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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

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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

GOR006476228
9781845335366
1845335368
RHS Grow Your Own: Flowers by Helen Yemm
Helen Yemm
Royal Horticultural Society Grow Your Own
Used - Like New
Hardback
Octopus Publishing Group
2011-01-03
224
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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