Flower Gardening in the Hot Midwest: USDA ZONE 5 AND LOWER ZONE 4

By Linda Hillegass

Book Overview

The Midwest presents special challenges to the aspiring flower gardener. This title outlines the author's tried-and-true strategies for outmaneuvering the midwestern climate to cultivate a thriving garden. It offers guidance on enriching the soil, composting, planting and transplanting, watering, pinching and pruning, and combating pests.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068858
• ISBN13: 9780252068850
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Phenomenal resource for a hard climate in which to garden

This book is a great resource for gardening on the great plains. Her point that gardeners don't give enough consideration to heat stresses on plants was really thought provoking. I've bought a couple of copies of this book over the years, because it is such a great resource for gardeners dealing with a difficult climate. The in-depth discussion of individual plants is particularly good.

The ideal manual for beginning Midwest flower-gardeners

Flower Gardening In The Hot Midwest: USDA Zone 5 and Lower Zone 4 is the ideal manual for beginning and intermediate Midwest-based flower gardeners. Linda Hillegass draws upon her more than twenty years of Midwest flower gardening experience to write a practical, encouraging, "user friendly" guide covering all the basics for flower gardening in the difficult climate of the American Midwest. This is a region that extends from South Dakota and Nebraska east to Indiana and is hallmarked by searing winds, intense sun, unrelenting summer heat, as well as bitter cold in the winter and sudden shifts in temperature. Flower Gardening In The Hot Midwest offers the aspiring flower gardener effective strategies for choosing plans, preparing the soil, watering, pruning, and combating pests. There is also a gardener's chronology of how long and how frequently specific plants can be expected to bloom. Flower Gardening In The Hot Midwest is an essential reference for all gardeners and horticulturalists seeking to raise flowers in this difficult agricultural zone.