Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - Taylor's Guide to Annuals by Barbara Ellis

Taylor's Guide to Annuals
by Barbara Ellis

Based on Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, this series is the most comprehensive collection of plant and gardening information available. Thousands of plants and flowers are covered in an authoritative database of North American gardening.

Each year American home-owners spend millions of dollars on new plants and flowers for their gardens, as well as houseplants. They also buy tools, fertilizers, herbicides and the many other items that go with gardening. The Taylor’s Guide series has long been a stand-by for serious gardeners looking for tips on selecting the right plant for the right place and practical advice for growing and using each variety.

***Only Taylor's Guide to Annuals is currently available in SGML, other Gardening Guides may be converted to an electronic format upon request

Key Features:

• A step-by-step planting guide for hundreds of flowers, trees, shrubs, groundcover, and herbs.
• Specific information on growing annuals in different regions
• Plant selection chart guides gardeners based on seasonality, climactic zone, size and color.
• Searchable by common name as well as scientific genus and species.

Technical Specs:

Product	Available Electronic Version(s)	File Size	Images, File Types & Sizes	Other Associated Files
Taylor's Guide to Annuals	SGML	499 KB	NONE	DTD

Sample Entry:

Campanula
Bellflower family
Campanulaceae
Kam-pan'you-la.

The bellflowers comprise known species, over 2 dozen of which are cultivated for their handsome bloom.

Description
Basal leaves often unlike the stem leaves, the latter alternate. Flowers typically bell-shaped, showy, mostly blue or white, the calyx persistent on the egg-shaped pod that opens by a terminal pore in some, by valves in others.

How to Grow
Can be manipulated to bloom as a hardy annual or, in mild-winter climates, it can be direct seeded in fall for bloom the following late spring. Protect with a mulch of evergreen branches until the danger of hard frost is past. Prefers cool weather.

Medium
Canterbury Bells. 2-4 ft. (60-120 cm) high. Flowers violet-blue, solitary or in loose racemes, 1 in. (2.5 cm) wide and 2 in. (5 cm) long. S. Europe. A wide variety of forms are available. Blooms 6 months after germination. Biennial grown as a hardy annual.