Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens: Step-by-Step and Seasonal Plans for a Colorful, Exciting Landscape - Hardcover

The key to truly beautiful and truly easy flower gardens, this book gives detailed season-by-season directions for creating and maintaining colorful, exciting landscapes and special gardens such as picket fence gardens, rock gardens, boggy gardens, and many others.

The title is not misleading. A radio host and garden designer in the Northeast, Sombke writes in engagingly conversational style and offers practical design suggestions that should prompt even the most garden-wary to try their hands at growing flowers. After a discussion of site planning and such basics as tools and composting (Sombke is a committed organic gardener; "Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt" is one chapter heading), the remaining two thirds of the abundantly illustrated book are devoted to a broad selection of garden designs with such tempting names as Peek-Through Picket Fence Flowers, Shady Woodland Wildflower Garden and An El Diablo Drought-Tolerant Garden. The designs contain complete information about what aspiring gardeners can expect from each of the plants and a four-season "chore" list outlining what is involved in caring for the new garden. Although there are certainly ideas here for the experienced gardener, the book is an excellent choice for the beginner.
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