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Title: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Fragrant Gardens : How to Select and Make the Most of Scented Flowers and Leaves by Peter Loewer ISBN: 0-395-88492-6 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: lovely pictures
Comment: The photographs in this book are gorgeous and the text is interesting, informative and inspiring. Rather than leaping right into a description of flowering plants, however, the author begins with a chapter on smell itself, discussing it's importance, the fragrances that were popular in the Victorian era and those that are sought after today. The plants themselves are divided by type: annuals (which, for some reason, is where he puts scented geraniums); perennials; roses; bulbs, corms and tubers; shrubs and vines; water gardens; night gardens; and scented houseplants. Each chapter describes a large variety of plants and explains where and how to grow them. Also included is a design map for planting a border of annuals; a brief section on the diseases and pests that attack roses; a short chapter on general garden maintenance; and a complete index (but no list of suppliers).
The author has an easy to read, rambling writing style. He tells stories, gives personal reflections, supplies quotes from litereature and horticultural writings, and clearly know his subject. If you are looking for a general book on fragrant gardens, then you'll probably like this one a great deal. But if you're looking for more of a guide to scented plants, which ones to grow where, in a concise format, then this isn't the book for you. The author does supply light/water/soil requirements and hardiness zones for the plants in the book, but it's included in the text, it isn't in an easy-to-find table which means that you have to read through the entire thing in order to find appropriate plants for your garden.
This book is so pretty and fun to read that it would make a nice present for someone who likes to read gardening literature but it really isn't for the person who, like myself, was looking for quick reference guide to the types of scented plants for zone 5 that grow in full sun and under dense trees.
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Title: Fragrant Gardening by Steve Bradley, Val Bradley, Andrea Jones, Steven Bradley ISBN: 1571459286 Publisher: Laurel Glen Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Fragrant Garden: A Book About Sweet Scented Flowers and Leaves by Louise Beebe Wilder ISBN: 0486230716 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1974 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Evening Garden: Flowers and Fragrance from Dusk Till Dawn by Peter Loewer ISBN: 0881925322 Publisher: Timber Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Garden of Fragrance by Suzanne Frutig Bales, Suzy Bales ISBN: 0060393416 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Evening Gardens: Planning & Planting a Landscape to Dazzle the Senses After Sundown by Cathy Wilkinson Barash, Derek Fell, Jean Carlson Masseau ISBN: 1881527131 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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