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Whether you need information on your half-hardy annuals, perennials, herbaceous borders, tender tropicals or bedding plants, this section offers all the information you'll need.
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A really handy, easy-to-use reference book. Covers all the bulbs most gardeners are likely to use, with clear explanations of where to use them, how deep to plant them. Well-illustrated.
Recommended.
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Visitors flock to Great Dixter in Sussex to see Christopher Lloyd's exuberant plantings, which provide some of the most exciting and adventurous plantings around. 'A continuous thread of successions, one highly being immediately taken over by the next, is what we are after. My object in this book is to suggest how to plant so as to achieve this… At no point, at least from spring (early April for us) to autumn (end of October), but not forgetting the winter, shall there be a lapse, a hole in the armoury.'
And even for those of us who lack an abundance of mixed borders, there is plenty here to inspire and tempt us. Lavishly photographed by Jonathan Buckley, Succession Planting provides that rare beast - the combination of brilliant writer and gardener to wake us up with bursts of colour.
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Flowers is part of Collins useful new series Practical Gardener. Clear, well-illustrated and good value, these books provide a valuable addition to the gardening shelf.
The book is divided into three main parts. The opening chapters guide you through garden practice, from assessing your site, through planting and general care, to propagation techniques. A comprehensive plant directory follows, with individual entries on over 200 of the most commonly available flowers, listed in alphabetical order, and covering many different styles of gardening and uses. This section is followed by pages devoted to bambooks, tree ferns and palms, and conifers. The final section covers plant problems, with troubleshooting pages allowing you to diagnose the likely cause of any problems, along with advice on how to solve them.
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Flowering Shrubs is part of Collins useful new series Practical Gardener. Clear, well-illustrated and good value, these books provide a valuable addition to the gardening shelf.
The book is divided into three main parts. The opening chapters guide you through garden practice, from assessing your site, through general care and pruning to propagation techniques. A comprehensive plant directory follows, with individual entries on over 125 of the most commonly available flowering shrubs, listed in alphabetical order, and covering many different styles of gardening and uses. This section is followed by pages devoted to heaths, heathers and ling, dwarf conifers and architectural plants. The final section covers plant problems, with troubleshooting pages allowing you to diagnose the likely cause of any problems, along with advice on how to solve them.
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One of Dr Hessayon's classic and evergreen Expert bestsellers. Slightly old-fashioned, but dependable. Clearly laid out in his inimitable style with concise, dogmatic and accurate information.
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One of Dr Hessayon's classic and evergreen Expert bestsellers. Slightly old-fashioned, but dependable. Clearly laid out in his inimitable style with concise, dogmatic and accurate information.
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One of Dr Hessayon's classic and evergreen Expert bestsellers. Slightly old-fashioned, but dependable. Clearly laid out in his inimitable style with concise, dogmatic and accurate information.
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The new expanded edition of The Well-tended Perennial Garden describes the essential practices of perennial care in detail, such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding and deadleafing to maintain each plant in good condition.
The book includes the following sections:- Basic Perennial Garden Planting and Maintenance- Pruning Perennials- Encyclopedia of Perennials- Perennial Maintenance Journal - for notes about your own garden- and the Appendices including plant lists.
All practices are thoroughly explained and illustrated. Unfortunately the section "Encyclopedia" is a bit misleading since this book is clearly designed for the American market where more and more German perennial breeds are used. In other words: you won't find some of the English classics. The same can be said about the chapter with the pests and diseases.
Is this a book for beginners? For very keen ones: yes, others might be a bit overwhelmed and should get back to it after getting a first grasp of gardening. If you are not bothered by the reservations above: get this book, it will be very useful!
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A detailed guide to container growing, extending your flowering area in the conservatory, greenhouse, terrace or even the garden. Rod Leeds, rock and alpine specialist, explains how to plan and prepare for a year of flowering bulbs, how to store the bulbs and get them ready, how to protect them, propagate them… in fact everything needed for plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners.
Too detailed for the general reader, but an excellent addition for the more serious container gardener.
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Following in the footsteps of Karen Platt's book, Silver Lining, Gardner and Bussolini have produced an elegant book on using silvery plants in the garden. A history of people and gardens using predominantly silvery planting is followed by a section on design tips and then an A-Z encyclopaedia. Very full descriptions are supplied, but more pictures would have been more use.
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This book could almost have been called Colchicum, Crocus and Cyclamen, but Rood Leeds has defined autumn broadly, to include a selection of snowdrops and narcissi. Nicely illustrated and described, the book makes a pleasant addition to the reference shelf.
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This book falls between the amateur and the professional. The very first picture, for instance, shows a commercial hyacinth grower "rogueing bulbs in the field", a man in workaday wellies and anorak leaning over a field of straggly plants picking out a purple one in a pink row, which seems a strange choice to cross the bridge and "help to demystify the subject for gardeners." 'Rogueing is not a word that appears in a general spell-check, yet neither is it included in the glossary or the index.
Although the book aims to be 'a gardeners' guide, it assumes a great deal of previous knowledge - if you don't know what a tepal or a tazzetta is (or did once, but have forgotten) you may have to look elsewhere to find out, although you will need to know in order to get the most from this book. And the lists of plants are not accompanied by enough photos to make the lists worthwhile.
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One of Dr Hessayon's classic and evergreen Expert bestsellers. Slightly old-fashioned, but dependable. Clearly laid out in his inimitable style with concise, dogmatic and accurate information.
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Judy Glattstein believes one should plant bulbs according to their natural habitats - an obvious extension of the right plant, right place theory that most of us are unable to follow so purely, since we lack large enough gardens.
Bulbs for Garden Habitats includes much of value, but is too American-based to be really useful in the UK.
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