Eileen PowellThe Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom: 576 annuals, perennials, and bulbs in full color (Potting-Bench Reference Books)

Great layout with all the information you could need to choose flowers for your garden.

I love this book. I just started gardening and I was looking for a good reference book with lots of information. I found it in this book right here! It has so much information that is easy to look up because the design of the pages and icons of the charts are very well explained. I recently decided to try to grow some flowers from seed and was looking for some kind of seed guide. This book has a lot of good information about growing flowers from seeds and then the reference parts explains how long each seed takes to germinate, how to care for it, how to care for the plant after it is grown, zones, scientific names, all the information you could want for a flower. It does only include flowers, I believe there are different books just like this for vegetables and bushes. It has a color picture reference section with nice pictures. It even has a section in the back for different names plants could have. Good book for referencing flowers I highly recommend it if you love information.

I love this book. I use it all the time.

This is the reference book I was looking for. There was one page turned back on itself but the book itself was in good condition with no underlining or highlighting. I felt that the package information for flower seeds was inadequate. This goes to the next level. If you don't know the scientific name, the common name is referenced in the back of the book. The scientific name insures that you get the flower you really want. I can't remember them either, so this was very helpful. It was delivered rapidly and the packaging was appropriate. I really liked the recommended plant combinations on each flower noted. That gets my creative juices flowing. This is a great book.

This is a great book and had all the information that I needed for starting flowers from seed and when to plant them.I found this book very helpful

This is an excellent resource! Over 500 pages of information, nearly everything I have looked up, including unusual and hard-to-find perennials and annuals, has been in this book. All plants are listed by their latin name, and Powell has included an easy index at the back of the book to look up the latin names under the common names. It's a really handy volume- each listing includes: brief description w/ page reference for a photograph included near the back of the book; the type of plant (hardy perennial, etc.), zones, flowering season; directions for sowing both indoors and outdoors, germinating time and requirements; transplanting information; care; combination ideas; warnings if the plant is toxic; and my favorite - how to propagate (i.e. by division, cutting, seed collecting, etc.). Also, any "tricks" for germination (like needing to soak seeds ahead of time), are also in the description. For anyone growing from seed, this is an excellent resource - much handier and more complete than many out there.

Great collection of info. If you are like me however and garden with using common names for plants, get ready to expand your knowledge. This book is set up by botanical name. While I've always admired people who can rattle off the botanical name of a plant, I've never been one to be able to retain that information. I'm going through the book marking pages with tabs with the common names and definitely learning in the process.I purchased this book after reading an article that recommended it. It's a great addition to my collection of gardening books.

I've had this book for about a month or two and have learned much about my plants. I really like that it gives the heat zones (as well as the hardiness zones) for the plants. Living in the desert it is very helpful to see which plants can survive the summer heat. The back of the book has a list of all the genera as well as its species along with zones, light, sun, height, etc. for quick reference. The one thing I do not like, however, is that all the photos are listed in one section in the back of the book. This makes it a little annoying flipping back and forth to see the pictures.

i love it

This book is just full of useful information for the novice gardener. Found it a great help would recommend it as a worthwhile buy

great

I was hoping to get a book with photos of flowers but there were none included. If you’re looking for a image of flowers with details, this isn’t a book for you. I want my money back so I can get a book that match descriptions.

Recieved book today dirty, damaged and ripped. Not to happy.