The Essential Guide to Bulbs is a beautifully photographed tutorial guide to selecting and using flowering bulbs by gardening expert Jenny Rose Carey. Released 14th Oct 2025 by Hachette on their Timber Press imprint, it's 348 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.
This is a huge, encyclopedic, and very well arranged primer on bulbs and how to grow and deploy them successfully in a wide variety of situations, containers, beds, and naturalized. The author's writing voice is unforced and layman accessible, but where the book really shines is the photography. It's as much an inspiration book to pore over during garden planning as it is theory/tutorial.
Correct binomial (Latin) nomenclature is used throughout, alongside common names where applicable. Specific varieties are named in the text. It's unusual to find gardening books which have something for every level of expertise, and this one does deliver, from the beginner trying to select some daffodils for a spring container by an entryway to the professional gardener selecting for large installations or customers.
Five stars. This would be an excellent choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, smallholders, gardening/community garden/allotment libraries, and similar uses.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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