Master Flower Gardening and Learn to Grow Flowers for All Seasons “Anyone wanting to get started with a flower garden will find plenty of expert guidance here.” ―Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller in Annual Flowers Gardening, Bulb Flower Gardening, and Perennial Gardening Master the art of cultivating cut flowers, from seed to stunning arrangements, with this indispensable guide for gardening novices and pros alike. Create botanical beauty. Niki Irving’s Growing Flowers whisks you away to the serene mountains of Asheville, NC, where her boutique flower farm thrives. Learn to grow florets and cut flowers with the same sustainable, natural practices Niki employs on her mountain-fresh farm. Boost your horticultural skills. This garden journal not only introduces you to the pleasures of growing a cutting garden but also guides you to arrange your flowers into simple-yet-gorgeous bouquets. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of flower farming and discover techniques using not just blooms and greenery, but even artichokes, vines, and berries. Inside, you'll find: Practical guidance on organic flower gardening, from selecting the right seeds and seedlings to mastering seasonal rotation Insightful techniques for arranging cut flowers Tips and tricks from Niki Irving's successful boutique flower farm for cultivating your own cutting garden Engaging photographic content that transforms the book into a delightful coffee table addition Growing Flowers is a wonderful addition to any collection of garden books. If you’re looking for gardening gifts for gardeners or enjoy flowering plant books and flower books like Floret Farms Cut Flower Garden book, Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers, or The Flower Gardener's Bible, you’ll love Niki Irving's Growing Flowers.

Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

How to PICK, PLANT, and PRESERVE your dream flower garden even if you have no experience or have failed with every other garden you have done in the past... Flower gardening dates back for centuries, and to this day millions of people create their own floral heaven each year. Some might say that it is one of the oldest hobbies known to mankind! After all, it is hard to resist the natural allure of a beautiful flower garden that you achieved with your own effort. However, there is a catch... What happens if my flowers die? What if pests attack and I cannot control it? What happens if my soil is not good for my plants? There are dozens of questions that beginner gardeners face each year. Whether you have purchased a new property, or inherited an old garden, you are faced with many issues that you may have never encountered before! It can be extremely overwhelming for newbies and master gardeners alike. Unfortunately, information on exactly how to start your own flower garden step-by-step can be hard to find. Trying to get all of your questions answered can take time, and you risk ruining your garden before finding the answers, which could discourage you from gardening at all. That is where Flower Gardening For Beginners steps in to give you a helping hand. Instead of stumbling around in the dark, this simple guide will shed light on all of your unanswered questions! Imagine how easy it will be to set up your flower garden with a step-by-step guide teaching you all along the way. Flower Gardening For Beginners is like having a personal gardening coach helping you out when you encounter an issue, and celebrating with you when you have success! In this guide, you will discover: Our super simple 3-step system that guarantees your success as a gardener. How to avoid the mistakes that 99% of beginner gardeners make when planting from seed. The key to designing a beautiful landscape that makes you happy, and impresses your friends! A free bonus copy of The Ultimate Gardener's Tool Guide. The right way to expand your garden without ruining your curb appeal. How to fend off wildlife and pests in a natural and environmentally safe way! Exactly how you should select your plant family that will be by your side for years to come. The best transplanting techniques that don't get enough attention from new gardeners, but are freakishly simple! At this point you are probably ready to go, but you might still be thinking, "Can I really do this?" First of all, this thought in your head is totally understandable. Maybe you have tried flower gardening in the past, or maybe it just intimidates you too much for you to even begin. But now you have a special super power... this personal guide! Once you are equipped with all the necessary knowledge to not only create a beautiful flower garden, but maintain it as well, you will be on top of the world! Confidence is key, and this guide is your key to confidence... Using the teachings in this book, you can be confident in; picking the right flowers for you, designing your garden properly, transplanting and growing from seed in effective ways, and much much more! If you are ready to take the next step and create the peaceful garden oasis that you have always dreamed of then scroll up and click the "BUY NOW" button. Begin your journey today!

Discover how to grow without a garden and reconnect with nature as you create an abundant flower meadow from your windowsill. The Flower Garden is a beautifully illustrated guide to show you how to start growing stunning blooms even in the smallest of spaces. Covering all the basics from growing from seed, how to maximise your space to understanding your light and drying flowers; this book is an essential reference to those with an urban space and who are itching to get planting. Packed with 'recipes' for the best flowers to grow throughout the year – you will soon have a balcony or roof terrace covered in enviable blooms to admire, pick or share. This neat, easy-to-use format is aimed at gardening beginners, looking to grow their own flower garden.

Experts Clare Foster and Sabina Rüber share their gardening wisdom in this how to garden guide. Growing flowers from seed is an easy and cheap way to enhance borders and bring instant colour to tired gardens. Use this step-by-step guide to grow beautiful blooms and bouquets to brighten your home, all within a single growing season. Author Clare Foster and photographer Sabina Rüber have been experimenting with growing flowers from seed for several years. In this book they pass on that invaluable experience, explaining how and when to sow and grow a huge range of flowers from Aquilegia to Zinnia.

Get garden-tested guidance for beautiful blooms with this comprehensive, practical, and gorgeously illustrated study of the art of growing flowers. In Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening, author Matt Mattus offers expert tips on growing both annuals and biennials (including native and heirloom species) based on his decades of first-hand experience in his own garden and greenhouse, made popular on his blog Growing with Plants. Accompanied by lush photography, every variety or species presented includes detailed information and tips that go beyond the very basic information typically available on the seed packet or a nursery tag. You’ll discover: Basic growing methods, including how to start seeds, soil, sowing, hardening off, transplanting, and growing on. Advice for growing a wide range of different flowers, organized by blooming season, including annuals from seed, summer bulbs, vines such as wisteria, and even blooming shrubs like lilacs. In-depth profiles for a selection of flowers that include more-detailed growing techniques along with their histories and varieties. Pro tips, including how to grow challenging annual poppies and biennials from seed and forcing flowers for winter blooms. Just a small selection of the flowers covered: heirloom and exhibition chrysanthemums, larkspurs and annual poppies, delphiniums, peonies, lilacs, and wisteria. Bulbs include spring and summer bulbs such as anemone, ranunculus, tulips, lilies, gladiolus, and cut flower dahlias, while winter indoor bulbs cover every aspect of forcing bulbs indoors like narcissus, amaryllis, South African bulbs—and even how to force Lily of the Valley. Whether you’re interested in raising a small cut-flower garden, enhancing your flower border or containers, or just admiring the beauty of flowers, Mattus has it covered.

Provides information on planning, designing, planting, and caring for flower gardens; contains plans for gardens in a variety of styles; features an encyclopedia of over 450 perennials, annuals, bulbs, roses, ornamental grasses, and ferns; and includes advice from gardeners across the country.