Blogging in Myrtle Glen

A Cutting Garden For Florida

“Grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your Florida home landscape!”

by Betty Barr Mackey and Monica Moran Brandies

Perfectly organized chapters with detailed description of the plants, seed starting guides, propagating from cuttings and divisions, a guide to planting bulbs, a section on dried flower bouquets and so many more tips and information. 

No Photographs, but drawings of the flowers. I don’t miss them all that much, since this book concentrates on the how to create and keep a cutting garden.  If I want to see pictures, I ask Google. 

What a great book for Central Florida gardeners, and the seasonal planting guide is just perfect!

“Container Gardens for Florida”

Another book I am adding to the blog category ‘Books in my Library’

Container Gardens for Florida by Pamela Crawford

This well-organized book shows different styles of container gardening, lists suppliers for plants and containers and covers the different uses, like container gardening for sun, shade, salt, pool decks, etc.

The large plant profile section has details of the recommended plants sorted in sections, like High Performers, or the top 12 plants for each season.

The detailed instructions are easy to understand, and the many pictures are an endless source of inspiration.

Pamela Crawford’s blog

“Bromeliads for Home and Garden”

The Bromeliad Society of Central Florida had signed copies of Jack Kramer’s book available for sale

Bromeliads for Home and Garden

This book describes the most popular bromeliads readily available to everyone, I recognize many in the book that are growing in Myrtle Glen. With lots of pictures and helpful information this is an easy to use guide to growing bromeliads.

Did you know, the pineapple is a bromeliad?