- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (Dec 6 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0882662597
- ISBN-13: 978-0882662596
- Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 21.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 898 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#140,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #52 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > Herbs
- #75 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > By Plant
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From Library Journal
For gardeners who are looking for economical ways to add plants to their gardens or for those who can't wait until the newest cultivar makes its way into the local nursery, growing from seed is a solution. Landscape designer Powell gives germination and cultural information for over 500 flowering plants. Following basic chapters on seed starting, seedling care, and vegetative propagation, plant entries are listed alphabetically by genus and often accompanied by a line drawing of the mature plant. Succinct "seed packet" information is provided on sowing, germination, planting seedlings outdoors, caring for plants, and propagation. Not all the plants listed are easy to grow from seed, and some take years until there is a bloom to behold. But gardeners honest about their abilities and degree of patience will find useful information. A good addition to collections that already have Ann Reilly's Park's Success with Seeds (Park Seed Co., 1978. o.p.), which has hard-to-find color photographs of emerging seedlings. (Index not seen.)-Virginia A. Henrichs, Chicago Botanic Garden Lib., Glencoe, Ill.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This paperback guide to growing from seed is an alphabetical listing of 536 plants--from abronia to zinnia--with information on sowing, germinating, caring, propagating, hardness zones, and light and soil requirements. Most listings include a black-and-white drawing of the plant. There is advice on the basics of starting plants from seed, including a chapter on the joy of asexual propagation--which may be a bit more than the average gardener needs to know. There's also a cross-reference listing of common and botanical plant names, as well as a list of seed companies. George Cohen
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3.0 out of 5 stars
No Vegetables what a bummer,
By Where are the tomatoes and peppers (Oak Park, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From Seed to Bloom: How to Grow over 500 Annuals, Perennials, & Herbs (Paperback)
Do not purchase this book if you are looking for advice on starting vegetables, because even though veggies are annuals that bloom, they are not covered in this guide. If you prefer to reference your plants by the common names (e.g. Lilly of the Valley - not Convallaria) or a color photo, then this book will be hard to use, because the plants are ordered by their taxanomic/latin names and all of the drawings are black and white sketches.If you are able to find the plant that you are looking for, then the propogation/seed starting information is pretty good. Bottomline, probably not the best book if you are just beginnig to experiment with the hobby of growing your annuals from seed.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good on the seed, but not on the bloom,
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This review is from: From Seed to Bloom: How to Grow over 500 Annuals, Perennials, & Herbs (Paperback)
I have been planting flowers from seed in my home for almost 5 years now. Last year I had over 1400 seedlings on multi-level shelves under flourescent and natural light in my dining room. (Boy do I need a greenhouse!) So this book was not a lot of new information to me. A lot of what is listed can be found on the back of a seed packet, but it's not practical to sit on the floor of my favorite garden supply store and read every seed package for suggestions before I buy it. (This is important, because I'm not interested in refrigerating my seeds 3 weeks before I plant them or doing other such preparations required for some seeds.) One major thing missing from this book was photography. There were drawings, but I'm sorry to say that they were mostly a way of breaking up the monotony of the text rather than a reference tool. On the good side, this book did an excellent job of providing the proper germination environment, and each plant had a quick reference in a shaded box that listed the type of plant (annual, perennial, etc), its hardiness zone, and its flowering season. This allowed me to quickly eliminate the plants that were inappropriate for my zone. The regular index wasn't very useful, but one wonderful addition was an index of the common & latin names. I refer to this when looking at some of my books that include the full color photography I was missing. (Almost makes up for it....almost!) Of course, there is the standard hardiness zone map, but they also added a map each for the probable first and last frost dates. (Nice!) Also included was a directory of seed companies and their addresses. All in all, this book does a good job of covering the seed part, but a poor job of covering the bloom part.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Indispensible,
By A Customer
This review is from: From Seed to Bloom: How to Grow over 500 Annuals, Perennials, & Herbs (Paperback)
I am a plant propagator, both at work and at home, and I have access to all the seed starting handbooks. This is the one I turn to the most often. It's comprehensive and easy to use. In fact, if it included vegetables, it could pretty much stand alone. The only thing that would make it a little better would be illustrations of the seedlings.
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