A bountiful garden is easy to create, and gardeners can save big by choosing plants that grow quickly and spread vigorously. The fragrant stems and dusty-blue flower spikes of anise hyssop will pop up throughout the garden when the plant goes to seed. A cascade of golden Japanese forest grass is a fast but well-contained spreader. And when you add frost-tender plants to the mix, you'll open the door to an even wider world of possibilities. This book...

Becoming a green thumb of everything from flowers, fruit, herbs, to vegetables, succulents and exotic plants with this guide. The book is divided into chapters of seed saving, germination, growth, to becoming healthy and strong to bearing fruit, offering effective and fail-safe techniques at every stage. An appendix lists growth chart of 200 plants.