| View Larger Image | The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color | Paperbackby Lee Schneller (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Storey Publishing, LLC | | Page Count: | 217 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 11, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 85,706th |
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The gardener's fantasy of colorful blooms that begin in early spring and continue through the last glow of fall is now an achievable reality. With a little careful planning and the fun-to-use formulas in The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden, season-spanning spectacular color is more attainable than ever before. Author Lee Schneller developed her blueprint system when she began designing gardens professionally, and she has successfully applied it to more than 150 gardens. Now she brings her proven system to gardeners everywhere who continue to chase that elusive dream of perpetual bloom. Schneller's system is a wonder of organization and information - packed with checklists and questionnaires, planning equations and plant characteristics. Yet for all its wealth of information, gardeners of every level will find Schneller's techniques simple to use and her blueprints fun to customize. Readers choose from a list of 220 low-maintenance plants organized by bloom month and supported by a Flower Catalog with basic growing information and photos of all 220 plants. By following five simple steps, readers develop a unique garden design featuring personally chosen plants that deliver height, color, and tons of blooms all season long. For added convenience, the completed planning chart also serves as a plant shopping list.Once the blueprint has been created, Schneller helps readers put the plan to work, offering advice on shopping, planting, and finally, enjoying and maintaining the garden. Praise for the book:"The book lives up to its title: It is a blueprint for continuous color in the garden (at least from early spring to fall). There is instruction on mapping it all out on a grid -- and also instructions for those who don't want to put pen to paper. Don't be daunted; I'm not a mathematical person, but it makes sense to me. Lee Schneller, who has designed and built more than 150 gardens in Maine since 1995, takes you through the five steps to continuous color, including grabbing graph paper and a pen and checking out the plant palette and flower catalog in the back of the book. I particularly liked the flower catalog, which lists more than 200 trusty perennials selected for, among other things, their hardiness, attractive flowers and foliage, and long bloom time. The flower catalog provides the bloom period of each in a useful, graphical way. My only wish is that Schneller would publish a follow-up flower catalog for those who want more." -Ann Robinson, www.oregonlive.com 05/06/09"If you, like me, love color in the garden, both for admiring and cutting, you'll pick up The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden. The book lives up to its title: it IS a blue print for continuous color in the garden." - New York Newsday"The book is divided into five parts, which follow a logical path to allow any homeowner with some basic growing skills to create an attractive continuously blooming flower garden." -- Portland Press Herald, 7/14/08 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 13 reviews)
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My saving grace by Hurly  5 Stars
September 28, 2009
As a new home owner and novice gardener, I was overwhelmed by my overgrown 1/3 acre yard. It has beautiful bones, but has not been well-tended in many, many years. I took out book after book from the library and felt nothing but frustration. Then I discovered this book. Since then, I have planted hundreds of new plants and torn apart the old weedy beds. Perhaps most exciting, the whole process was incredibly fun. This guide takes away all the angst and lets you enjoy the beauty and creativity of gardening. About 10 of my friends, novice and experienced gardeners alike, have now purchased this excellent book.
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Get's you right into planning mode from the first chapter! by fellow gardener (NC) 5 Stars
July 30, 2009
Once I started to research desiging a perrenial garden design, I was overwhelmed by all of the books and reference materials needed to get started. Lee's book put an end to my frustations within the first 15 pages with a logical step-bystep approach. Very Useful!!!
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What a book! by Loraine (Syracuse, NY) 5 Stars
July 27, 2009
This has to be one of the most informative, well thought out, and easy to understand gardening books that I have ever read. It helps you design your garden, figures the number of plants per area, shows color combinations, has worksheets with which to work, lists her all time favorite plants, gives detail descriptions of about 200 plants and helps you to achieve three seasons of both flowers and foliage by using worksheets and graphs. You can't fail as a gardener if you follow this book. It truly is an amazing book. I own many, many gardening books, and this is about as informative and easy to read (and apply the knowledge)as I've ever seen. This is a perfect gift for the new or experienced gardener.
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The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color by Ginette F. Hebert (Massachusetts, USA) 5 Stars
July 15, 2009
This is the best ever gardening book I have read. Very easy to understand and very useful. It's a good reference book to keep.
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Most Useful garden book I own by M. Egan 5 Stars
July 13, 2009
I have gardened for many years and have bought many gorgeous (and expensive) gardening books, most which didn't prove very useful. To be honest, I didn't purchase this book at first because I didn't like the cover. But then I noticed it at our local nursery, sitting right on the counter and priced low enough to inspire an 'impulse' buy, so I did. AND I'M SO GLAD I DID because it's by far the most useful flower garden book I own!
I used this book to help me design a 6 by 26 foot perennial bed and it made the process so much more manageable than I've ever before experienced. It's concisely written, well organized and has useful photos on every page. I read every word (at least once) and followed most of the advice. I especially loved the sections called Plant Palette (which shows blooming time, color and other useful info on a wide variety of plants) and Flower Catalog (which highlights many of the author's favorite plants) The catalog is especially great if you live in coastal Maine, where the author and I both live.
I dragged this book with me to many nurseries to find the plants I'd chosen (I especially recommend Hidden Gardens in Searsport, whose prices can't be beat.) I added some larger specimens on either end of the bed to anchor the garden (a small crabapple called 'Sargeant' and an interesting small tree with curly branches that will look cool during the long Maine winters.) Actually, my only complaint with the book is that it didn't include a few such items to bring more height to a large bed.
I planted the garden in early June; 6 weeks and 15 inches of rain later, my garden is looking great. By next year, many flowers will be blooming profusely and I'll be in heaven. I really love and recommend this book!!
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