Discovering Annuals - Softcover

... a rollicking style which makes a good read of an attractive and sound manual (Financial Times)

... as much about rediscovering annuals ... and rehabilitating this large and versatile group of plants within current gardening trends ... (House & Garden)

a great deal of helpful advice based on personal experience and plentiful colour pictures with interesting combinations ... all in all this is a thoroughly lively and informative book (Christopher Lloyd Country Life)

Annuals - plants grown from seed - have four outstanding qualities that will appeal to any gardener: they're colourful; they're incredibly varied; the best are among the most elegant of plants; and they all give quick results, some flowering just 8 weeks after sowing.
Graham Rice selects the very best of the traditional varieties of annuals and the finest of the modern introductions. His co-ordinated planting schemes suggest imaginative combinations to achieve colourful effects in a range of ways: intimate groups; traditional cottage-style borders; mixed borders in sun and partial shade; and container planting.
With advice on planting, propagation and care, this is a fresh and lively approach to growing annuals, a book that dispels the unfashionable image that has hampered these plants for so long. Discovering Annuals reveals annuals as key plants for creative gardeners.