Here are a few book suggestions to get your flowers blooming just in time for summer:

Complete home gardening: growing secrets and techniques for gardeners by Miranda Smith

Ortho's all about successful perennial gardening by written by Janet Macunovich

Green flowers: unexpected beauty for the garden, container, or vase by Alison Hoblyn; photographs by Marie O'Hara

Care-free plants: a guide to growing the 200 hardiest, low-maintenance, long-lived beauties