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Bulb

by Anna Pavord

Hardcover, 544 pages, Octopus Pub Group, List Price: $39.99 |

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Title: Bulb
Author: Anna Pavord

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The author selects approximately six hundred of her favorite bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes and presents them in a highly illustrated, alphabetical collection from acis to zigadenus, providing information on flowering size, height, planting depth, soil requirements, and climatic conditions.

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December 16, 2009 • Weighing in at a fat four pounds, Bulb is the ultimate eye candy, just as the author intended. "Wherever the pages fell open," writes Anna Pavord, "I wanted the bulbs to sing out: 'You've got to have me. You can't live without me.'"