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The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide: How to Combine Shape, Color, and Texture to Create the Garden of Your Dreams Paperback – July 5, 2022

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“Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams.”—Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden
 
The colors, shapes, and scents of flowers are as ravishing to the senses as to the soul. But it’s all too easy get things wrong: colors that clash, flowers that bloom at the wrong time, plants that fail to thrive. Enter The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide by expert gardener Jenny Rose Carey. She tells you exactly how to get started, how to combine plants for the most spectacular effects, and how to keep your garden going from year to year. Whether you’re interested in dramatic color combinations, how best to use a favorite flower, or how to create a garden for a specific purpose, such as nourishing pollinators, you’ll find the answers in this friendly, information-packed book. As Jenny herself says, “Don’t be afraid—just have a go!”
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“A thorough approach to landscaping. A wrap-up section showcases inspirational layouts and provides practical suggestions for starting…A detailed and handy reference.” —Booklist
 
“Expertise and artistry are in full bloom in this outstanding floral masterclass from historian Carey…Encyclopedic knowledge and a fantastic eye for detail make this a must-read for gardeners of all levels.” —Publishers Weekly

“Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams.” —Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden
 
“The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide is a master class on flower gardening. It is like my favorite cookbooks: chatty, inspiring, informative, and packed with luscious, mouth-watering photographs. A must for every flower gardener.”—Marta McDowell, author of Unearthing the Secret Garden
 
“Jenny’s infectious love of flowers radiates out from this beautiful how-to guide to turning your flower garden dream into reality. Whatever your skill level, this book offers new learning and delight.” —Matt Rader, President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
 
“Whether your garden is sunny or shady, wet or dry, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide will inspire you to get planting.” —R William Thomas, Executive Director of Chanticleer Garden

“All the information you will need to prepare, plan, finally plant, and maintain the plants in your garden.”—Commonweeder

“Carey’s writing style is wonderful, and the pictures are good enough that this would be a coffee table book…in short, get this book.”—The Washington Gardner

“From bloom shape to colour and more, this book gives you the knowledge to design your flower borders for maximum effect.” —The Garden, RHS

"Amazingly helpful for every gardener…[it] gives you all the information you will need to prepare, plan, finally plant, and maintain the plants in your garden.”—Commonweeder ​

About the Author

Jenny Rose Carey is a renowned gardener, educator, historian, and author, and the former senior director at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Meadowbrook Farm in Jenkintown. She previously worked at Temple University for over a decade, first as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and then as director of the Ambler Arboretum. Jenny Rose has been lecturing nationally and internationally for many years. She is an avid hands-on gardener who has gardened in both England and the United States. Her Victorian property, Northview, contains diverse garden spaces, including a cutting garden, an herb garden, a dry garden, and various mixed flower beds. Jenny Rose and her gardens have been featured on the PBS series The Victory Garden, in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Grow magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gardener.
 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Timber Press (July 5, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643260383
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643260389
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.05 x 1 x 10.05 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

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I am an English-American horticulturist, teacher and avid gardener. I love to grow, write about, and photograph gardens and plants. All information in my books is from first-hand experience. I encourage gardeners to grow things that bring them joy using methods that encourage wildlife, and restore their local environment. I garden at Northview Garden in SE Pennsylvania, USA.

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My New Favorite Gardening Book!
This is my new favorite gardening book! Jenny Rose Carey is a gifted author, and The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide is a wonderful, informative and beautifully written guide to flower gardening.The book features annuals and perennials, and provides valuable information on flower choice, shapes, color, texture and design. The photographs are also excellent.Over the last two pandemic years I have been spending more time in my garden and have wanted to increase my flower knowledge. This book is an ideal way to enhance one's flower garden knowledge.
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jfm
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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This is such a beautiful and informative book. Highly recommend!
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Juneau Junebug
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent gardening book
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024
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This will definitely stay in my library of garden books. Lots of very good information on many potential plants for a garden, both perennials and notable annuals — gorgeous color photos. Highly recommend.
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Pamela Hubbard
5.0 out of 5 stars It should be on every gardener's shelf
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2022
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The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is Jenny Rose's sunny companion to her first book, Glorious Shade. It has five sections:

In the first section, Jenny Rose helps us look at individual flowers and truly see them, not just their color but the many shapes and their role in the garden. In the second chapter, Jenny Rose gives the stars of each season that she defines as early to mid-spring, late spring to early summer, high summer, late summer into autumn, and winter. She suggests tasks and activities for each. The following section comprises numerous plant pictures and detailed profiles, including the shape and the plant's role in the garden. This section enables the gardener to make informed choices. The final two chapters describe types of flowerbeds, hardscaping, and various kinds of gardens. I am thrilled that the author featured my garden in the section on looking for inspiration.

Beautifully written, and the photographs in the book are gorgeous - the author took most of them. Jenny Rose's title for this book is very appropriate. It is truly the ultimate guide for any gardener to begin a new garden or improve an existing one.
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Kathleen
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice all-around flower garden book
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023
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Covers colors, seasons, shapes, etc. All plants discussed are pictured. A very pretty book.
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Foster Stevenson
5.0 out of 5 stars My New Favorite Gardening Book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022
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This is my new favorite gardening book! Jenny Rose Carey is a gifted author, and The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide is a wonderful, informative and beautifully written guide to flower gardening.

The book features annuals and perennials, and provides valuable information on flower choice, shapes, color, texture and design. The photographs are also excellent.

Over the last two pandemic years I have been spending more time in my garden and have wanted to increase my flower knowledge. This book is an ideal way to enhance one's flower garden knowledge.
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Foster Stevenson
5.0 out of 5 stars My New Favorite Gardening Book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022
This is my new favorite gardening book! Jenny Rose Carey is a gifted author, and The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide is a wonderful, informative and beautifully written guide to flower gardening.

The book features annuals and perennials, and provides valuable information on flower choice, shapes, color, texture and design. The photographs are also excellent.

Over the last two pandemic years I have been spending more time in my garden and have wanted to increase my flower knowledge. This book is an ideal way to enhance one's flower garden knowledge.
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JohnD
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2023
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I have a lot of gardening books but this one is a real keeper. Easy to use, lots of pictures and good advice for a flower gardener!
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Chrissy Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for the flower gardener
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
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I have been purchasing and reading gardening books for over two decades and this book is by far the one I have enjoyed reading most of all.
It should be in every gardeners library.
Photography is beautiful. The list of flowering plants in the center of the book is going to be my flower bible forever.
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tea4two
5.0 out of 5 stars Luv this book!
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2022
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This book is great. Beautiful photos and very helpful tips and information! Luv it
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SM
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful photos, great info.
Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2023
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The images are gorgeous and the info given for each flower is the most basic needed to get started.
Lists shape, role in your garden, where to place in the garden, bloom time, size, hardiness zone, annual or perennial.
Lots of other useful info as well. As a vegetable gardener originally, I find the info helpful for branching out into flower gardening. Excited to order Jenny's other book about shade plants.
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and fabulous photos
Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2022
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This book is INCREDIBLE!!! I have an extensive library of garden/flower books and this is one I will treasure and reference throughout the year.
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Tony Van Leeuwen
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book for any serious gardener
Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2022
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If you like gardening, then this book is for you.
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