The Best Flowers to Grow and Cut
By David Joyce
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Online price: £7.50
This title is currently availableRRP: £25.00 You save £17.50 (70% discount) Hardback, 176pp Published: 1st September 2004 Category: Gardening - plants  |
Flower arranger or ardent gardener, this book may persuade you to broaden your horizons - Gardens Monthly
Connoisseurial guide to the qualities of flowers, arranged by theme, such as 'chequers and veins' or 'collars and ruffs' - Daily Telegraph
An easy guide on what to grow for perfume, colour or distinctive shapes for use in cut-flower arrangements ... This beautiful book shows you a new way to look at the flowers in your garden - Garden Answers
David Joyce's innovative grouping of his chosen plants, according to well-defined ornamental characteristics, ensures that the book is an easy-to-follow guide for the gardener or the flower arranger - Ireland's Homes, Interiors and Living Magazine
Distinguished plantsman and gardening writer David Joyce makes his choice of the best flowers – beautiful, distinctive and easy to cultivate – for the garden and for arrangements. 250 first-choice plants, all illustrated and over a thousand plants in all are described together with growing instructions and advice on how to make original and striking displays in the garden and the house throughout the year. The information is suitable for all sizes and styles of garden, and all gardeners, whether experienced or novice. It also highlights flowers that are suitable for cutting and suggests how best to use the garden as a source of material for the house, featuring striking close-up photography illustrating the unique characteristics of flower features.
176 pages
250 colour photographs
