Flower Gardening for Beginners: A Guide to Growing and Maintaining a Cut-Flower Garden [B1271]

2022 PB in excellent condition. From Pacific Northwest gardener and co-owner of Capital Blooms, a 1,67 sq ft micro flower farm. Learn how to grow and arrange your own beautiful flowers! With the right guidance and a little practice, you can grow a cut-flower garden from seed and brighten every room in your home with fresh blooms. Flower Gardening for Beginners has all the information you'll need to plan, cultivate, tend, harvest, and arrange home-grown flowers--no experience required. Flower gardening fundamentals--Lay the foundation for success as you learn common gardening terms, essential tools to have on hand, and answers to frequently asked questions. A guide to planning your plot--Understand your local climate so you can choose the best spot in your yard for your garden and select seeds that will thrive. Get to know your flowers--Discover detailed profiles that explain how to start 35 different flowers from seed, harvest them, and dry them--so you can grow your favorites year after year! Create breathtaking bouquets from your own home-grown blooms with this beginner-friendly guide to growing flowers.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Most of this book is just common sense for any gardener, but it is written so clearly and simply that it was a real benefit to me. The rest of the book was a reference to specific flowers and their various issues. I was especially glad to learn that some flowers could be poisonous to pets. Knowing that would help me to choose which flowers to grow and where."; "This is an easy guide for those interested in growing flowers in their garden. The author goes through the garden prep process and includes profiles for common garden flowers."; "Good guide for a beginner like me. There is a lot of wonderful information. Makes first-time flower gardening so much less intimidating. The illustrations are beautiful and the directions are clear."