Product Description

With over 1000 colour photographs and more than 2000 plants listed, Botanica’s Pocket Annuals & Perennials is sure to find an important place in your gardening library.

This outstanding guide will help you find new and exciting ways to bring colour to your garden. It features a wealth of information,including:

- bedding plants for borders
- different species of fragrant plants
- plants suitable for growing on the coast
- plants that do well in shady areas
- soil preparation
- landscaping
- aftercare

If trees and shrubs provide the structure of a garden,then annuals and perennials provide the rich tapestry that inspires from season to season. With this guide, you can help to transform your garden into a dazzling place filled with colour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3264465 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1008 pages

Customer Reviews

Delightful Pictures and Excellent Information
Botanica's books have always had great pictures and information, but in the past the books have been more for professionals than the average gardener. This book is great for the average gardener and the professional as well.

One excellent feature of the book is that the authors know what gardeners are buying, and these items are all in this book. I checked for many of these relatively new items, like Osteospermum (from South Africa), the new varieties of Polemonium and Heuchera with interesting foliage, scaevola (from Australia).

The descriptions in the book begin with the place of origin for each genus, which is very helpful to understanding how to grow the plant, followed by excellent cultural information, including division and propagation. Also, the hardiness zone is very easy to find for each cultivar. You won't have to get all excited about a perennial only to find that it is not hardy in your area. Each hardiness zone is listed at the bottom of the description.

And of course, the pictures are wonderful. The major groups of perennials and annuals are very well represented. For example there are 7 pages of peonies, 10 pages of dianthus, many pages of day lilies, etc. There is also a reference table and a good index.

This is a very worthwhile book to own, and very complete.

If you buy only one gardening book...let it be this one!
For the beginning gardener, it's a godsend. For the experienced gardener, it's a necessary tool. Because this book not only gives you the general low-down on run-of-the-mill garden annuals and perennials, it's also chock full of COLOR photos of the flowers and all kinds of variations within the species. If you have a flower in your garden and you're itching to identify it, or you don't know how to care for it, chances are, you'll find it here. If you can find it anywhere, this is the place. A great gift also for anyone starting a new garden. BUY THIS BOOK. You'll be happy, you did.

Botanica's Annuals & Perennials : Over 1000 Pages & over 200
Amazing images. Most flower guides I've looked at have drawings or poor quality images. The photographs in this book are really clear and detailed enough to really be able to identify and learn about the flowers. Highly recommend.