Flowers category: 871 books
Meaningful Bouquets
Create Special Messages with Flowers - 25 Beautiful Arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Say it with flowers. This visual bouquet includes a photographic glossary of popular flower types and their Victorian meanings, followed by step-by-step instructions for creating 25 beautiful arrangements. From Celebration and Luck, to Happiness and Forgiveness, each bespoke bunch of flowers suits...
Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers
Being Rural Wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
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The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.
Wide as may be the circle covered by a great town, we come to the country at last. Let the bricks and mortar stride far as...
The Flower Gardener's Bible
A Complete Guide to Colorful Blooms All Season Long: 400 Favorite Flowers, Time-Tested Techniques, Creative Garden Designs, and a Lifetime of Gardening Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Create the flower garden of your dreams. This comprehensive guide includes expert advice on everything from choosing an appropriate growing site to maximizing the lifespan of your plants. Charming illustrations and photographs accompany helpful tips on how to improve soil, fight off pests, and make...
You Grow Girl
The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality.
Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com,...
Enjoy Growing Your Own Great Rose Garden
A Definitive Rose Gardening Guide That Will Give You Superior Ideas On How To Grow Roses, Tips On Caring For Roses, Caring For Roses And A Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Flowers are a great addition to any garden, and/or room’s decor. The add color, fragrance, and elegance in what might be otherwise, dingy spaces. Nothing can offer quite as much as a great floral arrangement, especially if those flowers are roses.
Roses have always been a symbol of peace,...
by Diana Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1997
Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners only, this is a book for anyone interested not just in the blossoms, but in the roots, too.
Commercial Floristry
Designs and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This lavish book covers the full range of commercial techniques for the florist. It introduces basic terms and equipment, advises on conditioning and care of fresh materials, and explains the elements and principles of design. Examining various celebrations and occasions, it demonstrates classic and...
Garden Bouquets and Beyond
Creating Wreaths, Garlands, and More in Every Garden Season
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Suzy Bales sums up garden arrangements like this: "Life is best lived in sync with the seasons." She brings a new angle to four-season garden bouquets—gather the blooms, but don't overlook the leaves, branches, and vines you find in the off-season. Her fresh-from-the-garden arrangements...
by Sharon O. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
A Complete Guide To Flower Bulbs, Flower Delivery, Flower Garden, Design Ideas, Great Gift, Flower Cutting And Cultivation Tips!
Gardener's Guide to April Wildflowers
A Year in Wildflowers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Gardener's Guide to April Wildflowers includes twenty common early spring woodland wildflowers with photographs. This field guide allows easier identification of wildflowers in the field because it is composed only of the earliest wildflowers of the season, the wildflowers that begin bloom in April...
The Flower of Empire
An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation...
Easy-Care Orchids
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-250
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
It's Never Been Easier to Grow Orchids at Home
Have you heard that orchids are impossible to cultivate? Do you love orchids' exotic flowers but despair of ever having one survive in your home? Thing again! With simple instructions and straightforward advice from professional orchid grower Mary Carol...
Planning & Planting a Moon Garden
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-234
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
With today's schedules, few people are able to enjoy their gardens during prime daylight hours. But there is a way you can delight in the fragrance and beauty of flowers after dark: Plant a night-blooming garden! Also known as moon gardens, night-blooming gardens are expressly designed for evening...
Flowers and Gardens Illustrated, Vol 1
Garden Weeds - Invasive Plant Identification
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Here at last is the go-to book for identifying all the problem weeds in your gardening and landscaping life! Nancy Peters, aka The Weed Lady, has written a smart, charming, and utterly fascinating work to help you with the identification of garden weeds and other invasive plants that are lurking...