing meadowsweet or queen-of-the-prairie (Filipendula rubra). How to grow the pincushion flower (scabiosa atropurpurea). How to choose and grow lantana. Tip: How to rejuvenate flowering plants to encourage new blooms. Tip: How to divide perennials. How to grow the poker plant or torch-lily (Kniphofia uvaria). Tip: How to space flowers and ground covers evenly in groups of four. Includes charts showing how much area plants will cover. A guide to ten summer annuals and perennials that will bloom all summer and into the fall. A guide to five bulbs that bloom in partial shade and tips on planting them. A guide on how to choose a bulb and what flower performance to expect from various sizes and qualities. Choosing and using perennials in Western U.S. gardens. Tips on deadheading to keep flowers coming in all seasons. Buying potted plants in bloom and then planting them outside for longer life. Some tips. Proper care for spring-flowering bulbs which will increase the number and quality of your spring bulbs. Tips on choosing and planting drought-resistant bulbs. The unthirsty 100. Listing of shrubs, ground covers, perennials, vines and trees which get along with little or no summer watering. Tips on planting and watering. Tips on Fall planting of perennials. Five guidelines for planting flower beds and still conserving water. Tip: How to plant bulbs in drifts. Easygoing flower borders that combine perennials and biennials. One is designed for along a fence, another to surround a deck. Hybrid alstroemerias (Peruvian lilies). Tips on selecting and raising this South American herb with a lily-like flower. Tips on raising blue lace flower (trachymene coerulea), an Australian cut flower that resembles Queen Anne's lace. Ideas for water-wise and friendly gardens as seen in Carmel (CA). Tips on raising pincushion flowers (scabiosa) and Stokes aster (stokesia). All-season color in a flower garden in coastal Southern California. Tips on plant and seed selection, month by month. Tips on how to plant living bouquets. Combining plants for spectacular effects in beds and pots. Tips on how to coax bulbs into bloom. How to care for spring flowering bulbs after they have bloomed. How to divide perennials in the spring. A look at some easy-to-grow flowering annuals. How to plan annual flower beds. How to start flowering plants indoors from seeds and cuttings. How to force bulbs for winter bloom. How to choose annuals for flower arrangements. A guide to planting cutting beds. Includes techniques for using the fresh flowers in arrangements and for drying them. Companion planting: Combining vegetables and flowers when space and time is limited. Taking fragrance into account when you're planning and planting your garden. Tips on popular perennials that can be planted in the fall, along with hints for preparing the soil and protecting the plants through winter. Planning and caring for your flower bed. Tips on location and soil preparation for a healthy flower bed. | |||||||||
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