This full-color guide from the experts at Burpee shows you how to plan, plant, and maintain a beautiful flower garden using an environmentally responsible, organic approach. It offers authoritative guidance on creating borders and beds, combining flower colors and shapes, selecting gardening tools, and much more, and features encyclopedic Plant Portraits section with profiles of more than 175 flowers—annuals, perennials, and bulbs.

Whether you're a dedicated green thumb or a novice, the comprehensive information and down-to-earth advice in Fantastic Flowers will help you garden without growing pains. The first part, Cutting Gardens, leads through the process of planting, growing, and harvesting materials for a variety of flower arrangements. More than 130 shrubs, with a discussion of designing with flowering shrubs, are included in the Flowering Shrubs section. Finally, Ornamental Trees shows you how to add interest and elegance to your property by planting tress for shade, seasonal color, and their flowers and berries.

Mary Weaver provides 75 plant portraits--descriptions of the more carefree roses commercially available--and quick-reference lists of roses for special garden conditions. 75 color photos.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Presents a guide to creating a garden in such unused spaces as land beside a driveway, next to steps, or between the sidewalk and the street curb, discussing how to prepare the soil and listing the varieties of plants suitable for these conditions.