Roses - Gardening

Roses

Name: Roses
Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing,Deni Bown
ISBN: 9780789406071

by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Deni Bown

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A lavishly illustrated, user—friendly handbook of roses.

Packed with more than 350 photographs of over 300 plants, Roses is an inspiring handbook to help you identify, choose, and grow your favorite varieties. Discover at a glance the full range of roses available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description, plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and cold hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower color in a particular season, The Plant Guide will offer you the perfect specimen. All the essential considerations such as selecting a rose, preparing the ground, watering, mulching, feeding, weeding, pest control, and transplanting are clearly explained. Pruning details are included for every type of rose. Details on propagation, including grafting techniques, are also given. Whether you are planting a new garden or seeking new features of interest for an established one, Roses is your indispensable, portable gardening companion.

A lavishly illustrated flexibound, Eyewitness Garden Handbooks are the user—friendly guides that identify every type of garden plant with up to ten salient features, at—a—glance information on height, spread, and color, and useful cultivation symbols. There are also separate sections on gardening skills and a complete index of common names.

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Library Journal

These two volumes pack a great deal of information into a small space, with the distinctive design and high-quality illustrations that are DK's hallmark. Perennials is a small, attractive reference guide "to selecting and identifying perennials." The plants are grouped first by size, then by season of interest, and then by color. Major garden plants like peonies and chrysanthemums are grouped together in boxed spreads. There are brief descriptions of the plants, their preferred habitat, and their cultivation, with U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zone information. Despite this effort to accommodate American gardeners, many of the named varieties listed seem to be of British origin and are not common in the American trade. However, this book would make a nice supplement to a more authoritative work like Ellen Phillips and C. Colston Burrell's Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials (LJ 12/95). Roses describes over 300 varieties, arranged by type (Modern Bush, Old Garden and Species, Miniature, etc.) and then color. Following is a brief guide to rose care. Although it describes more varieties than Judith McKeon's Encyclopedia of Roses (LJ 9/1/95), the latter provides more information on each variety and is far stronger on rose garden design, care, and disease control. Recommended as a supplement to more comprehensive works.Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.