Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide: How to Combine Shape, Color and Texture to Create the Garden of Your Dreams

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This fresh, mix-and-match approach to creating a glorious flower garden focuses on the importance of shape, colour, and ease of cultivation. TheUltimate Flower Gardener's Guide gives home gardeners the confidence they need to create the flower-filled garden of their dreams. Jenny Rose Carey proposes a holistic approach to flower gardening with a refreshing twist. Instead of concentrating primarily on colour, it brings flower shape and texture to the fore, helping homeowners make plant choices that come together in an aesthetically pleasing way. The featured plants include both perennials and annuals, and all have been chosen for their ease of care, attractiveness to pollinators, and environmental friendliness. Carey also shares information on planning for year-round colour and design strategies for a range of spaces. The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is a complete road map to a successful and satisfying flower-focused garden. 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. 592 colour photographs

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"A thorough approach to landscaping. A wrap-up section showcases inspirational layouts and provides practical suggestions for starting...A detailed and handy reference." --Booklist

"Expertise and artistry are in full bloom in this outstanding floral masterclass from historian Carey...Encyclopedic knowledge and a fantastic eye for detail make this a must-read for gardeners of all levels." --Publishers Weekly

"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 Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is a master class on flower gardening. It is like my favorite cookbooks: chatty, inspiring, informative, and packed with luscious, mouth-watering photographs. A must for every flower gardener."--Marta McDowell, author of Unearthing the Secret Garden

"Jenny's infectious love of flowers radiates out from this beautiful how-to guide to turning your flower garden dream into reality. Whatever your skill level, this book offers new learning and delight." --Matt Rader, President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

"Whether your garden is sunny or shady, wet or dry, The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide will inspire you to get planting." --R William Thomas, Executive Director of Chanticleer Garden

"All the information you will need to prepare, plan, finally plant, and maintain the plants in your garden."--Commonweeder

"Carey's writing style is wonderful, and the pictures are good enough that this would be a coffee table book...in short, get this book."--The Washington Gardner

"From bloom shape to colour and more, this book gives you the knowledge to design your flower borders for maximum effect." --The Garden, RHS

"Amazingly helpful for every gardener...[it] gives you all the information you will need to prepare, plan, finally plant, and maintain the plants in your garden."--Commonweeder

Author Bio

Jenny Rose Carey is a renowned gardener, educator, historian, and author, and the 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 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 shade garden, moss garden, and a stumpery. Jenny Rose and her gardens have been featured on the PBS series The Victory Garden, in the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and more.