After months of very tedious work of translating this
book from English to German, Bob Walsh with help from a small circle of close
friends completed this project. Bob Walsh very excitedly announces the release
of Plumeria - Frangipani Pflegeratgeber Für Alle Klimazonen.
The book gives German speaking plumeria loving gardeners
in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries throughout Europe and
around the world the opportunity to read
and enjoy this popular easy to follow step-by-step plumeria care guide in their mother tongue.
Germans and Europeans have long been known for their
gardening and love of flowers. For centuries gardeners throughout Germany,
Austria, Switzerland and other parts of Europe have decorated their homes each
year with picturesque window boxes filled with colorful flowers. These pictures
fill the pages of travel magazines that offer European tours and travel itineraries.
As the Roman Empire spread over Europe these gardening
ideas of plants and flowers went with them. In the Age of Discovery in the 1600s
more enthusiasm and excitement for gardening came from the introduction of new
plants that were brought back from the New World, the South Pacific and Far
East.
Today’s Age of Discovery from the latter half of the 20th
century through the present 21st
century with international air travel has once again made an impact with
gardening, plants and flowers throughout Europe. German speaking world
travelers from Europe have personally discovered and encountered frangipani,
plumeria plants and flowers on their trips to tropical and subtropical regions
of the world. Like many others gardeners
in the world, they, too, have fallen in love with them.
Bob Walsh’s original book, How to Grow Plumeria - Frangipani Anytime Anywhere!, broke new ground and old
stereotypes. It was the first documented
book written by a plumeria gardener who lived and gardened in a temperate
growing zone, and not in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world,
such as Richard and Mary Helen Eggenberger in India, Jim Little on Hawaii and
Elizabeth Thornton in Texas, who are well known authors in the plumeria world.
Bob Walsh is now able to explain and discuss in German
the many issues of growing frangipani, plumerias, in the temperate zones of the
world, such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and most of Europe in his newest
translated book, Plumeria – Frangipani Pflegeratgeber Für Alle Klimazonen. These issues are very different from the issues that
plumeria gardeners face who grow these very beautiful plants and flowers in
their natural habitat of the tropics.
Now German speaking gardeners can read for themselves, in
their mother tongue, this easy to follow step by step frangipani, Plumeria Care
guide that breaks the old traditional belief that plumerias cannot be grown
outside the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Living in Chicago, growing zone 5, Bob Walsh outlines
everything a plumeria gardener needs to be successful in growing frangipani, plumerias
in temperate zones around the world from Alaska to Auckland, New Zealand,
including Hamburg, Innsbruck and Zurich.
Bob Walsh’s very informative plumeria care, guide also teaches
his European counterparts how to grow frangipani, plumerias indoors and year
round breaking the old belief that the plumeria growing season begins in Spring
and ends in the Fall every year. Growing frangipani indoors through the coldest
months of the year is a great way to avoid the winter blues and extremely
exciting to see a newly grown bud opening up into a beautiful plumeria flower
in January and February.
Plumeria – Frangipani Pflegeratgeber Für Alle Klimazonen is easy to read and follow. Even though the book’s focus is on growing
Frangipani, plumerias, the information found in this book can be easily applied
to many other plants.
The release of 'Plumeria – Frangipani Pflegeratgeber Für Alle Klimazonen' coincides with the ongoing 8th
Annual International Garden Show Hamburg which opened on April 26, 2013 and
runs through October 13, 2013 with their motto, Around the World in 80 Gardens.
This “Around the World” theme also reflects the purpose of this plumeria care
guide and the sales of the English version which has already gained worldwide
attention and is now extended to the German speaking world. With more and more gardeners finding and
falling in love with these tropical plants and
flowers this is the exact practical reference guide they want to have in
their gardening library whether they speak English or German.
Copyright © Bob Walsh 2013