The Flower Gardener's Bible: A Complete Guide to Colorful Blooms All Season Long: 400 Favorite Flowers, Time-Tested Techniques, Creative Garden Designs, and a Lifetime of Gardening Wisdom Kindle Edition

This book is a comprehensive guide to gardening. Part One, fully a third of the book, contains the how-tos of making your garden successful, from preparing the soil, to managing pests, to properly caring for and feeding your plants. Part Two, called the Gallery of Gardens, is all about designing your garden. It contains the cartoon drawings of specific kinds of gardens like you see in Sunset Magazine and Better Homes & Gardens magazine. Garden suggestions are provided for shade gardens, rock gardens, butterfly and bird gardens, cottage gardens, rose gardens, scent gardens, and about 16 other examples. Speaking of scent, this book really stinks; it smells like an unperfumed, industrial soap. I don't know if it came off the presses smelling this way, or if it was doctored later. The final third of the book is devoted to an alphabetical list of the typical plants you will find in different regions of America, lists of cultivars, discussions of their growing characteristics, and small-to quarter page photographs of species. And I do mean typical; there did not seem to be any plants or flowers that are out of the ordinary. Even ones that might sound unusual, like Chinese lantern, Heavenly bamboo, or Aztec lily (which is really just an amaryllis) are quite common in certain geographical areas in this country. I have at least a passing knowlege of nearly all of the plants in the book, and I figure that if I know them, they can't be that unusual. The main problem I have with this section, as in most flower books, is that the plants are listed in alphabetic order by their scientific names, which most people don't even know. One must continually be turning to the index in the back of the book when looking for a certain plant that you know only by its common name. That being said, this is a very useful compendium and better, I think, than many of the cheaper, more popular guides offered by such publishers as Better Homes & Gardens.

In the Kindle Version on my Android tablet with the Kindle App, it opened & I swiped to the first page, which promotes an online site. When I tried to swipe to the next page it sent me to the promotional site. Every time. I returned it the next day for a refund.

my wife is an avid flower gardener and this book will come in handy this spring. has tons of good info and plenty of pics to help identify literally hundreds of flowers. If you love to grow flowers this book is a great addition to any gardening enthusiast.

I have not read all of this book yet, but I have a "black" thumb---meaning I can't garden worth a damn. This is an easy instructional book with pictures and diagrams of different layouts of gardens. Also there are several pages of different flower/plant identification charts. i am looking forward to doing some interesting gardening!

This book was so much better than I could have ever imagined. The book is very informative. There are 372 pages, beautiful pictures and the pages are very sturdy. Now, I have to say that the book is so enjoyable that the minute I got it I started reading it. I couldn't be happier.

This is an excellent book. It is well written as well as well organized and informative. The approach is organic without being too dogmatic. It is packed with information and beautiful pictures. Highly recommended.

Seems like a good book, but the Kindle edition kept1. Loading a web page advertised in the book2. Reloading the same page in new windows, over and over.Very frustrating. Returning this trojan horse.

Great information to fuel research into your gardening plans. Still may require a visit to your local nursery for what does well in your area, but at least you can sound intelligent when you go!

I was familiar with the book having previously borrowed one.Totally met my need to help me identify and select plants.

I really like this book! Had gotten from the library, but decided to buy a copy as I'm still learning and it makes a good reference book...

Would have liked more information on annuals and perrenials that are more common in our area.Lovely book though.

Very Good