The Old Farmer's Almanac Flower Gardener's Handbook: Your Trusted Guide to Growing Stunning Blooms―From Planting to Cut-Bloom Preservation

by Old Farmer's Almanac

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, America’s longtime trusted gardening resource, shares with you how to grow more than 30 stunning flowers throughout the year. Gorgeous photos accompany expert guidance and inspirational ideas, providing gardeners of all experience levels with the tools for success and creative enjoyment. We all want one—a lush, lovely flower bed or pot full of colorful blooms all season long! But it’s not easy to know where to begin or how to handle certain problems along the way that challenge making our dream a reality. This is where The Flower Gardener’s Handbook comes in.  Created by The Old Farmer’s Almanac , America’s longtime trusted gardening resource, this book will take you by your garden-gloved hand and show you how to plan, plant, and care for more than 30 amazing flowers that will make you—as well as your family, friends, and neighbors—smile in absolute delight. Gorgeous photos accompany expert guidance and inspirational ideas, providing gardeners of all experience levels with the tools for success and creative enjoyment. Highlights include . . . Carefully crafted by experts, The Old Farmer’s Almanac Flower Gardener’s Handbook is the second book in a best-selling gardening series that began with the extremely popular Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (now its sixth printing!) and is followed by the newest volume, The Old Farmer’s Almanac Container Gardener’s Handbook . This second book introduces you to the large and varied world of beautiful flowers and offers inspiration and guidance on selecting, growing—and harvesting!—colorful blossoms that will brighten your home and life. An easy-to-use, informative, and enjoyable resource for gardeners of all experience levels!

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2022

About the author

America's best-selling annual publication, with facts, feature articles, and advice that are "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor."

Reviews

[Quirkyreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a good introduction for anyone who hasn’t ever picked up a trowel and gardening fork. It’s a crash course on what can do well in your area, and how to keep the flowers healthy.

If you have been wanting to start a pollinator garden to help with bees and the Monarchs, this is a good beginning.

[Patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has brought me a world of joy just from looking through it. I am finally living in a house where I can have a flower garden. In fact, there is a small patch by the back door that was blooming and full of zinnias and sunflowers that allowed me to cut some and bring them inside in the Fall. We are going to plant them again this year.

What this book is going to show me is how to plant other flowers in the different places I have available – especially some bulbs. Tulips are my favorite flower and I hope to get some in next Fall so they will bloom the following Spring. I do have some bulbs coming up from the previous owner but I don’t know what they will be.

The Flower Gardener’s Handbook takes you through what you need to know about planting in your zone; when to plant, soil conditions, and most important – what will grow and when. It’s easy to read and chock full of a lot of valuable information. At least this novice flower gardener sees it that way.

I will be looking back and forth and through the various pages to the flowers I most want and with all good luck next year I will be awash in color. Hopefully that will make the butterflies and bees happy.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars. Some good tips but like most general gardening books, not much about growing in the desert. Did learn that a biennial plant (hollyhocks) needs to produce 4x's as many seeds as a perennial and twice as many of an annual just to survive; hollyhocks are a cousin to okra and cotton and that their name probably originated from the Crusaders (1095-1291) using salve from the plants for an anti-inflammatory to heal horses' legs/hocks.

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[Kat Root · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good beginner's guide to flower gardening!