This large and dramatically illustrated guide provides a wealth of advice for those who love flowers, including buying plants and cut flowers, growing them, cutting blooms from your own garden, caring for them, and arranging them. From Agapanthus to Zinnia, the book features page-filling closeups of each flower, along with scientific and popular names and varieties, available colors, scent, characteristics of freshness, and relative cost, making it an engaging combination of beauty and practicality.