If you would like to request a sample copy or an interview, please email ginger@vaughancomm.com.
Watch Success Bloom With the Flower Gardener’s Handbook!
The experts at The Old Farmer’s Almanac are here to help EVERYONE grow their very best flower gardens.
Flowers are a gardener’s most versatile tool, adding texture, diversity, and color to any landscape. But with so many varieties, many gardeners ask, “What should I choose, and how do I even begin?”
Fresh from the success of its Vegetable Gardening Handbook (now in its fourth printing!), The Old Farmer’s Almanac is proud to present the Flower Gardener’s Handbook. This book presents flower gardening in an accessible, easy-to-maintain way that’s perfect for the beginner but also provides a useful reference guide for the seasoned grower.
At the book’s heart are profiles of 32 flowering plants that are the most common and popular throughout the United States and Canada so as not to overwhelm the budding flower gardener.
Each plant description includes practical growing advice, timesaving tips, recommended varieties, fascinating facts, creative ideas, and in-the-ground, real-world growing techniques and observations from Almanac readers.
In addition to the plant profiles, the Flower Gardener’s Handbook identifies dozens more flowering plants in informative and inspiring articles as well as care tips that cover:
- Perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs for any setting
- Native vs. non-native vs. naturalized plants: pros, cons, and differences
- Ideas and advice for creating color-filled containers
- Plants and shrubs that birds and pollinators love
- Summer-flowering shrubs
- Tiny bulbs that welcome spring year after year
- Expert advice for constant color
- Fresh flower cutting, arrangement, and care tips
- Flower-drying techniques and tips for choosing the best varieties
- Secrets to good soil: testing, texture, pH, and compost
- Seed-starting tips and best transplant times
- Facts about fertilizer: choosing and using the best option
- Effective pest and disease prevention and cures
Readers will find all of this in the Flower Gardener’s Handbook, plus tips on being more water-wise, a checklist for cleaning up the garden for winter, pages for records, notes, and observations, tips on how to enjoy the garden more by working on it less, and much more!
The full-color, 224-page Flower Gardener’s Handbook is the latest resource from The Old Farmer’s Almanac to help readers everywhere grow their best gardens. It is now available for $17.95 USD/$19.95 CAD wherever gardening books are sold, including at local booksellers and Tractor Supply, as well as online at Almanac.com/Shop and Amazon. With a durable, flexi-bound hardcover that’s easy to clean, this sure-to-be-essential planting guide is the best gardening companion since the trowel!
The Old Farmer’s Almanac—with its iconic yellow cover and classic corner hole—originates from Yankee Publishing Inc., an employee-owned company in Dublin, New Hampshire. The Almanac also offers a collection of wall and desk calendars, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, and several gardening titles/products, including the annual Garden Guide magazine and a line of gardening products.
For more information or media materials, please visit the Almanac Media Room. To request a media review copy of the Flower Gardener’s Handbook, please email Ginger Vaughan.
