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Great Rotary Cutting Secrets-- Plus Piecing, Pressing amp; Finishing; 12 Gorgeous ProjectsHundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques guaranteed to INSTANTLY IMPROVE every quilt you make!Rotary Cutting Secrets: Rotary cutting is a breeze once you know the secrets for choosing the right equipment and cutting accurately, comfortably, and safely.Pressing Simplified: Perfectly flat blocks are easy to achieve with tried-and-true methods for pressing.Perfect Piecing: Even tricky piecing techniques are a snap when you follow the step-by-step photos and illustrations.Tips and Tricks Galore: Your quilt will be square, flat, and beautifully bound after you've put the easy tips and tricks into practice.12 Projects for You to Make: Easy and accurate directions make these quilts go together in a snap, no matter what your skill level is.
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Few things are more beautiful than a bouquet of flowers, and growing and cutting your own adds immeasureably to the pleasure a bouquet brings. In this book, illustrated with 50 inspiring color photographs, the gardener's cut-flower season extends from late winter, with shrubs and trees to force indoors, through the spring and summer flowers -- bulbs, annuals, perennials -- the "everlastings" you can grow for winter's dried flower bouquets. Especially valuable are the sections on when and how to cut flowers, how to condition them, and suggestions on combining different flowers into carefree arrangements. The basic mechanics of flower arranging and photos of home-grown bouquets will encourage novice gardeners.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful book.......2007-09-27
This is a wonderful book. Beautiful photographs and lots of helpful suggestions for planning and making a cutting garden, and for arranging flowers. Also a large section describing plants suitable for a cutting garden. Well worth the money.
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The first complete gardening book to cover the hot, dry, desert and plains areas of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, Idaho, Montana. Topics include: extensive plant lists for all areas, hardscape ideas using rock and wood, where to find garden art and how to use it to create your own regional aesthetic, as well as hundreds of practical suggestions to overcome the challenges of gardening in the Intermountain West.
Customer Reviews:
Best Book To-Date For The Cold Western United States.......2007-06-05
Marcia and Charles have produced a wonderful regional gardening book that is everything such a book should be--chock full of hard-won wisdom about the best plants to grow and beautiful photography to illustrate the plants and their region, the Intermountain West. Gardeners in Boise, Denver, Flagstaff, Pueblo, Taos, Santa Fe, Cheyenne, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Provo, Cedar City, Reno, Elko, Moscow and other cities throughout the cold winter climates of the western United States (and the corresponding parts of China, Iran and the steppes of Asia) will all draw inspiration. Marcia's humorous anecdotes about her experiences and tribulations in her gardens entertain and inform as she describes hundreds of species of plants in rock gardens, perennial gardens, integrating cacti, proper use of shrubs, roses and much information on uses of garden ornaments. Charles' brilliant photography of plants, landscapes and gardens blends seamlessly with Marcia's text and Marcia's husband, Randy, also contributes some exceptional photography of the Tatroe garden. Please, take a drink from this firehose of a gardening book. You will learn something new from each page.
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Many people love the idea of a house full of fresh-cut flowers, but sadly, most have no idea how to select, care for, and arrange flowers, much less grow them. Flowers A to Z is a superb guide for anyone who enjoys flowers and wants to celebrate them in the home or garden. Author Cecelia Heffernan, a floral designer by trade, provides a wealth of information on how to cut, purchase, arrange, care for, and grow all types of flowers.
The book is divided into sections covering everything leading up to a beautiful flower arrangement sitting on your dining room table. It begins with a chapter on hardware, which details all the basic tools--from floral shears to floral wire and tape--that you'll need for cutting and arranging flowers, as well as advice on choosing and caring for vases and other containers. The "Handling Flowers" chapter explains the proper way to cut, condition, and care for flowers to ensure the most attractive and long-lasting arrangements. The author sprinkles valuable tidbits of advice throughout the book. She suggests, for instance, that it is better to use branches or thick foliage as arranging aids instead of floral foam, chicken wire, or other artificial aids, as those can shorten the vase life of flowers significantly. This section concludes with a concise and informative guide to growing flowers in your home garden.
The final section, which makes up the bulk of the book, is an alphabetically arranged guide to flowers from agapanthus to zinnia. Each flower is depicted in a gorgeous full-page photograph, while smaller images show the flowers in different stages of development, illustrating the difference between fresh and older flowers. The informative text is written in a handy reference style, detailing the specifics of each flower: its scientific name, available colors, scent, how long the blooms will last after being cut, relative cost, and other useful information.
The gorgeous photographs, accessible text, and handy cross-referencing will surely inspire many readers to fill their homes and gardens with blossoms. --Robin Donovan
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Here is the ultimate guide for anyone who enjoys flowers. Flowers A to Z provides a wealth of advice on buying plants and cut flowers, growing them, cutting them in your garden, caring for them, and arranging them. Arranged alphabetically from Agapanthus to Zinnia, the book features magnificent full-page photographs of each flower, along with information on the flower's names and varieties; available colors; scent; characteristics of freshness; and relative cost. A wonderful combination of beauty and practicality, this book is essential for any flower lover.
Customer Reviews:
Great Service.......2006-02-25
Even though there was a delay in shipment, I was very satisfied with the price and the condition the book was in. I definately would purchase again from amazon.com.
Cindy
I use this book all the time!.......2001-10-05
This book is a great resource for anyone with a cutting garden, a love of flowers, or a romantic husband. It's full of great tips for all different types of flowers and has allowed me to increase the longevity of the bouquets I receive.
I liked it so much that I bought one for mother's day.
The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it shows flowers being cut in air when they should always be cut underwater!
Simply Stunning.......2001-08-08
Not only is this book packed with the most gorgeous photographs, but also it's also full of practical advice. As the title suggests, it is arranged in alphabetical order so that looking for the flower you are after is quick and easy. Each flower is presented with a double page spread, and includes tips on buying, growing, arranging and cutting. It's an extremely useful reference with information on important flower-related problems such as how to make each flower last longer in the vase, what's poisonous, etc. it even gives you the meaning of flower names. Even if you're not into the practical side of arranging flowers, this book is equally valuable as a stunning coffee table book.
Great For Your Reference Library or Your Coffee Table.......2001-07-08
"Flowers A to Z" is a wonderful resource that is definitely needed. Essentially it is a dictionary of flowers, containing information about names, colors, vase life, how to tell freshness, availability, designing tips and more!! But what a dictionary!!!! It is a very large and visually stunning book, lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs. "Flowers A to Z" provides very practical information about floral product in a format that elevates the content to an art book! Pros and hobbyists alike will appreciate it for both its content and presentation. "Flowers A to Z" would be equally appropriate in your reference library or on your coffee table.
Finally..A fabulous guide for cut flowers.......2001-03-29
For anyone who enjoys flowers, this book is a must! Full of artfully done full-page color photos, it contains a wealth of information on cut flowers. What I really liked was the types of flowers the author choose to include, hydrangea, fritillaria, peonies as well as many other unique varieties. Very upscale and cutting edge, this is not your run of the mill book on daisies. Each flower contains 2 full pages and includes growing and arranging tips, as well as care and handling. An indispensable reference.
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NOTE: New paperback edition includes COLOR photos.
In 'An American Cutting Garden' Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop--all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs. McIntire includes information on topics such as the length of stems one might expect from the cutting garden, how many plants are needed of any one kind, when and how to sow seed outdoors, the heat-hardiness of plants, and strategies for coping with the effects of hot summers and cold winters. This new paperback edition includes color photos.
Customer Reviews:
Cutting Gardens by Your Best Friend Who You Never Met.......2006-02-12
So many garden books so little time! Yet take time for McIntire's hands on common sense. McIntire has spent 14 years experimenting and learning. It's as if your friend had decided to help you get started. And she can write. No matter where you are gardening, McIntire's got tips to get you started and to increase your expertise if you have already begun. If you are a real novice get a copy of the American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (ISBN 8789419432) which has all the pictures of all the plants. But, if you want to learn what to plant under what conditions and how to succeed no matter how small, how shaded, how unfavorable your conditions might be, McIntire will, with writing which approaches the garden writing greats in style, lead you in the right direction. Skill is not the secret. But McIntire will provide you with the skills she has developed and the love for the process of gardening that nurtures every gardener, new or old. Best of all she will not send you out to buy 18 irises at $18.00 each. You can start with packets of seed. She follows in the footsteps of Henry Mitchel and Elenor Perenyi. Yet she provides simple access. Any latin or common name can be found in her Index of Plants. If you wonder how to coordinate various plants so that you have things in bloom over the season, there is a Sequence of Bloom for all the plants mentioned. Now the paperback has 28 color pictures (buy the A to Z). Gardening is much more than the photos in books and catalogues. We don't have Vita Sackville West's gardeners. We don't live at White Flower Farm. We have a small plot of mediocre soil and hope. Suzanne McIntire will provide you with both the knowledge and the intangible sprit to produce a cutting garden with flowers you will love and cherish. Try it. Try it. You will see!
Good for First Timers.......2005-12-11
Sensibly organized, this book was a terrific guide for a new grower like me. Though I've long been a gardening fan, I've rarely grown flowers for cutting and never with a plan. This helped make it managable and fun.
The new paperback has color pictures!.......2005-02-11
The new paperback has 28 new color photos with loads of different flowers in them, all identified in the captions and mentioned in the text!
Wealth of wonderful information, but . . ........2004-08-04
NO pictures! Not for a novice, like me, who needs pictures to see what the actual plant / flowers look like in a garden. I wish that had been made clear before I purchased the book.
An American Cutting Garden.......2002-09-23
Finally a book that helps me navigate through the garden with a bit of information that is useful.I had great success using this text as a tool to prepare my beds for spring and summer. My garden looked beautiful. I experimented with new plants well.
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Reveals the mysteries of creating the dramatic, often startling miniature plants that typify the art of Bonsai; illustrated with beautiful 4-color photographs.
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Grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your Florida home landscape. Treat yourself or a friend to this new edition (the third) of "A Cutting Garden for Florida." It tells how to grow the best cut flowers for Florida, and how to harvest, condition, and arrange them, fresh or dry. The month-by-month calendar for the distinctive northern, central, and southern regions of Florida is a valuable feature. The book has in-depth information on many annuals, biennials, bulbs, shrubs, and trees, including plant-by-plant growing and conditioning details. The index, illustrations, bibliography, resource list, website list, and public garden directory add to its thorough treatment of growing flowers and filler for delightful bouquets.
Customer Reviews:
Good Florida Gardening Resource.......2007-01-20
Very good resource for learning about fall/winter gardening in Florida. There is a lot of information in it on how to cut & preserve the different flowers for arrangements. And it lists and describes which flowering plants will survive in Florida (so many won't), using the authors' firsthand experience. This book was very helpful in that way. Too bad I found out my soil is too alkaline. Hopefully, it can be improved.
essential for anyone trying to grow a floriferous garden in Central Florida's challenging climate... .......2005-10-01
A practical, precise, and unique book, essential for anyone trying to grow a floriferous garden in Central Florida's challenging climate... If you're not interested in cut flowers per se, don't be put off -- the book is an excellent reference for growing any flowers in Central Florida.
Though the title says it's for Florida, in fact the authors are pretty upfront with their geographical focus: North Florida can use any gardening book published for the Deep South, so this book concentrates on gardening in Central and, to a lesser degree, South Florida.
A Cutting Garden is not the work of horticultural experts in the narrow sense, since neither of the authors is a professional landscaper or botanist. That's by no means a criticism: Sometimes you need the wise words of experienced lovers of green things. Add that to a pretty good ear for good gardening prose and enough exactitude to please without overwhelming, and Brandies and Mackey's book fills a real niche.
The level of specificity is this book's best attribute: To a degree I've never before encountered in a gardening book for Florida, "Cutting Garden" offers exact advice on when, where and what to plant in your garden to produce plenty of blooms. They begin the book with an excellent and efficient discussion of Florida's climactic and soil conditions before offering the the whys and hows of establishing a cutting garden, intelligently treating the installation of garden beds, mulching, frost insurance, pest control. Readers will find the best seasonal guide to planting I've found for Florida (with the exception of MacCubbin's Month-by-month Gardening In Florida) and a fine section on starting plants from seeds and cutting.
Florida's humidity, heat and sun make growing Foxglove, Snapdragons, Delphinum, Stock, and many other traditional cutting flowers difficult. Mackey and Brandies advise planting many of these perennials as biennials, taking advantage of Central Florida's nearly frost-free climate to plant seedlings in November for blooms in February through June. Of course, since most of these plants aren't available in the nurseries around here, you'll have to start them as seeds. The book offers advice on specific cultivars and species, and even seed distributors.
A long chapter, the best of its kind for Florida, is devoted to bulbs that work in Central Florida's sandy, hot and nematode-prone soils. Many of these are hard-to-find or "old-fashioned" bulbs that have fallen out of favor: Sparaxis, Freesia, Camassia, Babiana, Watsonia and Tritonia. (They can be purchased through easytogrowbulbs.com, which specializes in hot-climate bulbs.) Some bulbs are practically care-free: Spraxis and Watsonia, for instance, are essentially Gladiolus, bulbs that perform well here 10 months of the year. Some of the bulbs they recommend Ranunculus and (maybe) Oxalis will have to be dug out and stored. Frankly, many of these bulbs cost less than a dollar apiece when bought in quantity -- I plan to treat them like annuals and, if they come back next year, so much the better.
Especially strong is their concentration on atypical bulbs, perennials and annuals -- plants like Candytuft, Bells of Ireland, Sweet William Catchfly, Toadflax, Laurentia, Pot Marigolds, Shoo-fly Plants, and Love in a Mist. I haven't had a chance to try any of these, but I've bought the seeds at Thompson & Morgan and Parks Seeds and already started many of them.
Since this is a book devoted to cutting gardens, every flower entry has directions on how to cut and best preserve the flowers for long vase life. The last part of the book is devoted to a discussion of flower arranging -- not my thing, personally, but the advice is good.
Some minor gripes, and then I'll have to bring this review to a close: There's practically no discussion of the garden rose -- the best flower, for cutting or otherwise, here in Central Florida. The authors admit that roses should find their way into every garden, but offer little in the way of substantive advice on choice and cultivation. For that, you'll have to turn to Barbara Oehlbeck's quirky but excellent For the Love of Roses in Florida and Elsewhere. Mackey and Brandies give short shrift to orchids, too, though they are fairly easy to grow here in Florida and make excellent cut flowers.
Finally, I haven't seen the latest edition of the book, but the second edition lacks photographs, illustrations amounting to a few sketches that aren't terribly useful. For pictures to go with the excellent text descriptions, you'll have to look on the web (Dave's Garden is a great place to start) or in other books (Florida Gardener's Guide by Georgia Tasker and Tom MacCubbin has the best, most useful illustrations for Florida flora that I've found).
Great advice for the Florida cutting garden.......2003-09-09
Living in Florida I can vouch for the difficulties of growing just about anything in the sandy, nutrient poor, water deficient soil. Starting from that less than perfect base Betty Barr Mackey and Monica Moran Brandies walk the reader through the various things they need to know in order to grow a beautiful cutting garden. From finding the right place, to properly preparing the soil, to picking the appropriate flowers for soil, sun, and moisture conditions "A Cutting Garden for Florida" covers everything you need to know to have a successful garden. It even covers germination times, when a particular flower blooms, how long it blooms, and other information so you can make sure that when one flower goes out of season another is coming in. This is a highly recommended book for anyone dealing with the daunting task of getting flowers to grow in Florida.
Absolutely fantastic! A must for your garden bookshelf!.......2002-10-12
Simply fabulous is the word for this book and not only for those gardeners who live in Florida! A Cutting Garden For Florida was written to help those who live there learn to extend the season and be able to grow plants for bouquets in both the warm and cool seasons however a gardener in the northern states could just as easily adapt the information to their specific climate.
This is one of the few gardening books that has kept me intrigued enough to not want to put it down until I was finished with it. Also it does contain a lot of basic information about seed starting, choosing a site and other information a more advanced gardener would already know I would still highly recommend this book as there is information that even they may not know.
The book goes on to give specific details about various plants that make excellent cut flowers, as well as tips for drying the bouquets and basic flower design techniques.
This one is definitely up there on my list of books you simply must have regardless of where you live but if you live in Florida you simply cannot do without this one!
A superb horticultural and cultivational guide.......2001-12-13
Now available in a newly revised, expanded and updated third edition, A Cutting Garden For Florida continues to be a marvelously detailed, instructive, easy to understand guide to growing top-class flowers for bouquets and landscape improvement. Nursing seedlings, propagating plants from cuttings, as well as forming a cutting garden with annuals, biennials, perennials, or trees and shrubs are all covered, with easy-to-follow instructions delivered in clear, direct prose. Black and white sketches of various plants illustrate the techniques and species-specific entries. A Cutting Garden For Florida is a superb horticultural and cultivational guide and a "must" not just for Florida's gardening enthusiasts, but for anyone interested in creating a beautiful cutting garden of their own!
Customer Reviews:
A great resource.......2000-03-01
Highly recommended for readers who want not only to look at beautiful pictures, but want a complete bibliography of plants including zone information and complimentry plantings. This book demonstrates that you can have beautiful cutting gardens that fit within a landscape rather than separate landscape beds and cutting beds.
Average customer rating:
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Cutting, Carving & Decorating Mats
Brian Wolf; CPF; GCF
Manufacturer: Columba Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Product Description
Renowned expert Brian Wolf shares his wealth of knowledge about mat cutting and decoration in this new 96 page book. How to choose color combinations and design well-proportioned mats; multi-angles, V-grooves, inlays, color panels, and Brian's unique mat carving techniques. Included patterns to trace for mat carving. Brian's favorite tips and tricks, making traditional ink lines with ruling pens, and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Great information, uninspired presentation..........2005-12-25
I recently began to cut my own mats and as a result, searched for books that would teach me how to enhance my product. This book is excellent in terms of detailed instructions, but for a 2001 publication date and dealing with what is a highly visual medium, the book is full of small-sized text, and mostly tiny (somewhat grainy and sometimes blurry) 2"x3" (and smaller) grayscale photos.
Here's an overview of the table of contents, abbreviated to just the main topic headings:
-Introduction
-The Mat Cutter
-Cutting Mats (includes technique, single, double, triple, weighted, double opening, v-grooves, inlays, open grooves, offsets, insets, angled cuts)
-Mat Carving (includes finding designs, carving images, carving monograms, among other topics)
-Mat Decoration (includes conservation and decorative matting, marbled paper panels, pinwheel bevel extensions, ink lines, coloring panels, the stencil method, the resist trick, patina, the eraser trick, painted bevels)
If you are a strongly visual learner, or are hoping for full-color, inspiring examples with the instructions (like I was), this book is going to be a very frustrating read. I will keep it because the step-by-step information will get the job done and done well, but wanted others to have more information before ordering to avoid the surprise I got.
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A few years ago, when perennials were the buzz, we would have laughed at the idea of annuals being described as "cutting edge." Annuals were tacky purple petunias or globs of geraniums; maybe your Grandma liked annuals, but they weren't for modern gardens.
Now annuals are so hot they sizzle. Horticulturists introduce new colors and exciting forms so fast we grow dizzy. Old, forgotten types of annuals are being reintroduced, and many of these are noteworthy for their statuesque shapes or spectacular perfume. Annuals with Style explores this newly fashionable world of gardening with annuals, where innovation in flower and foliage keeps pace with ideas about style.
One of the greatest things about annuals is that they grow to maturity and die in one gardening season, so they are fun to play around with. A tree is a big investment of money and space, and shrubs grow for years, but annuals require no such commitment of time, room, or resources. You can experiment, experience near-instant gratification, toss them out at the end of the season, and try something new next year.
Mike Ruggiero and Thomas Christopher capture the essence of garden creativity as they advise on how best to use the many kinds of annuals now widely available. Have you seen the new variegated impatiens? How about coleus leaves so boldly splashed with color that they look as though variegation was invented just for them? Scale, texture, form, and color are all considered when using annuals in pots, hanging baskets, or in the ground. Practicalities such as starting from seed, soil preparation, mulching, watering, pinching, and fertilizing are thoroughly discussed and an encyclopedia of essential annuals provides the basics as well as plentiful color photographs. --Valerie Easton
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After years of playing second fiddle to perennials, annuals are now back in style and extremely popular with top garden designers. In Annuals with Style, noted gardening experts Michael Ruggiero and Tom Christopher have created an inspirational design book that features new ways to use these versatile, colorful, and inexpensive plants. Included are complete profiles and growing tips.
Customer Reviews:
Annuals Will Feed Your Gardening Creativity!.......2002-03-18
Where perennials and shrubs provide static and permanent elements in your garden, annuals are a fluid element that you can change from year to year. This book gives you all the backround you need to get started with an attractive Annual garden.
It is divided into three parts: garden design; making them grow; and an illustrated guide to many common annuals. The design section details the process of selecting plants, not only for color, but compatability with their location and neighboring plants. The second section will help cure your "brown thumb" if you have difficulty keeping things alive. You will learn how to properly feed and water your plants. The last section has color photos and great detail about each plant presented; Latin name, sowing, growing and care are here.
This book is not only useful for researching and designing your garden, it is beautifully illustrated with rich color photographs throughout. There are also some color diagrams where appropriate.
Write your name in this book and chain it to your coffee table. After seeing your results the first season, the neighbors may be tempted to carry it off for their own use!
Truly lovely and informative book.......2001-10-18
You may not look at annuals the same way again after reading this excellent book. It is full of ideas on how to use them in your garden and should offer any gardener bored with those boring old marigolds some inspiration! You can tell that the authors are passionate about their subject but the photographs alone could make this a book worth purchasing. Simply magnificient photography! A beautiful book and one of the best I have ever seen on annuals.
A good Resource for planting ANNUALS.......2001-07-23
I must admit - I do not love annuals- Having said that much to preface my comments- For me this is the only book I need on this subject! It covers planning, planting and maintenence.
The planning section seems especially helpful and will be a tremendous help in achieving a finished product that fits a desired look. The color planning seems very well addressed with particular attention the area to be planted in formulation the design elements (suggested on graph paper).
The writer seems to love annuals and it shows! The photography is beautiful. This would make a nice housewarming gift!
This is one of the best gardening books I have read!.......2000-10-09
This book is not just about annuals, though it is definitely the best book about annuals. There are so many great design ideas in this book, including using annuals in a "mixed border," (perennial garden). There is an excellent section on container gardening with lots of professional tips. Some of the topics are just excellent: "using color," "harmony and contrast," "color and variegated foliage," etc. This is the only book I have read that deals with design issues in such a clear and creative way. Anyone can make a beautiful garden after reading these great design tips.
The section on propagation is also excellent. Growing from seed and making cuttings are covered in every detail with great step by step pictures. There is also a step by step formula to determine how many plants you need for an area.
The last section of the book is an alphabetical listing of each annual, listing its use, culture, and professional tips. You will find out the best and newest varieties here. The writing is filled with the enthusiasm of these authors. There is so much good information in this book, I wish every gardener would read it, including the people who think they just like perennials!
A Book with Passion.......2000-08-07
There are literally hundreds of books on various types of plants (perennials, annuals, trees, ...), not to mention an endless array of books on garden design. So, how does one begin to differentiate the great ones from the okay ones?
One of my litmus tests for a really great gardening book is whether or not it motivates me to try something new. Michael Riggerio and Tom Christoper's Annuals With Style not only motivated me to get planters for my deck, but converted me from an annual atheist to a devote believer in the power of annuals to make the ordinary garden extraordinary.
I'd expect nothing less from a book Michael Riggerio co-authored. Having worked at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) since the age of 14, he is now NYBG's Head Curator. He also teaches an array of courses at NYBG's School of Professional Horticulture. While few horticulturist's resume come close to his, the secret of his book and his own professional success lies in one word, which I have heard used over and over again to describe this remarkable individual. That word is "passion".
Michael Riggerio's passion for plants is manifested through out Annuals With Style. The book has hundreds of beautiful pictures, most of which he took throughout his career. (He never goes anywhere without his camera. You never know when you will see an interesting plant!) It also gives the reader practical, clear instructions on how to lay out a bed or border, as well as how to calculate the number of plants needed to make the most intricate designs. (Following the book's guidance, I designed a giant clock made out of annual flowers, just like the one I saw in Europe many years ago!) The plant descriptions go way beyond the basic growing zones, size, shape, color and required sun light. Detailed oriented individuals and horticulturists will appreciate the extra tid-bits of information, such as each plant's family and origins.
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