A visual feast packed with facts about plant life and anatomy for the young gardener in your life. A Eureka! Nonfiction Honoree Beloved by educators, nonfiction superstar Gail Gibbons has covered seeds, farming, vegetables, and fruits for children--and now it's time for flowers. This lushly illustrated nonfiction introduction to the basics and life cycle of flowers--including common regional species, flowers' habitable range, basic flower care and cultivation, and flower anatomy and pollination--is clearly and stunningly presented with diagrams and labels for young readers. A book tailor-made for introducing youngsters to early science concepts, whether at home or in the classroom. After reading Flowers, kids will have a new appreciation for the natural world.
Featuring expert advice from Erin Benzakein, world-renowned flower farmer, floral designer, and bestselling author of Floret Farm: Cut Flower Garden, this book is a gorgeous and comprehensive guide to everything you need to make your own ...
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Presents simple techniques for an early spring garden of color profiling 30 hardy annual flowers.
The beauty of flowers has inspired artists, designers, poets, and myriad other creators for centuries: the Dutch masters of the 1600s and impressionist painters from Manet to Van Gogh, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, botanical illustrator ...
Vegetables Love Flowers walks you through the ins and outs of companion planting, from how it works to which plants go together and how to grow the best garden for your climate.
"The author outlines the mythology of flowers in the ancient and early Christian worlds and explains their special significance for love and marriage, in customs and festivals and the use...
Organized by season and illustrated by handsome engravings, this delightful guide to wild and cultivated flowers reveals the proper names of familiar blossoms, their color varieties, and bloom cycles.
This rich treasury of 253 high-quality, black-and-white illustrations encompasses a profusion of tropical blooms, garden flowers, house plants, roses, orchids, wildflowers, and many other popular florals.
This book was written to help people realize the value of flowers and how they can help us in our every day lives.
Doug Kennedy’s funny and evocative illustrations bring the rhyming text and flowers to life. The book concludes with a photograph and description of each flower, along with easy steps for a child to plant three gardens of his or her own.