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With the right guidance and a little practice, you can grow a cut-flower garden from seed and brighten every room in your home with fresh blooms! Flower Gardening for Beginners has all the information you’ll need to plan, cultivate, tend, harvest, and arrange homegrown flowers—no experience required.

The Essential Flower Essence Handbook, written by Lila Devi, is the first comprehensive guidebook of the 20 Spirit-in-Nature Essences, formerly Master's Flower Essences—the oldest flower essence line outside the U.K. since 1977. Here, founder Lila Devi weaves an entertaining yet practical overview of this healing art.

From the baneful bog to the garden gate, plant lover and lover of the bizarre Varla Ventura brings together forgotten lore of plants for the ultimate romp through a botanical wonderland, including excerpts from fairy tales and a lively discussion of each plant's legendary magical and medicinal properties. Don't forget your scissors.

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.

Have you never met a plant you couldn't kill? Does maintaining a flourishing flower garden seem intimidating or time-consuming? Have you dug around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back? This book is for you! Inside you'll find everything you need to know to grow beautiful flowers, including gardening basics to set you up for success; great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow; easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs; and helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening.

Wenn einem mal wieder alles über den Kopf wächst. Garten könnte so schön sein. Doch statt die Ruhe im Grünen zu genießen, muss der kleine Gartenversager zusehen, wie Spanische Wegschnecken, Drüsiges Springkraut, Chinesische Stinkwanzen und Kanadische Goldrute seine Kleingartenparzelle erobern und ihm die Ernte streitig machen. Tapfer sagt er Monsterpflanzen und Mistviechern den Kampf an, doch die unliebsamen Besucher denken gar nicht daran, das Feld zu räumen.

Discover the growing community of Black floriculture leading the new vanguard in flowers. Black Flora is the first book to feature profiles of contemporary Black experts innovating in the world of flowers. Author and longtime gardener, Teresa Speight, offers a beautiful intersection of flowers...