Plant Propagator's Bible (eBook)

A Step-by-Step Guide to Propagating Every Plant in Your Garden

Miranda Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
192 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-6980-7 (ISBN)

Infos

With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, veteran horticulture teacher Miranda Smith provides a complete reference showing every step for cultivating new plantswhether from seed or cuttings or with techniques such as layering, grafting, and budding. Propagating new plants from existing ones is not only sustainable but also rewarding for gardeners of all skill levels. The Plant Propagator's Bible offers a solid and complete, go-to reference for expert gardeners but is also a perfect primer for the novice plant lover and horticulturalist. Smith teaches readers, with the support of hundreds of 4-color photos and detailed illustrations, the natural process and conditions in which plants grow and reproduce, and shows gardeners how to use these systems to propagate any plant that grows in their garden or greenhouseor even on their windowsill. The book features: An A to Z directory of more than 1,000 individual plant specieswith appropriate propagation techniques for aquatics, ornamental plants, houseplants, shrubs, trees, vegetables, and wildflowers';What Can Go Wrong' advice for each type of plant, explaining potential problems and how to prevent or fix themDetailed, step-by-step illustrations and annotated photographs Including information on essential tools and equipment, this is an indispensable addition to every gardener's bookshelf.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Air • Air layering • apical-wedgegrafting • Budding • bulbs corms • Cactus • Cane • Carbon dioxide • Characteristics • Chip • chip budding • cleaning • conifer • Corning • cuttings • Dark • disease prevention • Dividing • dividing plants with bulbs corms • dividing plants with offsets • dropping • environmentally friendly • equipment • Fall • fibrous root systems • fleshy crowns • Flowers • Free • French • french layering • Gardening • good digging • Grafting • grafting a cactus • grafting with rootstocks • Greenwood • Growth characteristics • Harvesting • horticulture • houseplant • how to make more • Illustrated • Indoor Growing • layering • Leaching • leaf petiole • leaf vein • leaf vein cuttings • Life Cycles • light • make new plants from • monocut leaf • Mound • mound layering • NATURAL • no waste • organic • plant sharing • Pollination • Project • propagation • propagation techniques book • Relative humidity • Rhizomes • Root • saddle • saddle grafting • saving • scaling lilly • Scarification • scooping • Scoring • scoring bulbs • Sectioning • seeds • Self-Sufficiency • semiripe • Shrub • side veneer • side veneer grafting • simple and serpentine • simple and serpentine layering • soaking • softwood • soil mixes • starting • Stems • Step by Step • stooling • storing • Stratification • Suckers • Survival • Sustainable • t-budding • Tip • tip layering • TIPS • Treating • Tree • Tubors • upright leaf • upright leaf cuttings • Vegetable • whip-and-tongue • whip-and-tongue grafting • Wildflower • Winter • with rootstocks • Woody • woody crowns • working with Hybrids
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-6980-1 / 0760369801
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-6980-7 / 9780760369807