Summer Blooming Bulbs

Brighten the summer garden with extravagant bulbs--not only familiar flowers but also exotics such as the South African nerine, Near Eastern eremurus, and Asian Colocasia. An encyclopedia highlights the experts' favorites from every region, with fabulous photos and foolproof advice on cultivation and care. Try clever and creative ways of combining summer bulbs with more common plants in beds and borders, of naturalizing them in the landscape, and of growing them in containers. Your garden will be the neighborhood's hottest!

Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation. Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions. Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced. This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape. Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.

Providing a practical guide to growing the various types of Rhododendrons, this book includes colour illustrations featuring the magnificent plants at all times of the year. It also includes a brief history of the plant.'

After the riotous flowers of spring fade away, too many gardens are colorless in summer. The answer is to grow summer bulbs--gladioli, lilies, daylilies, dahlias, tuberous begonias, cannas, and others covered in this book. 80 color photos.

Named a Best Gift Book for Gardeners by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Domino magazine, and Goop. The team behind the inspirational design sites Gardenista.com and Remodelista.com presents an all-in-one manual for making your outdoor space as welcoming as your living room. Tour personality-filled gardens around the world and re-create the looks with no-fail planting palettes. Find hundreds of design tips and easy DIYs, editors’ picks of 100 classic (and stylish) objects, a landscaping primer with tips from pros, over 200 resources, and so much more.

Gloxinias, tigridias, sprekelias. Their names are as exotic as the blossoms these summer bulbs produce. Best-selling garden writer Henry Jaworski offers foolproof growing advice that assures success with more than 50 varieties of tender bulbs for summer blooming. His easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach is illustrated with gorgeous and practical full-color photographs.