★It uses the different climate of the 24 solar terms to guide the typical flowers and plants in the four seasons
★This is an artistic and practical gardening picture book presented in watercolor and ink painting on paper.
★The book is beautifully bounded with a great gift, as if the medicine for the heart and soul.
With ten years of planting experience, the author carefully summed up inseparable relationship between the horticultural planting and solar terms. The book explains the basic maintenance knowledge of a kind of flowers and plants according to each solar term, which is interesting and easy to use. It is helpful for those who are ready to maintain flowers and plants and those who are new to gardening. I hope it can help readers who love flowers and enjoy art.

The book is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is designed for the novice, the universal gardening maintenance method. From the selection of tools and flower implements to the planning and collocation based on solar terms, plant habits, colors, shapes and space requirements, it is easy, interesting and easy to understand. The second chapter focuses on the detailed operation of observing solar terms and planting flowers and plants. Chapter 3 practically demonstrates some simple garden decoration schemes, such as making a garden sign, cement flowerpots, making a house of beneficial insects, and so on.

The author Hua Nongnu (pseudonymous) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, majoring in fashion design. She is a fashion designer, a freelance illustrator, and a gardener and handcraft expert. She is keen to use her brush to record the growing of flowers and the details of life.
Her published books include: Diary of Succulent Sketches, The Flower Woman's Watercolor Feast.
Her creative works include: Hand-painted Map of Chongqing, Hand-painted Map of Yuzhong District, Beibei Hand-painted Map, Hand-drawn Map of Wulong Fairy Mountain, Hand-drawn Map of Chongqing Ciqikou, Chinese Zodiac New Year Picture series.

Chapter One Gardening Secrets
1.1 A Universal Foundation Maintenance
1.1.1 Adapt to local conditions
1.1.2 Soil and fertilizer
1.1.3 Buying
1.2 A handy tool
1.2.1The use of different tools
1.3 The Choice of Three Flowers
1.3.1Flower features and suitable collocation,
1.4 Know How to Plan
1.4.1 The relationship between flowers and seasons and solar terms
1.4.2 Plant habits
1.4.3 Plant color and shape
1.4.4 Space requirements
1.4.5 Questions for Beginners
Chapter Two Perfect Encounter
2.1 Spring
Beginning of spring: Angle of jin
Rainwater: grapes hyacinth
Insects Awaken: saffron crocus
spring equinox: hoya
Qingming: garden columbine
Grain Rain: barbadoslily
2.2 Summer
Beginning of Summer: clematis
Grain Full: Chinese rose
Grain in ear: digitalis
The Summer Solstice: hydrangea
Slight Heat: plumbago auriculata
Great Heat: eustoma grandiflorum
2.3 Autumn
Beginning of Autumn: the autumn chrysanthemum
the Limit of Heat: mint
White Dew: snapdragon
Autumn Equinox: trumpet creeper
Cold Dew: anisodontea capensis
First Frost: lyrata
2.4 Winter
Beginning of Winter: Ficus carica
Light Snow: geranium
Great Snow: heuchera brizoides
Winter Solstice Festival: bougainvillea speetabilis
Slight Cold: cyclamen
Great Cold: arcissi
Chapter three Garden Decoration
3.1 Make a Sign for the Garden
3.2 Build a Nice Tool Wall
3.3 Make a Unique Cement Flowerpot
3.4 Beneficial Insects House
3.5 garden guardian elves
3.6 A Combination Of Hand-Painted Walls And Gardening
Postscript