Taylors Guide To Annuals

Several concurrent trends have created the need for a new book on annual plants. One is the increasing popularity of container gardening, for which these plants are particularly suited. Another is the hottest trend in landscaping -- creating a bold, even jungly look through the use of tropical plants and other dramatic specimens, most grown as annuals in temperate zones. To meet the demand, growers have developed hundreds of new plants and improved cultivars of old favorites. In this Taylor's Guide, buyers will find more than five hundred of the latest, trendiest plants and the best cultivars of the beloved old standbys.

Annual flowers provide a profusion of shapes and colors. They can be planted alongside perennials, bulbs, shrubs, or ornamental vegetables.

For all-season color and a bountiful supply of cut flowers for the house, annuals fill a unique niche in a gardener's landscape plans.

Perennials are every gardener's favorite plants. They provide colorful flowers and leafy foliage, and, best of all, their beauty returns year after year. In this fully illustrated guide, you’ll find - The best new cultivars of the beloved old-fashioned plants of grandmother’s garden - Exciting new introductions from all over the world - Today’s popular ornamental grasses, perfect for combining with other perennials in low-maintenance gardens - Ferns to grow among the flowers And for every plant pictured, you’ll find complete growing information as well as notes on how to propagate your own plants to fill your garden with "free" flowers.

Provides information on growing trees, perennials, annuals, grasses, herbs, and bulbs, features the basics of garden design, and talks about environmentally sound controls of pests and diseases.

This fact-filled reference to all aspects of growing classic garden plants includes a mini-encyclopedia listing the best varieties to buy, illustrated instructions on performing garden tasks, suggestions for using plants in the home landscape, and directions on propagating.

This guide lists 90 of the most popular annuals, plants that grow to full size, flower, seed and die within one year or one season, and gives detailed information on how to grow them.

Featuring more than 380 of the best garden roses, a guide that reflects the dramatic changes in the market for roses in the past few years supplies valuable advice on how to grow roses and describes the basic characteristics of different varieties of roses, including heirloom cultivars, hybrid tea and floribunda roses, miniature varieties, and climbers.