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The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide

How to Combine Shape, Color, and Texture to Create the Garden of Your Dreams
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The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide by Jenny Rose Carey is a friendly, information-packed book offering practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to create a thriving, flower-packed garden. It guides readers on how to start, combine plants for spectacular effects, and maintain their gardens year after year with advice tailored to various gardening goals, including supporting pollinators.
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This book is ideal for garden enthusiasts, from beginners keen to learn the basics to experienced gardeners seeking new ideas and inspiration to enhance their flower gardens.

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This fresh, mix-and-match approach to creating a glorious flower garden focuses on the importance of shape, color, and ease of cultivation.

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Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams.

Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden

The colours, shapes, and scents of flowers are as ravishing to the senses as to the soul. But it's all too easy to get things wrong: colours that clash, flowers that bloom at the wrong time, plants that fail to thrive. Enter The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide by expert gardener Jenny Rose Carey. She tells you exactly how to get started, how to combine plants for the most spectacular effects, and how to keep your garden going from year to year.

Whether you’re interested in dramatic colour combinations, how best to use a favourite flower, or how to create a garden for a specific purpose, such as nourishing pollinators, you’ll find the answers in this friendly, information-packed book. As Jenny herself says, “Don’t be afraid; just have a go!”

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"A detailed and handy reference" praised by Booklist, this book delivers both expertise and artistry, with Publishers Weekly highlighting its encyclopedic knowledge and detailed instruction. Greg Loades calls it "full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration," while Marta McDowell describes it as "chatty, inspiring, informative, and packed with luscious, mouth-watering photographs." Matt Rader notes Jenny's infectious love of flowers shines throughout, making it valuable for gardeners of all skill levels.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643260389

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 592 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 1120g

Pages: 364

About the Author

Jenny Rose Carey is a renowned gardener, educator, historian, and author, and the former senior director at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society s Meadowbrook Farm in Jenkintown. She previously worked at Temple University for over a decade, first as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and then as director of the Ambler Arboretum. Jenny Rose has been lecturing nationally and internationally for many years. She is an avid hands-on gardener who has gardened in both England and the United States. Her Victorian property, Northview, contains diverse garden spaces, including a cutting garden, an herb garden, a dry garden, and various mixed flower beds. Jenny Rose and her gardens have been featured on the PBS series The Victory Garden, in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Grow magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gardener.

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