Growing Ferns - Softcover

Growing Ferns

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Don's Book Store
(Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.)

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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Ediiton. 96 Pages Indexed. Front endpaper has large blacked out label-sized probably previous owner's name with a large red number 1995. No other marks and interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. There is a fourteen page center section of color photography with lots of green. There is a very special quality about ferns which conjures up images of coolness, calmness, peacefulness. They are graceful and lush, and can make a major contribution towards a relaxed and inviting feeling in any garden. Ferns are popular as both garden and indoor plants. If you choose carefully the varieties best suited to your situation, ferns can become some of your most successful and attractive plants, presenting as they do an amazing variety of plant size, foliage texture and colour. This book, a complete guide to growing ferns in Australia and New Zealand, covers fern propagation and management, along with growing problems, and how to use ferns as elements in landscaping. Lots of practical advice, diagrams and photographs, and over 80 colour plates. John Mason is Principal of the Australian Horticultural Correspondence School in Melbourne. Contents: PART A: Discovering Ferns, How to Grow Ferns, In the Greenhouse, Problems, Propagation, and Growing Ferns in Containers. PART B: Directory of Ferns in Cultivation. PART C: Appendices, Glossary, Further Reading, Fern Nurseries, Suppliers of Equipment and Materials, Fern Clubs and Societies, Where to See Ferns, Recommended Ferns, and Further Information-Correspondence Courses. Seller Inventory # 20024

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