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| Bulbs for Garden Habitats | 
| Author: Judy Glattstein
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 975617
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0881926930
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.94
EAN: 9780881926934
ASIN: 0881926930
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
Where most bulbs books repeat the seasonal approach to bulb gardening by bloom time, assuming the usual fall ritual of mass planting bulbs by the bushel, this book advocates more careful study of natural habitats and cultural needs before planting. All gardeners have experienced the frustration of having a bulb flower in the first year after planting, but poorly or never again thereafter. Judy Glattstein shows how a more naturalistic style of planting can pay greater dividends over time from healthy and thriving populations of bulbs. She uses a broad definition of bulbs, including a wide diversity of bulbs, corms, and tubers. By grouping them together with other plants that excel in similar conditions, she shows how all styles of gardens can prove more durable and require less maintenance in the long term. Perhaps most importantly, she emphasizes that choices based on climate and local ecology will yield a garden that truly "belongs" where it has been sited. Following her extensive research and travel throughout North America to visit hundreds of gardens, Glattstein offers detailed, regionally appropriate suggestions for gardeners everywhere.
Book Description
A naturalistic style of bulb planting can pay great dividends over time in your garden. To achieve a healthy and thriving population of bulbs, grouping them together with other plants that excel in similar conditions will prove more durable and require less maintenance. The author emphasizes that choices based on climate and local ecology will yield a garden that truly "belongs" where it has been sited.
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| Customer Reviews:
a garden book doesn't live on text alone ... May 19, 2005
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've just received my copy of this book. I find the approach chosen by Judy Glattstein innovative and fascinating, the text competent and entertaining. I was, however, terribly dissappointed about the quality of the photos. The worst are those taken by the author - they are mostly unsharp -, but most of the other pictures are no better. It's a shame quality control has not worked any better at Timber Press. If you want to know what good garden photography is, turn to Ian Adams' The Art of Garden Photography, just published by - Timber Press!
Herbert Frei, Zurich, Switzerland
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