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A comprehensive coverage of anything and everything you might want to know about growing bulbs: · 20 outstanding bulbs are featured in detail: Alliums, Anemones, Begonias, Calla Lilies, Chionodoxas, Colchicums, Crocuses, Dahlias, Elephant Ears, Eranthis, Fritillaries, Galanthus, Gladioli, Hyacinths, Irises, Muscari, Daffodils, Squills, Hybrid Tulips and Species Tulips · Each account covers the bulb's type, planting season, best planting method and optimal conditions, blooming season, hardiness and favored varieties · An extensive introduction covers the science and history of bulbs, how to shop for bulbs, basic rules of planting, nutrition, diseases and pests, overwintering, use of bulbs in garden design and creating arrangements with cutflowers · A section called For the Adventurous features bulb varieties that are notably exotic, require special care or are strictly for indoor use · The appendix has information on how to force bulbs to flower and how to naturalize bulbs.

Whether you have a green thumb or not, you've likely asked yourself just what would grow in one challenging location or another. This book provides concise answers by presenting a descriptive listing of the very best plants available on the market today for a better yard. For the expert or novice gardener, this is sound advice. This title introduces the concept of growing plants for a purpose, whether it's to provide privacy in a tiny yard or placing the right plant in a particular spot where nothing seems to grow. This is the first in a three part series.

In the first, bestselling volume of the What Grows Here? Series, Jim Hole offered practical answers to gardening's most important questions. Now, Jim turns his attention to problems, answering questions both mundane and bizarre, solving the most perplexing gardening dilemmas and describing today's best plant varieties, plants you can count on to tackle the garden's toughest challenges while providing peerless beauty. With over 400 full colour photographs, tips from other successful gardeners, and advice from one of Canada's most accomplished gardening professional, What Grows Here? Volume 2: Problems is a must-own volume for today's gardener.

In the first two volumes of the bestselling What Grows Here? series, Jim Hole tackled locations and problems, providing great plant choices for a multitude of gardening situations. In this third volume, Solutions Jim introduces the reader to the owners of thirteen gardens in different stages of development, and discusses the real life problems each faces, while continuing to offer more of the same expert advice on selecting the best plant for specific locations and conditions. Jim also takes the reader into the yards of innovative gardeners who have creatively and successfully met a variety of gardening challenges. He reviews and discusses their solutions and plant choices, and offers his own possible alternatives in his usual friendly and informative manner. Whether answering questions that owners of new yards have or those of gardeners with established landscapes, Jim Hole opens gardener's eyes to the many possibilities that today's best plant varieties offer. Accompanied by award winning photographer, Akemi Matsubuchi's beautiful images, Jim illustrates how to truly make a landscape your own, all while following his personal philosophy: Enjoy Gardening