May 7th, 2010
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
Price: $11.72
- ISBN13: 9781603421393
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
Product Description
The gardener’s fantasy of colorful blooms that begin in early spring and continue through the last glow of fall is now an achievable reality. With a little careful planning and the fun-to-use formulas in The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden, season-spanning spectacular color is more attainable than ever before.
Author Lee Schneller developed her blueprint system when she began designing gardens professionally, and she has successfully applied it to more than 150 gardens. Now she brings her proven system to gardeners everywhere who continue to chase that elusive dream of perpetual bloom.
Schneller’s system is a wonder of organization and information – packed with checklists and questionnaires, planning equations and plant characteristics. Yet for all its wealth of information, gardeners of every level will find Schneller’s techniques simple to use and her blueprints fun to customize. Readers choose from a list of 220 low-maintenance plants organized by bloom month and supported by a Flower Catalog with basic growing information and photos of all 220 plants.
By following five simple steps, readers develop a unique garden design featuring personally chosen plants that deliver height, color, and tons of blooms all season long. For added convenience, the completed planning chart also serves as a plant shopping list.
Once the blueprint has been created, Schneller helps readers put the plan to work, offering advice on shopping, planting, and finally, enjoying and maintaining the garden.
Praise for the book:
“The book lives up to its title: It is a blueprint for continuous color in the garden (at least from early spring to fall). There is instruction on mapping it all out on a grid — and also instructions for those who don’t want to put pen to paper. Don’t be daunted; I’m not a mathematical person, but it makes sense to me. Lee Schneller, who has designed and built more than 150 gardens in Maine since 1995, takes you through the five steps to continuous color, including grabbing graph paper and a pen and checking out the plant palette and flower catalog in the back of the book. I particularly liked the flower catalog, which lists more than 200 trusty perennials selected for, among other things, their hardiness, attractive flowers and foliage, and long bloom time. The flower catalog provides the bloom period of each in a useful, graphical way. My only wish is that Schneller would publish a follow-up flower catalog for those who want more.” -Ann Robinson, www.oregonlive.com 05/06/09
“If you, like me, love color in the garden, both for admiring and cutting, you’ll pick up The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden. The book lives up to its title: it IS a blue print for continuous color in the garden.” – New York Newsday
“The book is divided into five parts, which follow a logical path to allow any homeowner with some basic growing skills to create an attractive continuously blooming flower garden.”
– Portland Press Herald, 7/14/08
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
Gift for my husband. It has very good ideas on the how tos of a beautiful garden
Star Rating: 5 / 5
this book gives complete information on sun requirements, height, bloom times,
and grow zones. Also gives colors of the bloom. It also gives info as to the
pluses and minuses of the specific plant.
It gives a complete list of plants that will grow in sun or shade. Also a
list of good plants to grow and plants that will have problems.
Star Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best ever gardening book I have read. Very easy to understand and very useful. It’s a good reference book to keep.
Star Rating: 5 / 5
Once I started to research desiging a perrenial garden design, I was overwhelmed by all of the books and reference materials needed to get started. Lee’s book put an end to my frustations within the first 15 pages with a logical step-bystep approach. Very Useful!!!
Star Rating: 5 / 5
I picked this book because of the great reviews, and it did have some good information and plant combination ideas that I hadn’t previously seen, but I was hoping for more inspirational photos of plant combination blueprints that I could copy. This book seemed more for the professional garden designer who needs to graph plant types and quantities in a systematic way. A lot of the book was plant information which I could get from my Western Garden book.
Star Rating: 3 / 5