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Home Gardener's Annuals: The Complete Guide to Growing 37 Flowers in Your Backyard (Creative Homeowner) Step-by-Step Photos & Essential Information to Design & Maintain Your Garden (Specialist Guide)
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Product Description Create beautiful gardens with eye-catching annuals you can change every year! Over 280 color photographs and illustrations, plus zone maps Step-by-step instructions for planting are clear and concise Essential information to help you design gardens and borders, improve the soil, and maintain your plants Expert advice on picking the best plants for your yard and dealing with common garden pests and diseases Helpful tips that save time, effort, and money Planting annuals is a great way to quickly add color and texture to any garden, border, or landscape. Because annuals only last for one growing season, you can change the overall look of you garden every year! Home Gardener's Annuals shows you how to prepare the soil, select the right plants, when and how to plant, cultivate, and fertilize the plants, and maintain your garden. Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs illustrate the gardening tasks that will achieve the best results. This guide to creating beautiful gardens with eye-catching annuals also offers tips for saving time and money, along with useful advice on dealing with common garden pests and diseases. A well-illustrated A-Z directory shows how to achieve the best results with dozens of the most popular varieties. Home Gardener's Annuals includes information on: Starting plants from seed Transplanting Designing a garden Cottage garden plants Planning a cutting garden Container gardening Color schemes Soil amendments and fertilizers Efficient watering Deadheading Collecting and saving seeds Drying flowers Hardiness zone maps Pests and diseases Extensive A–Z of plants—basics, soil, planting, garden uses, and recommended cultivars Review Home Gardener's reference books could aid anyone who likes to coax flowers and other flora out of the ground and who would appreciate having a tremendous amount of information within reach. -- Sally Peterson, The Oregonian From the Back Cover Planting annuals is a great way to quickly add color and texture to any garden, border, or landscape. This guide to creating beautiful gardens with annuals offers concise instructions for preparing the soil, planting, fertilizing, and maintaining your annual garden. A well-illustrated A-Z directory shows how to achieve the best results with dozens of the most popular varieties. Find your information fast Straightforward answers to all your questions Important tips clearly presented Packed with vivid color photographs Useful information and special features Concise, easy-to-use reference guide Expert advice about garden design for annuals Packed with practical, step-by-step instructions Includes an A-Z directory of favorite annuals How to grow annuals to use in dried arrangements About the Author Miranda Smith was an expert grower who gardened and taught gardening for over 30 years. She was the author of five top-selling garden books, including Your Backyard Herb Garden, Backyard Fruits and Berries, and Greenhouse Gardening. She edited and was the primary writer of The Real Dirt, Farmers Tell about Organic and Low Input Practices in the Northeast.
