THE UPDATED FLOWER GARDENING BIBLE FOR BEGINNERS

Learn how to grow and arrange your own beautiful flowers!

Get garden-tested guidance for beautiful blooms with this comprehensive, practical, and gorgeously illustrated study of the art of growing 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 Bible 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.
• Basic growing methods, including how to start seeds, soil, sowing, hardening off, transplanting, and growing on.

• 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!
• Advice for growing a wide range of different flowers, organized by blooming season, including annuals from seed, summer bulbs, vines such as wisteria, and even blooming shrubs like lilacs.
• In-depth profiles for a selection of flowers that include more-detailed growing techniques along with their histories and varieties.
• Pro tips, including how to grow challenging annual poppies and biennials from seed and forcing flowers for winter blooms.
Create breathtaking bouquets from your own home-grown blooms with this beginner-friendly guide to growing flowers.

Whether you’re interested in raising a small cut-flower garden, enhancing your flower border or containers, or just admiring the beauty of flowers, SARAH PRESS has it covered.