Everybody loves summer flowers and during the spring we dream of borders packed with our favourite summer flowers in full bloom, whether we choose to sow seeds, plant tubers, cultivate cuttings or plant out ready-grown plants.Besides advice on summer ...
Everybody loves summer flowers and during the spring we dream of borders packed with our favourite summer flowers in full bloom, whether we choose to sow seeds, plant tubers, cultivate cuttings or plant out ready-grown plants.
Besides advice on summer borders and pots, the book contains a large number of descriptions of plants and about cultivation, sowing, re-potting, planting out in borders and pots, as well as easy guides with lots of suggestions for plants suited to different purposes.
From the contents:
- Be inspired by borders in public places. Tips on how the council’s garden experts plan and construct their summer displays. A selection of low and high plants as well as tips on looking after them.
- How to create a beautiful and hardy border at home. Choosing plants for the garden’s borders which will flower a long time.
- Suggestions for the best flowers for cutting, and how to construct a border purely for flowers that are to cut.
- Furnishing your garden or conservatory with pots
- On getting sumptuous blossoms in pots from spring to autumn. Colour combinations and suggestions for plants that will go well together.
- A balcony in full sun or shadow – plants that will cope with temperature changes and drying out.
- Choice of plants for hanging baskets, and step-by-step instructions for planting these.
- Mediterranean plants and how you can get these to survive the winter in pots.
- Separate colour sections for summer flowers in blue/violet, yellow/lime, orange, red/black, pink, white/grey, as well as multi-coloured leaves and grasses.
Inger Palmstierna is one of Sweden’s most popular and knowledgeable garden writers. Her previous publications include books on roses and greenhouses, as well as the standard guide for gardeners ‘Our Book of Gardening’.