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This pocket-sized plant guide lists over 3000 plants that have received the Society's Award of Garden Merit, given only to outstanding plants that are deemed to be excellent for garden use, that are easy to grow, reliably healthy and with outstanding ornamental or productive qualities. There is a quick reference listing which recommends a range of ...
"A fabulous work. Highly recommended., "Library Journal" Orchids were brought to Europe from the tropics and subtropics beginning in the 17th century, and by 1839, English plant nurseries were selling 1,600 different kinds of the flower. Long prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom ...
Gardeners will be astounded to discover how little of their craft is new. Most of the methods used today hark back to ancient civilizations and the gardens of Egypt, Rome, and Persia. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and line drawings, "An Illustrated History of Gardening" is an authoritative tome tracing the history and development of ...
Part of a series, this portable illustrated pocket guide to perennials contains over 1000 plant portraits. The plants are arranged by flower colour and season of interest, for ease of use by every enthusiastic gardener. The main section of the book is the plant catalogue which begins with a short introduction on garden planning that explores the ...
This work contains full-colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide concise practical information and advice. It is perfect for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results.
Providing step-by-step instructions to all aspects of propagating greenhouse and garden plants and shrubs, this text includes coverage of seeds, roots, layering, stems, modified stems and grafting.
This work contains full-colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide concise practical information and advice. It is perfect for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results.
This work contains full-colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide concise practical information and advice. It is perfect for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results.
This practical guide matches seeds to their specific requirements of light, water, air and temperature in order to ensure successful germination. Further chapters describe how to grow alpine varieties, aquatic plants, trees, shrubs and vegetables from seed.
In addition to information on designing, building, planting, stocking and maintaining water gardens, this guide contains many design ideas and an illustrated plant catalogue of 150 aquatic and moisture-loving plants. Photographs and artworks illustrate the horticultural and building techniques needed to create pools, streams, canals and fountains ...
An A-Z of gardening information. This reference pays particular attention to easily available plants, offers horticultural advice, contains tables of the big plant families, provides descriptions of pests and diseases, and includes articles about organic and peat-free gardening.
Illustrated with step-by-step artworks, this guide dispels myths about organic gardening and explains all aspects of organic garden management, including the planning of an organically-balanced environment, soil preparation, pests and diseases, weed control, crop care and cultivation, and also contains a year-round checklist for instant season-by ...
This text provides the techniques needed for growing both popular and more unusual vegetables, including salad greens, brassicas, roots and tubers, onions and herbs. It treats each vegetable concisely with guidance on preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, tending, harvesting and storage.
Artists and writers alike have always been drawn to flowers. As sources of inspiration or simple enjoyment, flowers have been responsible over the centuries for many of our greatest and most memorable works of art, works that echo and preserve - in words and in line and colour - the particular beauties of their subjects. This volume brings ...
From the Royal Horticultural Society comes a fascinating compendium of poetry about gardens and garden plants, themes that have provided inspiration for poets since the dawn of time. The poems span many centuries and include the work of such great writers as William Wordsworth, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare as well as lesser-known hands. ...
The latest in "Frances Lincoln's" series of "RHS Treasuries", this charming anthology brings together a wealth of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from the Roman natural historian Pliny and the Chinese poet Po Chu-I, to Sir Walter Scott and Robert Fortune, to twentieth-century poets such as Seamus Heaney. The poems and extracts are ...
This guide to ponds and water features contains full colour images and step-by-step instructions, providing the beginner or busy gardener practical information and advice. Topics featured include: choosing a site; safety and electricity in the garden; mini-pools and container ponds; mounting a wall fountain; creating moving water features; plants ...
With space to record your garden's developing pleasures over five years, this record book is the perfect gift for any gardener. "The Gardener's Five Year Record Book" provides a central store for all the horticultural notes you will ever need to make, dispensing with those scraps of paper that all gardeners seem to accumulate. The record book's ...
This guide offers practical information and advice to both the beginner and the busy gardener. It contains full colour images and step-by-step instructions to help the reader get results. Topics covered include: flowering and foliage interest throughout the year; choosing and planting; growing perennials in containers; planning colour combinations ...
This photoencyclopaedic guide contains 1000 portraits of annual and biennial plants arranged according to the main characteristics of each, such as size, season of interest, and colour, for ease of selection and identification by enthusiastic gardeners. Popular plant groups, such as heathers, dahlias, tulips and chrysanthemums, are featured in ...
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