Gardening with Tulips

by Michael King

Book Overview

This pictorial guide presents a fresh approach to using these popular bulbs in contemporary gardens. The book begins with a history of tulips and moves on to design approaches and tips for various plant combinations. Twenty groups of tulips are described in detail, and a separate chapter deals exclusively with color varieties, making it easy for readers to choose tulips to create a wide palette of color combinations in their garden. Complete growing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881927449
• ISBN13: 9780881927443
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reading from History to Selection, Planting, and Care

I enjoy growing flowers, shrubs, trees, and vegetables but have never planted tulips. With a nice planting bed available at my office building that looked like just the place for a bed of perhaps 300 tulips, I wanted to get up to speed on their selection, planting, and care. In this book I got everything I needed plus a fascinating history of tulips that opened the book. Did you know that tulips come from wild growths in the mountainous areas of Central Asia? Cultivated in Turkey as early as 1000 AD, they were not common in Europe until after 1600. Given all of the things we are learning to fear from Central Asia, it is nice to know and instructive to learn of things of beauty that also originated there; perhaps there are more. The book has hundreds of colorful photos.