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This entertaining and informative ebook describes several colorful annual and hardy perennial flowering plants suitable for wonderful ground cover landscaping.The emphasis here is on those that provide outstanding floral displays along with their horizontal leafy growth.Ground-covering plants (especially those with profound blooming) are ideal solutions for difficult landscaping problem areas. The interlocking growing plants will smother weeds, cool...
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This informative and entertaining ebook combines my three earlier published ebooks about growing beautiful high-nectar garden flowers to attract bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Those ebooks are Bee-loved Garden Flowers, Hummingbird Garden Flowers, and Great Garden Flowers for Butterflies.An interest in attracting and protecting bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies has increased recently. The reason for this concerns the steady decrease in population...
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"250 Beautiful Flowers" is a comprehensive handbook on gardening that offers the reader information and step-by-step instructions on how to successfully cultivate a vast range of flowers suitable for the garden, as well as some helpful tips on gardening in general. Each flower has a simple description as well as instructions and information on propagation, culture, best varieties, and more. This timeless volume is highly recommended for keen garners...
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Now is the time to change your perception of flower gardening by not always looking down at flowers but stare directly at them. This ebook describes taller garden flowering plants averaging five feet or more in height. Don't be afraid to raise your flower gardens to new heights of loveliness and pleasure. Instead of planting boring beds or borders of ankle-to-kneecap level flower displays, it's time to cultivate and admire plants with colorful eye-level...
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Los lirios y las azucenas son flores de una gran belleza. Según la mitología, surgieron en la Tierra de una gota de leche que cayó del pecho de Hera; Afrodita, celosa de su blancura, habría decidido romperla con la mancha amarilla de los estambres. En este libro encontrará toda la información sobre estas flores:
- diferentes especies (lirios asiáticos, orientales, trompetas...);
- características y consejos para su cultivo;
- cuidados, métodos...
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This vintage book contains a fantastic guide to gardening, concentrating on planting and propagating perennials. A Perennial is a plant that lives for longer than two years and grows to boom over the spring and summer, dies every autumn and winter, and then returns in the spring from its rootstock. This term is usually often used to separate these types of plants from shorter-lived annuals and biennials, as well as to distinguish those that have little...
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Originarias de China, las peonías ofrecen una fantástica gama de colores y formas. En estas páginas encontrará toda la información y todos los consejos relativos a:
- su dinámica historia;
- sus características botánicas (flores, hojas, raíces...);
- sus cuidados básicos (lugar adecuado para la plantación, riego...);
- la lucha contra las enfermedades y los parásitos;
- las diferentes variedades (herbáceas y arbustivas) y sus exigencias...
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160 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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A garden designer and plant breeder, Oudolf designs gardens that use perennials exclusively, eschewing the current trend toward high-maintenance mixed borders of perennials, annuals, and shrubs. He values perennials for their form and texture, emphasizing structure as the most important aspect in successful garden design. The color of flowers comes in a distant third after the form of the plant and the shape of the leaves; Oudolf's motto is "a successful...
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