Floret Farm's discovering dahlias : a guide to growing and arranging magnificent blooms / Erin Benzakein with Jill Jorgensen and Julie Chai ; photographs by Chris Benzakein.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781452181752
- ISBN: 1452181756
- Physical Description: 223 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2021]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Dahlias. Dahlias > Varieties. Flower gardening. Flower arrangement. |
Available copies
- 8 of 9 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 9 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 635.933983 BENZAKEIN 2021 (Text) | 0001002437398 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 635.9 BEN 2021 (Text) | 0002205550375 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Recklein Memorial-Cuba | 635.93 BEN (Text) | 33431000493740 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Steelville | 635.93 BEN (Text) | 33431000499929 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | 635.9 BENAKEIN (Text) | 2004543833 | Non-Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
Montgomery City Public Library | 635.9 BEN (Text) | 31927000026261 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Owensville | 635.9339 BEN (Text) | 3007183154 | NonFiction | On holds shelf | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | 635.9339 BEN (Text) | 32002005535297 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Webster County-Main Library-Marshfield | 635.93399 Benzakein (Text) | 3991267091 | * Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Publishers Weekly Review
Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias : A Guide to Growing and Arranging Magnificent Blooms
Publishers Weekly
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Benzakein (Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers), founder of the Floret flower seed company and farm, delivers a comprehensive and enthusiastic guide to planting, growing, harvesting, and displaying dahlias. She begins with a detailed overview of the flowers and provides a size-based classification system that ranges from the "cutest variety" of pompons at two inches in diameter, to the giants measuring more than 10 inches. She also breaks down the plants' varying shapes (peony, ball, and orchette) and colors (pink, orange, white, and red). Among growing and care advice, Benzakein offers tips on sunlight (direct sun six hours a day is a must), space (three feet on either side), and soil maintenance (soil tests are well worth the trouble, she advises). As for harvesting, the flowers should be cut when they're almost fully open, and gardeners interested in selling their plants should cut long stems, which are better for arranging. Experienced gardeners will appreciate Benzakein's rundown of such advanced techniques as propagation and hybridizing. Anyone in search of a guide to dahlias need look no further. Agent: Leslie Stoker, Stoker Literary. (Mar.)