Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 208 pages
- Published by: Taylor Trade Publishing April 25, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0878332359
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0878332359
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Book Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.1 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 2.2 pounds
From Library Journal
Odenwald (landscape architecture, Louisiana State Univ.) and Welch (horticulture, Texas A&M) are well qualified to write about growing flowers for cutting and sharing in the South. The greatest part of their book is a catalog of plants, arranged by plant type and illustrated with photographs, that can be grown in the South and used in fresh and dried arrangements. In addition, the book contains chapters on marketing flowers, conditioning cut flowers, and the Southern tradition of sharing flowers from one's own garden in church, in hospitals and sickrooms, and at funerals. The authors emphasize the uses of flowers and other plant parts in arrangements, not plant cultivation per se. An great choice for libraries serving Southern gardeners.
-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
The Bountiful Flower Garden is a beautiful, lavishly illustrated compendium for growing and showcasing cut flowers from the southern garden. Beginning with the influences of the European, Asian and American heritages. The Bountiful Flower Garden reveals how to extend the life of cut flowers in order to bring their beauty indoors. It details when, how and where to cut, as well as when and how to employ chemical extenders. The Bountiful Flower Garden offers the reader invaluable information on other plants effective in cut-flower arranging. The Bountiful Flower Garden is enhanced with lists, essays, and step-by-step instructions regarding trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, foliage plants, and berry/fruit plants. The Bountiful Flower Garden is the definitive guide and a wonderful book for family gardeners and interior designers to simply browse through in search of ideas and possibilities for enriching the atmosphere and decor of homes and offices.
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