Product Description

The book features: 202 detailed plant profiles; Plant selection charts by colour, height, and season; Flowers and ground covers for every site -- shady, sunny, moist, dry, and more; low-maintenance how-to's for preserving plants, backs, and tempers; Garden activity calendars for every season; Flowers and tips for attracting butterflies and birds; Sure-fire propagation techniques; Glossary of flower talk; Cross-referenced listings of botanical and common names; Midwest gardens to visit. Create the flower garden of your dreams with plants and techniques that will work in the sunny, snowy, ever-changing weather of the great Midwest. Areas covered: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2737116 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From the Author
Take this reference guide with you when shopping for plants!
This book was written from my personal gardening journals of what really grows and what doesn’t in our regional gardens. Bulbs and perennials are grouped into the season in which they bloom, by size, and by color. As a certified master gardener and garden designer, I wrote this book because I couldn’t buy it. Use this book as a practical, over-the-fence, down-and-dirty, money-saving reference guide when buying new flowering plants and adding new perennial gardens. Happy Gardening!

Customer Reviews

What a fabulous book!
This book is a wonderful tool for anyone with a garden. Its a radical new approach to an old concept. We even had fun coloring the illustrations to mach the flowers in our garden. Truly a joy.

Book Review: "The Gazette", June 1996 by Sue Davis Smith
"Sizzling heat and numbing cold produce special challenges for Midwestern gardeners, says an Iowa State University Extension master gardener, writer, and designer. Iowa's weather extremes forced Laara Duggan to learn what plants worked in her Cedar Falls garden and what didn't. She wrote in journals and notebooks about no-fail flowers and flowers that attracted butterflies. When Duggan shared her gardening experiences with her writing group, members encouraged her to write a book. Duggan's book includes a bit of garden lore, an easy-to-follow chart for designing a colorful garden and tips for seasonal chores. The book includes research from gardens in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin."

Book Review: "Metro", February 1997 by J. Ryan
"Gardening is an intimate art form - a time-honored method of creativity and personal love of beauty. Laara Duggan, a successful writer, artist and gardener has documented that philosophy to help hundreds of Eastern Iowans and Midwesterners enhance their own gardening experience. Duggan's book is itself a successful combination of art and information."