Product Description

With detailed descriptions, stunning photographs, and essential advice, noted garden experts Willliams C. Welch and Neil G. Odenwald invite you to join the rich Southern tradition of growing and sharing cut flowers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #926720 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

From Library Journal
Odenwald (landscape architecture, Louisiana State Univ.) and Welch (horticulture, Texas A&M) are well qualified to write about growing flowers for cutting and sharing in the South. The greatest part of their book is a catalog of plants, arranged by plant type and illustrated with photographs, that can be grown in the South and used in fresh and dried arrangements. In addition, the book contains chapters on marketing flowers, conditioning cut flowers, and the Southern tradition of sharing flowers from one's own garden in church, in hospitals and sickrooms, and at funerals. The authors emphasize the uses of flowers and other plant parts in arrangements, not plant cultivation per se. An excellent choice for libraries serving Southern gardeners.
-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The authors begin with an essay explaining the influence English and European gardens had on gardening in the U.S., and they briefly describe what is meant by the "southern tradition" of growing and sharing flowers. The book is then divided into chapters dealing with annuals, perennials, and flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers. A multitude of plants are listed, and each entry offers data on its Latin and English names, its size, and optimum growing conditions. Planting instructions are included. One chapter contains a list of ferns, ornamental grasses, and palms fit for cutting, and another lists plants that display attractive fruits. There also are tips on extending the life of cut flowers and on marketing them. George Cohen

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, lavishly illustrated compendium.
The Bountiful Flower Garden is a beautiful, lavishly illustrated compendium for growing and showcasing cut flowers from the southern garden. Beginning with the influences of the European, Asian and American heritages. The Bountiful Flower Garden reveals how to extend the life of cut flowers in order to bring their beauty indoors. It details when, how and where to cut, as well as when and how to employ chemical extenders. The Bountiful Flower Garden offers the reader invaluable information on other plants effective in cut-flower arranging. The Bountiful Flower Garden is enhanced with lists, essays, and step-by-step instructions regarding trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, foliage plants, and berry/fruit plants. The Bountiful Flower Garden is the definitive guide and a wonderful book for family gardeners and interior designers to simply browse through in search of ideas and possibilities for enriching the atmosphere and decor of homes and offices.

unbelievable
I've given away most of my gardening books-from lack of interest. Checked this one out from the library and must buy it so that I may underline. Mr. Welch GETS IT. He knows we want beauty in our lives, but we can't babysit picky plants that when they succeed, we're too proud of them to cut!. Here is the definitave word on how to grow inexpensive masses of color from seed and how to preserve cut flowers in the vase. Quite a few of his plant suggestions were new to me for my zone--This book gives me information for the exact reason I raise flowers, to play with them!