This guide tells how to choose plants depending on your soil, site location, and what climate zone you live in. The care needed and even how to arrange your flowers is included.

A color encyclopedia of garden annuals.

Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous garden Shade is one of the most common garden situations homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can triumph over challenging areas and learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Glorious Shade celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares the techniques, design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

A practical guide for the dedicated home gardener with descriptions and assessments of 245 genera of true annuals as well as plants that behave like annuals in USDA zones 1 7."

A comprehensive, richly illustrated reference on how to grow plants from seed provides everything a gardener needs to know about germinating, growing, and cultivating more than five hundred different types of flowering plants, furnishing essential information on light, soil, spacing requirements, climate, general plant care, and propagation, with quick-reference charts covering more than one thousand species. Original.

This book is a must for successful gardening with annuals and perennials, with important information for identifying, growing and maintaining 200 of the best loved of these flowers in the United States. Carefully organized for easy reference and practical use, the book presents each entry in full color, giving specific information for height, color, location and soil requirements, together with helpful hints for propagating, displaying, transplanting and more. Every flower -- from the Sweet Alyssum to the Giant Zinnia in the annuals group, from the fragrant Daphne to the exotic Monkshood in the perennials group -- is treated with the same explicit detail and informative illustrations that have made the earlier Woman's Day plant books the most popular and useful gudies for the novice and expert gardener alike. Whether used as a guide for growing your favorite blooms in a small patch of earth, for creating a beautiful garden to enhance more extensive grounds, or for making a "cutting garden" for fresh or dried flowers for your home, this book will become an essential part of any gardener's library.