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RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers Helen Yemm

RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers By Helen Yemm

RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers by Helen Yemm


$36.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Grow Your Own Flowers covers the broadest of all gardening subjects, and annuals and perennials are the easiest and most popular flowers to grow.

RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers Summary

RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers by Helen Yemm

Grow Your Own Flowers inspires readers to embrace the multitude of beautiful flowers that can be planted in any garden to make a dramatic difference. It takes you on a journey from understanding how to grow flowers to buying, planting and choosing the best varieties from 100 different genera for their garden. Staking, propagating, overwintering and seed-collecting: all the techniques are explained and shown in step by step sequences. Readers can choose from hundreds of RHS recommended varieties. In this book we show how to grow, propagate and choose the best varieties from 100 choice genera.

About Helen Yemm

Helen Yemmis a garden writer and lecturer. She writes a weekly column for theDaily Telegraph, Thorny Problems, as well as a monthly column in the English Garden magazine, and appears regularly on BBC television, presenting Gardening from Scratch on BBC2 and the daytime series GardeningWeek. She lectures at Coton Manor Gardening School in Northamptonshire, as well as traveling around the country talking to garden societies and charities.

Table of Contents

Introduction; PREPARATION; How to grow flowers; The flower garden; Planting styles; The cutting garden; Know your plot; Preparing for planting; GROWING FLOWERS; Growing annuals; Sowing annual seed; Planting annuals; Growing perennials; Sowing and planting; Propagating perennials from division, seed, cuttings; Other techniques such as seed collecting, staking, over-wintering, cutting back, container planting; FLOWERS; Achillea (Yarrow); Aconitum (Monkshood); Actaea (Bugbane); Agapanthus (African lily); Alchemilla (Lady's mantle); Alliums; Alstroemerias; Anemones; Antirrhinum (Snap dragons); Anthemis; Aquilegia (Granny's bonnets); Asters; Astilbes; Astrantias; Begonias; Bergenias; Brunnera; Calendula (Marigolds); Campanula (Bellflower); Canna (Indian shot); Centaureas; Cerinthe; Chrysanthemums; Clematis; Convallaria (Lily-of-the-valley); Corydalis; Cosmos; Crocosmia; Dahlia; Delphinium; Dianthus; Dicentra; Dierama; Digitalis (Foxgloves); Echinacea (Coneflower); Echinops; Epimedium; Eryngium; Erysimum (Wallflowers); Euphorbia; Geranium; Geum; Helenium; Helianthus (Sunflowers); Helleborus; Hemerocallis (Daylilies); Heuchera; Hosta; Iris; Knautia; Kniphofia (Red hot pokers); Lathyrus (Sweet peas); Lavender (Lavandula); Leucanthemum; Lobelia; Lunaria (Honesty); Lupins; Macleaya; Meconopsis; Monarda (Bergamot); Nepeta (Catmint); Nicotiana (Tobacco plant); Nigella (Love-in-a-mist); Oenothera (Evening primrose); Paeonia; Papaver (Poppy); Penstemon; Persicaria; Phlomis; Phlox; Polemonium; Polygonatum; Potentilla; Primula; Pulmonaria (Lungwort); Ranunculus; Rheum; Rodgersia; Rudbeckia; Salvia (Sage); Sanguisorba; Saxifraga; Scabiosa; Sedum (Iceplant); Stachys; Tagetes (Marigold); Thalictrum; Trillium; Tropaeolum (Nasturtium); Verbascum; Verbena; Veronica; Veronicastrum; Viola; Zantedeschia; YEAR PLANNER; PROBLEM SOLVER; FLOWER LISTS; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; INDEX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Additional information

GOR003993831
9781845335366
1845335368
RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers by Helen Yemm
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Octopus Publishing Group
20110103
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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