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- Gardening Shows. The best shows in the country, and how to buy tickets.
- Bestsellers. Our most popular gardening books on all subjects.
- Biographies and philosophy. Book on the personalities that have shaped our attitudes to our gardens over the centuries.
- Gardening Art. Books, prints and illustrations of flowers and plants.
- Botany. Books on botany.
- Children's gardening books. Gardening is a great hobby for kids, gets them outdoors and teaches them about the birds and the bees.
- DIY. Books for determined garden hobbyists.
- Flowers. Everything you need to know about selecting, growing and keeping flowers disease-free is contained here.
- Flower arranging. Not the most dynamic of hobbies, but if you are looking for a book on flower arranging, you'll find it here.
- Garden design. Aha, now we are getting to the interesting stuff. All the basics are here, as well as more advanced garden design books.
- General. If you only own one or two gardening books, they should be the sort you will find recommended here.
- Herbs and healing. Over the millennia, herbs and plants have been used for medicinal purposes.
- History. These books cover the history of gardening, and describe some of the most historic gardens in the world.
- House plants. There's more to house-plants than the odd ficus or rubber plant.
- Hydroponics. There has been a recent surge in interest in hydroponics. Of course it might be because you can grow cannabis hydroponically, but it might not.
- Kitchen gardens. Munch, munch, munch. What could be better than eating a lettuce and tomato salad from your own garden?
- Lawns. Is your lawn a lush green billiard-table affair, or is it undulating, tussocky, mole-infested, mossy and clover-ridden?
- Garden-related novels and poems. Gardens form the backdrop to many fine novels, or at least scenes from novels.
- Organic gardening. Oh, trendy, trendy, trendy. Organic gardening sounds great in theory, but what do you do when the great blue fungus-chaffer invades your hollihocks?
- Plant guides. What to plant, where and when to plant it. All the answers, even to questions you didn't know you were supposed to ask.
- General Guides to Plant Selection
- Bamboos and Grasses
- Begonias
- Camellias
- Campanulas
- Clematis
- Cyclamen
- Dahlias
- Daphnes
- Euphorbias
- Exotic Plants
- Ferns
- Fuchsias
- Geraniums
- Grasses
- Hebes
- Hellebores
- Hydrangeas
- Irises
- Lavender
- Lawns
- Orchids
- Pelargoniums
- Poppies
- Primula
- Pulmonarias
- Roses
- Salvias (Flowering Sages)
- Sweet Peas
- Trees and Shrubs
- Tulips
- Violets
- Problem gardens. It can be a frustrating business reading gardening books, because too many of them seem to assume that every garden is a paradise in miniature. But what happens if your garden, or part of it, is too wet, too dry, too acidic, too alkaline etc?
- Gardening Textbooks. The basics - covered in comprehensive detail.
- Trees. OK, so not everyone has a garden big enough to grow trees in. But if you do, you'll need information: how to look after trees, how to pollard them, how to find a tree surgeon etc.
- Water features and ponds. Bubble, tinkle, gush, drip. What better way to liven up a garden than by adding a water feature or a pond?
- Gardening around the world. From Abingdon to Zanzibar, gardens around the world have their own, special flavour.
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