Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens: Step-By-Step and Seasonal Plans for a Colorful, Exciting Landscape

by Laurence Sombke

The key to truly beautiful and truly easy flower gardens, this book gives detailed season-by-season directions for creating and maintaining colorful, exciting landscapes and special gardens such as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875967000
• ISBN13: 9780875967004
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens

This host of "the Natural Garden" on Northeast Public Radio has developed a low-maintenance approach to gardening that allows him to have a beautiful garden with interesting plants - and time for his family too.This easy-to-read book starts with the very basics of gardening - the site, the soil and the tools a new gardener will need and then guides the reader in developing gardens for a wide range of sites. He explains how to design a garden, choose annuals and perennials for the site and each season, and then how to maintain that garden through the year. There are good source lists and a useful reference section.The writer has a direct approach that is readable and useful for the novice gardener. The book is published by Rodale - a long-established and reliable publisher of gardening books.

Just Like On the Radio

As a longtime fan of Larry Sombke's occasional stint on WAMC's "Vox Pop" program, I was thrilled to find out about his books. Just like his radio self, Sombke's prose is smooth with clear explanations and illustrations accessible even to those of us with purple thumbs...