Ortho's All about the Easiest Flowers to GrowBask in the beauty of flowers so durable, pest-resistant, and long-blooming that they can even be used as fuss-free landscape plants! With friendly language, colourful photographs, and clear diagrams, this book shows how to choose, combine and grow more than 100 top-rated flowers that guarantee trouble-free gardening. Complete growing instructions for the 100 easiest flowers; 16 weekend plans to decorate your yard with carefree colour; Friendly advice and labour-saving tips that guarantee success. |
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12 inches annual aster astilbe Autumn Joy beds and borders bee balm bicolored black-eyed Susan blooms blue flowers bright bulbs butterfly bush clumps color compost coral bells Creeping zinnia cultivars CULTURE cut flower daffodils dark daylilies Deadhead drought drought-tolerant dwarf early spring early summer Easy Flowers fall feet high feet tall fertile flower garden flower spikes foliage fragrant fringed bleeding heart frost green ground cover grows hardy hummingbirds Hyacinth bean Hybrids hydrangea inches high inches tall inches wide Joe-Pye weed late spring late summer lavender leaves marigold massed meadow rue moist moss rose mound mulch native orange organic matter partial shade Perennial Zones 3-9 pincushion flower pink flowers poppy pots Prune purple coneflower RECOMMENDED VARIETIES rock gardens roots rose Sea lavender season sedum self-sows Shasta daisy shrub spread stems strawflowers summersweet sun to partial sunflower tender perennial trees vine well-drained soil white flowers winter yellow flowers zinnia