Description
This text provides detailed, but readily usable, technical information about bulbs and their professional use in the landscape. It includes up-to-date information about cultivars and their uses, together with techniques for planting and maintaining bulb plantings in a wide range of landscape features. This book should be of interest to parks directors and managers; landscape architects; landscape contract managers; botanic and historic garden managers and head gardeners; and private horticultural consultants.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 line illustrations, 50 halftone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-419-20940-9 (9780419209409)
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Content
Characteristics of bulbs and how they affect their use. Requirements for successful cultivation. Soils and aspects. Varietal selection for various purposes. Formal bedding. Naturalising. Containers and planters. Indoor use. Flowering sequences and associations. Choosing bulbs. Health pointers and disinfection. Bulb sizes and planting densities. Bulb handling. Planting. By hand and machine. Formal planting and informal planting. Site preparation. Directory of main bulb types and their applications.