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Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening

Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening

A Gardener's Guide to Growing Flowers, from Today's Favorites to Unusual Varieties

by Matt Mattus
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/03/2020

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A comprehensive and highly practical study of the art of growing flowers, Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening presents expert tips on growing both annuals and biennials (including native and heirloom species) alongside hundreds of lush photographs.

This gorgeously illustrated book by Matt Mattus is based on decades of first-hand experience in his own garden and greenhouse made popular on his blog Growing with Plants. Every variety or species presented is one that he has personally trialed and grown. Mattus sets you up for success by providing everything you need to know about starting seeds, soil, sowing, hardening off, to transplanting, and growing on. Then, in the following chapters, you'll find tips for growing over 100 different annuals from seed and many summer bulbs, vines like wisteria and even blooming shrubs like lilacs. Every flower includes detailed information based on his hands-on experience, going beyond the information typically available on the seed packet or a nursery tag.

Learn details and cultural facts that will help you grow better flowers while introducing you to many more. You'll find tips for topics like how to grow challenging annual poppies and biennials from seedand forcing flowers for winter blooms. Just a small selection of the flowers covered: heirloom and exhibition chrysanthemums, larkspurs and annual poppies, delphiniums, peonies, lilacs and wisteria. Bulbs include spring and summer bulbs such as anemone, ranunculus, tulips, lilies, gladiolus, and cut flower dahlias, while winter indoor bulbs cover every aspect of forcing bulbs indoors like narcissus, amaryllis, South African bulbs--and even how to force Lily of the Valley.

In short, there is nothing ordinary about this book--it is unlike any other cut flower book you will find.

ISBN:
9780760366271
9780760366271
Category:
Gardening: flowers
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-03-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
260.35x209.55x21.59mm
Weight:
1kg
Matt Mattus

Matt Mattus is an American visual designer, artist, horticulturist, author and futurist. He is also a third generation gardener of his family property in Massachusetts. Matt's popular gardening blog Growing with Plants has garnered recognition in leading lifestyle magazines and is frequently voted a top 5 gardening blog.

It has won many national awards and nominations and has earned a loyal following of fans. He has served for 3 years as a trustee of the Tower Hill Botanic Garden (Boylston, MA, is Vice President of the 175-year-old Worcester County Horticultural Society, sits on the board of the Tower Hill Botanic Garden as a trustee, and is also President of the prestigious North American Rock Garden Society.

Matt is very active in many plant societies and is a popular speaker at botanic gardens, specialist plant societies and at horticultural conferences. For 28 years Mattus was employed by Hasbro, Inc. in creative roles ranging from Creative Director to Visual Futurist in their top-secret Innovation and Invention Lab.

Curently, Matt lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with his partner Joseph of 35 years in a 100-year-old family house with four dogs, 35 ducks, 50 chickens, 1 turkey and a big, fancy glass greenhouse.

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