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This guide suits garden enthusiasts and beginners keen to cultivate pelargoniums both indoors and outdoors. Its clear instructions and comprehensive variety directory make it ideal for hobbyists seeking to enhance their garden displays with colourful, fragrant flowering plants.
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See morePelargoniums are renowned for their vibrant flowers, pretty leaves and rich aromatic scent. This book takes you through the simple techniques of growing and propagating these decorative plants, and illustrates the most popular cultivars. Everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and magnificently illustrated practical guide.
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This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 170 beautiful photographs.
Features: everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and magnificently illustrated practical guide; full photographic directory of over 50 varieties, including single zonal, double zonal, dwarf zonal, rosebud zonal, regal, angel, decorative, scented leaf and stellar; step-by-step guidance on planting, propagating and growing pelargoniums, and controlling pests and diseases; tips for growing and displaying pelargoniums outside and indoors, in beds, hanging baskets and window boxes; for each variety, full botanical information is provided on history, growth, hue, height, spread and suitability; and a highly accessible guide to some of the most popular flowering plants, celebrating their diversity and beauty.
Pelargoniums are one of the most cherished groups of garden plants. They are particularly renowned for the impact of their vibrant flowers, their pretty leaves and rich aromatic scent, and they thrive both outdoors and inside.
Pelargoniums guides you through the simple techniques involved in growing and propagating these decorative plants, and illustrates some of the most popular cultivars. It includes a history of pelargoniums, with advice on how to recognize the different types.
A fully illustrated plant directory describes over 40 recommended varieties, together with expert advice on selecting the best ones, planting them in beds and hanging baskets, and dealing with pests and diseases. The book will help you to create pretty displays indoors, in conservatories, on windowsills or as outdoor plants.
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ISBN: 9781780192734
Publisher: Anness Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 November 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Southwater
Illustration: over 170 photographs
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 64
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Blaise Cooke has worked as a garden advisor and horticulturist for many years. She was trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England, and has considerable experience working at nurseries and botanic gardens in both Europe and the tropics. She has written or contributed to many gardening books.
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