Annuals: A Growing Guide for Easy, Colorful Gardens (Burpee Basics, 1)

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EMMA SWEENEY is a garden designer and writer. She is also the author of Burpee Basics: Perennials and the co-author ofThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening. She currently lives and gardens on a 130-year-old farm in Clinton, New York, and has a certificate in horticulture from the New York Botanical Garden.

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Burpee Basics: Growing Guides for Easy, Colorful Gardens
Down-to-earth handbook for beginning gardeners

"Our new series of concise gardening guidebooks continues Burpee's proud tradition of giving gardeners the essentials they need. These handy little books have a great deal in common with seeds: each one contains all you need to start a wonderful gardening experience.... Even the most experienced gardeners attend to the basic practices that you'll find so skillfully explained in these guides." —George Ball, Jr., President of W. Atlee Burpee, from the Foreword

Annuals
Get your first garden up and growing with annuals.

Annuals are wonderful plants for the beginner gardener. Burpee Basics: Annuals provides detailed plant portraits — accompanied by full-color photographs — for 75 of the most popular annuals, rating each one for ease in growing and maintenance.

• Jam-packed with accessible, quick-reference information on everything from using color in the garden and improving the soil to pest and disease control.
• Informative sidebars contain time-saving tips, suggested plant lists, practical garden advice, and solutions to common mistakes.
• Color photographs of planted beds and borders, along with instructional line drawings.
• Handy gardener's calendar simplifies garden maintenance throughout the year.
• Includes U.S. and Canadian zone maps.