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An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
Suzanne McIntire
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Description for An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
Hardcover. Using both common and botanical names, Suzanne McIntyre discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs, providing sensible directions for choosing ideal plants. She illustrates her advice with personal accounts of successes and failures. Num Pages: 288 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 535.
Any avid gardener knows the frustration of searching in vain for realistic and practical gardening resources. Coffee-table books full of lush images of English country gardens and technical volumes on landscape design are of little use to dirt-under-the-nails gardeners seeking straight answers to questions about planning a cutting garden that really produces. Suzanne McIntire provides a bumper crop of such down-to-earth help in An American Cutting Garden. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs and provides sensible directions for choosing ideal plants. Often illustrating her advice with ... Read more
Any avid gardener knows the frustration of searching in vain for realistic and practical gardening resources. Coffee-table books full of lush images of English country gardens and technical volumes on landscape design are of little use to dirt-under-the-nails gardeners seeking straight answers to questions about planning a cutting garden that really produces. Suzanne McIntire provides a bumper crop of such down-to-earth help in An American Cutting Garden. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs and provides sensible directions for choosing ideal plants. Often illustrating her advice with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920627
SKU
V9780813920627
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99
About Suzanne McIntire
Suzanne McIntire is a freelance writer and seasoned veteran of gardening in the hot summers and cold winters of northern Virginia. She is the editor of The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People.
Reviews for An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
A refreshing 'how-to' book for creating a cutting garden, McIntire writes with a wonderful sense of humor and provides continually useful information throughout the book. - Holly H. Shimizu, cohost of PBS's The Victory Garden and Executive Director, U.S. Botanic Garden