A Symphony of Color

by Robert Scheyer

Overview

After an occupational lifetime spent growing plants for people on their property, I have heard one common refrain. It goes something like this:

"I'd like to see blooms, color and interest on my property from early spring until frost."

The people have spoken.

The book "A Symphony of Color" poetically describes blooming plants and their seasons as if it were a yearlong symphony.

The book goes on to detail what will plants throughout the year will enhance a homeowner's property and what will detract from it.

These are plants that, in my 40-plus-years of experience, grow well on people's properties throughout the year.

This is a homeowner's first step in ultimately achieving their goal: color and interest on their property from early spring until Jack Frost and yes, there is even some "winter interest" plant suggestions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149283941
Publisher:	Capitol Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

From the Author: I always wanted to be a scientist. Mostly because job security was like an "issue." Writing was not going to get anyone any kind of job security, at least not right away. When I was young, "right away" was more my way of thinking.

The problem with science, as it turned out, was that math was involved. Specifically, any math. I'd say calculus, but that isn't really even math. That's like a foreign language with archaic symbols and I was never very good at those either.

So, in order to graduate from college, having come very close to flunking out because of the aforementioned propensity for knuckleheaded numbering, I took up journalism.

I'd been taking all these creative writing courses and that was what kept me in college. So, reason and finances said, "If you want to graduate, journalism may be the ticket." There is, as it turns out, very little math.

So, I graduated from a nationally ranked, 4th-rated journalism school by petitioning the J-school's faculty. They'd had had enough of me and let me out.

After college, I took up freelance writing and freelance having a family. I did okay at both pretty much except for the starving artist problem and eventually took up a real occupation: property care/landscaper.

Being tied to a desk really wasn't my cup of joe anyway, but alas, time and fortune have caught up with me. Tied to a desk is better than tied to a rototiller. That, and I now have extensive knowledge on growing plants.

Thus, you have my "A Symphony of Color--How to Grow Flowering Melodies In All Seasons."

Editorial Reviews

A Symphony of Color is a guide on how to strike the right note in the garden. The idea behind this book is that just as a conductor gets all the instruments to play at the right time in an orchestra, so too can a gardener get the right plants to bloom at the right time to have year-long colour in the garden. Scheyer is obviously an experienced gardener with years of experience working for different clients and his passion for having a showcase garden shines through the book. It is a narrative of

Amazon - Rowena Wiseman