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# 32 vivid plant profiles Water-wise gardening tips Includes journal pages Flower Gardener’s Handbook

**Price:** HK$228
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## Summary

> 🌿 Cultivate your dream garden—because your space deserves to bloom brilliantly!

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- **What is this?** Flower Gardener’s Handbook
- **How much does it cost?** HK$228 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Key Features

- • **Invite Nature In:** Discover native & bird-friendly plants that boost biodiversity and create your personal oasis.
- • **Grow with Confidence:** Expert advice on planting, pest control, soil health, and transplanting for thriving flowers.
- • **Garden Anywhere, Anytime:** Container gardening and seed-starting tips for flexible, space-smart floral success.
- • **Cut & Preserve Like a Pro:** Learn the art of harvesting and drying flowers to keep your garden’s beauty indoors all year.
- • **Master 32 Stunning Blooms:** From asters to wisteria, detailed care & vibrant photos to elevate your garden game.

## Overview

The Old Farmer's Almanac Flower Gardener's Handbook is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide featuring 32 detailed plant profiles, expert advice on planting, soil, pest control, and water-wise practices. It empowers gardeners to grow native, bird-friendly, and container flowers, with practical tips on cut-flower preservation and journaling to track garden success. Highly rated and a top choice for perennial gardening enthusiasts.

## Description

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, America’s longtime trusted gardening resource, shares with you how to grow more than 30 stunning flowers throughout the year. Gorgeous photos accompany expert guidance and inspirational ideas, providing gardeners of all experience levels with the tools for success and creative enjoyment. We all want one—a lush, lovely flower bed or pot full of colorful blooms all season long! But it’s not easy to know where to begin or how to handle certain problems along the way that challenge making our dream a reality. This is where The Flower Gardener’s Handbook comes in. Created by The Old Farmer’s Almanac , America’s longtime trusted gardening resource, this book will take you by your garden-gloved hand and show you how to plan, plant, and care for more than 30 amazing flowers that will make you—as well as your family, friends, and neighbors—smile in absolute delight. Gorgeous photos accompany expert guidance and inspirational ideas, providing gardeners of all experience levels with the tools for success and creative enjoyment. Highlights include . . . Imagine the possibilities! This accessible and inviting resource introduces you to bulbs, annuals, biennials, perennials, shrubs, and vines that will perk up your space and season. Browse the 32 plants profiled in vivid detail (from asters, irises, and coneflowers to hydrangeas, roses, and wisteria); for each, you’ll find beautiful photos and essential information on planting, care, disease and pest problems, cut-flower harvesting, and recommended varieties. There are also helpful chapters on summer-flowering shrubs, tiny bulbs, flowers for constant color throughout the season, and more! Invite birds to your garden! Discover flowering annuals, perennials, and shrubs that offer food and shelter to make feathered friends feel right at home. Go native! Native plants offer many advantages, such as requiring little to no maintenance or water once established. They also provide nectar for native pollinators. Read about native flower options for various parts of North America, and you’ll get a feel for which ones you might like to grow. Want to bring the joy indoors? Find out the best ways to cut and preserve your garden’s floral bounty or to dry your blossoms for long-lasting enjoyment. Don’t have the yard space to grow flowers or just want to keep things simple? Containers to the rescue! Learn the “pot-ticulars” about sizes, types, and growing mediums and then get ready to pot up your prized petunias! Nurturing flowers from seeds can be an inexpensive way to fill up a flower bed and offers more options for variety and color than you’ll likely see in transplants available locally. Choose your favorites and then discover how to get your plant babies off to a great start. Moving to a new location can take it out of us, and the same goes for plants. Whether you grow your own or purchase just-the-right flowers at your local garden center, find out when they can be safely transplanted to their permanent homes. True success starts at ground level—or even deeper. Learn about soil structure, texture, pH, nutrients, and fertilizers, as well as how to improve your existing soil so that your plants grow up healthy and happy. Water is a precious resource. Gardeners just about everywhere can face periodic drought as well as high water bills and seasonal water restrictions, so water-saving practices in the garden not only make good “green” sense but also save time, energy, and effort. Read about ways in which you can be water-wise! Diseases and pests like flowers, too. The Flower Gardener’s Handbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand information on how to identify and control a host of troublemakers.

Review: A Beginner-Friendly Guide with a Touch of Old-Fashioned Charm - As a beginner gardener, I found this book to be a great resource. It provides clear, practical guidance on planting and caring for flowers in their early years, along with helpful information on pruning as they mature. While the book focuses on just 32 flowers, it also includes recommended varieties for each one, which makes it easier to choose based on color preferences and soil conditions. One of my favorite touches is the inclusion of historical quotes and the origins of each flower’s name. They aren’t essential, but they add a pleasant, almost nostalgic charm that makes the book especially enjoyable to browse. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed using this book and would happily recommend it to other beginner gardeners looking for a friendly, easy-to-follow guide.
Review: Nice book - I purchased this book for my grandmother and was surprised at how nice and informative it was. My grandmother loves it and uses it all the time. Very happy with this product.

## Features

- Imagine the possibilities! This accessible and inviting resource introduces you to bulbs annuals biennials perennials shrubs and vines that will perk up your space and season. Browse the 32 plants profiled in vivid detail (from asters irises and coneflowers to hydrangeas roses and wisteria); for each you’ll find beautiful photos and essential information on planting care disease and pest problems cut-flower harvesting and recommended varieties. There are also helpful chapters on summer-flowering shrubs tiny bulbs flowers for constant color throughout the season and more! |Invite birds to your garden! Discover flowering annuals perennials and shrubs that offer food and shelter to make feathered friends feel right at home.|Go native! Native plants offer many advantages such as requiring little to no maintenance or water once established. They also provide nectar for native pollinators. Read about native flower options for various parts of North America and you’ll get a feel for which ones you might like to grow.|Want to bring the joy indoors? Find out the best ways to cut and preserve your garden’s floral bounty or to dry your blossoms for long-lasting enjoyment.|Don’t have the yard space to grow flowers or just want to keep things simple? Containers to the rescue! Learn the “pot-ticulars” about sizes types and growing mediums and then get ready to pot up your prized petunias!|Nurturing flowers from seeds can be an inexpensive way to fill up a flower bed and offers more options for variety and color than you’ll likely see in transplants available locally. Choose your favorites and then discover how to get your plant babies off to a great start.|Moving to a new location can take it out of us and the same goes for plants. Whether you grow your own or purchase just-the-right flowers at your local garden center find out when they can be safely transplanted to their permanent homes.|True success starts at ground level—or even deeper. Learn about soil structure texture pH nutrients and fertilizers as well as how to improve your existing soil so that your plants grow up healthy and happy.|Water is a precious resource. Gardeners just about everywhere can face periodic drought as well as high water bills and seasonal water restrictions so water-saving practices in the garden not only make good “green” sense but also save time energy and effort. Read about ways in which you can be water-wise!|Diseases and pests like flowers too. The Flower Gardener’s Handbook provides detailed easy-to-understand information on how to identify and control a host of troublemakers. |Write it down! Take advantage of occasional journal pages to jot down important notes such as your soil’s pH seed-starting details planting dates and pest problems and treatment. Record your observations about plant performance bloom times and more to help you keep track of which varieties work well and which you’d like to switch out in the following year.|What’s an Old Farmer’s Almanac guide without a little folklore and fun? Inside you’ll learn how to interpret Latin plant names (Did you know that mirabilis means “wonderful”?) the symbolism in the language of flowers (a peony can express “happy life”) and what your birth flower is (hint: some months have two!).|Plus much more!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #8,424 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Perennial Gardening #6 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Books) #15 in Gardening Encyclopedias |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 728 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Beginner-Friendly Guide with a Touch of Old-Fashioned Charm
*by C***E on May 5, 2026*

As a beginner gardener, I found this book to be a great resource. It provides clear, practical guidance on planting and caring for flowers in their early years, along with helpful information on pruning as they mature. While the book focuses on just 32 flowers, it also includes recommended varieties for each one, which makes it easier to choose based on color preferences and soil conditions. One of my favorite touches is the inclusion of historical quotes and the origins of each flower’s name. They aren’t essential, but they add a pleasant, almost nostalgic charm that makes the book especially enjoyable to browse. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed using this book and would happily recommend it to other beginner gardeners looking for a friendly, easy-to-follow guide.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book
*by C***E on August 11, 2024*

I purchased this book for my grandmother and was surprised at how nice and informative it was. My grandmother loves it and uses it all the time. Very happy with this product.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful books
*by N***. on December 17, 2025*

These books are lovely.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Old Farmer's Almanac Flower Gardener's Handbook (Gardener's Handbooks, 2)
- The Old Farmer's Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Gardener's Handbooks, 1)
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac Container Gardener’s Handbook (Gardener's Handbooks, 3)

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