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Late Summer Flowers

Marina Christopher
Photos by Steven Wooster
Frances Lincoln
Distributed by Bookwise
$NZ69.95

MOST gardeners know the despair of finding spring's pride and joy fade, once the reality of late summer's harshness bites.

Here is a comrpehensive handbook with the best-flowering late flowering perennials, and a few annual and biennials thrown in.

There's detailed discussion on suitable flower families, such as daisies, and some tricks to persuade early flowering species to delay their show - or better still to repeat it in late summer or early autumn.

A worthwhile reference book.

Reproduced with permission from the former Weekend Gardener magazine. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the RNZIH