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Backyard bouquets : growing great flowers for simple arrangements / by Georgeanne Brennan ; photography by Kathryn Kleinman ; flower styling by Ethel Brennan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, ©1998.Description: 144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm pages cmISBN:
  • 0811814130
  • 9780811814133
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Backyard bouquets.LOC classification:
  • SB405 .B84 1998
Other classification:
  • J535.1
Online resources:
Contents:
[1.] In the garden. Location -- Soil -- Preparation -- Direct seeding -- Starting -- Seeds indoors -- Transplanting seedlings -- Watering -- Fertilizing -- Pests and diseases -- Growing in containers -- [2.] Disks and domes. Sunflower -- Zinnia -- Cosmos -- Coreopsis -- Pincushion flower -- [3.] Airy fillers. Queen Anne's lace and bishop's flower -- Bachelor's button -- Nigella -- Sweet sultan -- Blue lace flower -- Cleome -- [4.] Tamed from the wild. Lupine and poppy -- [5.] Graceful vines. Sweet pea and nasturtium -- [6.] Stately stems. Dahlia and iris -- [7.] Artful forms. Tulip daffodil and ranunculus -- [8.] Simple backyard gardens. A tulip and daffodil garden -- A container garden -- A high-summer garden.
Summary: This volume contains a collection of photographs of common flowers in folksy arrangements. The text covers about 20 perennial, annual and bulb flowers and their varieties with the chapters grouped by the flower shape. The author shares her knowledge in this ABC of gardening (plants range from Alba poppies to zinnias), giving advice on planting (seeds, seedlings or bulbs), growing, harvesting, and assembling flowers in artful arrangements.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Pacific Northwest Connections Collection SB454.3.C8 B74 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800164493
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (page 141) and index.

[1.] In the garden. Location -- Soil -- Preparation -- Direct seeding -- Starting -- Seeds indoors -- Transplanting seedlings -- Watering -- Fertilizing -- Pests and diseases -- Growing in containers -- [2.] Disks and domes. Sunflower -- Zinnia -- Cosmos -- Coreopsis -- Pincushion flower -- [3.] Airy fillers. Queen Anne's lace and bishop's flower -- Bachelor's button -- Nigella -- Sweet sultan -- Blue lace flower -- Cleome -- [4.] Tamed from the wild. Lupine and poppy -- [5.] Graceful vines. Sweet pea and nasturtium -- [6.] Stately stems. Dahlia and iris -- [7.] Artful forms. Tulip daffodil and ranunculus -- [8.] Simple backyard gardens. A tulip and daffodil garden -- A container garden -- A high-summer garden.

This volume contains a collection of photographs of common flowers in folksy arrangements. The text covers about 20 perennial, annual and bulb flowers and their varieties with the chapters grouped by the flower shape. The author shares her knowledge in this ABC of gardening (plants range from Alba poppies to zinnias), giving advice on planting (seeds, seedlings or bulbs), growing, harvesting, and assembling flowers in artful arrangements.

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