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Title: Garden Bulbs for the South by Scott Ogden ISBN: 0-87833-861-6 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A must for every Southern 'Bulb Lover!'
Comment: Garden Bulbs for the South is simply a great book. The vast majority of books on bulbs deal extensively with Tulips, Grape Hyacinths, Daffodils and other cold climate bulbs and only give cursory information about warm climate bulbs and the information often pertains to container gardening. Every northerner moving South is tempted to try growing cold climate bulbs. Reading this book is both a delight and a time and money saver. It will also assist you in trying a lot of bulbs that you might otherwise overlook. It has been one of the most read books in my gardening library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Yes Virginia, There Are Bulbs We Can Grow In The South
Comment: My copy of Mr. Ogden's book is already dog-eared from use. Any gardener in the South who is interested in adding perennial bulbs to the garden must read this book. The information on every type of bulb, tuber or corm, including those of wild Southern heritage, is generous, well written and easy to understand. Garden Bulbs for the South is useful not only as a gardening reference but as a field classification manual when trying to identify that lily blooming at the old farmhouse down the road. After reading the chapter on rain lilies, I was finally able to determine what that tiny little lily growing wild in my front yard really is. Highly recommend.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good book overlooked, for overlooked plants
Comment: From Sarah B. Duke Gardens' Flora newsletter:
"Ogden is a plantsman familiar with all the bulbous (and cormous and tuberous) plants that can be grown out-of-doors in the South. He imparts his erudition lightly and with a flair uncommon in garden books today.
This book is worth buying for its 30-page chapter on Crinum and Spider lilies alone, a subject never treated properly in the usual books on bulbs because these beauties can't be grown in the North... The author also discusses myriad species of Gladiolus, Hippeastrum, Iris, Lycoris, Trillium, and Zephyranthes, as well as numerous genera with only a single cultivated representative, such as Ipheion. In addition, there are nearly 200 colored photographs, most of them smaller than a playing card, that vary from fair to excellent."
Very useful to a new gardener: in addition to telling me about bulbs I'd never heard of (and then immediately noticed in all the older gardens nearby), Ogden makes variety-specific recommendation about which daffodils (not King Alfred!), tulips (very few), muscari, etc., are going to thrive i.e. multiply rather than fade away. Some bulbs need colder winters than they will find in my part of Eastern NC. I've already saved the price of the book by not buying flowers that won't be happy in my yard!
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Title: Bulbs for Warm Climates by Thad M. Howard ISBN: 0292731264 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Perennial Garden Color: Perennials, Cottage Gardens, Old Roses, and Companion Plants by William C. Welch, Neil Sperry ISBN: 0878336281 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Tough Plants For Southern Gardens : by Felder Rushing ISBN: 1591860024 Publisher: Cool Springs Press Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists: The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims by Lois Trigg Chaplin ISBN: 0878338446 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Southern Heirloom Garden by William C. Welch, Greg Grant, Peggy Cornett Newcomb, Thomas Christopher, Nancy Volkman, Hilary Somerville Irvin, James R. Cothran, Richard Westmacott, Rudy J. Favreti, Flora Ann Vynum ISBN: 0878338772 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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