Best Bulbs For The Prairies

Card covers, 182 pages, 6x9 in - 15x22.5 cm. Colour and B&W illustrations and photographs. Illustrations by Grace Buzik.

Covers rubbed and creased, corners bumped.

Horticulture Specialist, Sara Williams writes in the Forward -"Best Bulbs For The Prairies, by Liesbeth Leatherbarrow and Lesley Reynolds, provides prairie gardeners with the answers they need to grow beautiful plants from bulbs. Not only have the authors grown these bulbs in their own gardens, but they have sought out the successes (and failures)of other gardeners across the prairies. They have coupled their empirical knowledge with well researched history on the origin and introduction of these bulbs, their early uses, and the folklore associated with them. ... Best Bulbs For The Prairies is both an invitation to the tried and tested and an incentive to explore the microclimates of your own landscape to expand the ever increasing possibilities of bulbs that can be grown on the prairies. It covers a wide range, from tender tropical summer bulbs to tough and hardy species from central Asia. It provides consumer information on what to look for at the point of purchase , warnings on endangered bulbs collected from the wild, and cultural practices geared to multiplying your bulbs. ..."

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