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This is the first book I reach for when I need to know something about any plant. It has a new edition: "Reader's Digest" New Encyclopedia of Garden Plants & Flowers. An amazing A-Z gardening encyclopaedia that covers over 8000 plants, describing how to identify, grow and propagate them. The book has hundreds of photographs alongside the text, and covers fruit, vegetables, herbs, house plants, flowers, foliage, shrubs and trees. It was one of my first gardening books and has survived many years of constant use. An essential book if you want to enjoy gardening. See the 5 star reviews and buy the book at Amazon UK | |
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Alan Titchmarsh has produced two books from his TV series. These book are combined into a single book called The Complete How To Be A Gardener. The book has many interesting pectures and stories about the gardens and techniques that will remind you of the series, or show show you what you missed! Available here at a much reduced price. | |
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The Small Garden Encyclopedia. Many new gardening ideas and techniques developed over the past few years are shown in step by step pictures in this book as well as the more established ones. The book describes how to create vertical gardens, a herb garden, small ponds and water features as well as growing fruit and flowers on a patio or balcony. The book contains over 1000 instructional and step-by-step photographs and over 500 photos of plants. Buy the book at Amazon UK | |
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The Complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit combines the knowledge and experience of three expert gardeners. The book covers selecting, cultivating and harvesting plants that produce food from your garden. Most importantly this book describes different ways of cooking the produce and eating it raw. Buy the book from Amazon UK |
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The Royal Horticulture Society Pests and Diseases is a practical handbook for identifying, treating and preventing pests and diseases in plants and around the garden. To help identify problems, the book has over 300 close-up, colour photographs. The book has a responsible approach to pests and diseases explaining how problems can be solved, not necessarily by forking out a lot of money on pesticides that can kill friendly wildlife, but by organic controls. The book also gives valuable advice on preventing the conditions that cause pests and diseases, thereby avoiding the costs of curing them. See the 5 star reviews, look inside the book and buy it at Amazon UK |
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Now into its fourth edition(April 2001), The Complete Book of the Greenhouse is a invaluable and comprehensive book on greenhouse gardening. It covers design, construction and maintenance of greenhouses. It describes how to grow fruit, vegatable and flowers in the greenhouse, and deal with pests and disorder, as well as propagating plants. A well proven and established source of ideas and techniques for greenhouse gardening. Buy the book from Amazon UK |
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Water Gardening. Guide to making your own water garden and how to add many different features. Shows different types of water gardens with excellent step by step colour photographs and drawings showing how to create them. The book is available at a reduce price from Amazon UK |
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Gardeners' Question Time has the answers to all of the questions your are most likely to ask. The source of the questions and answers comes from over 50 years of programmes presented on BBC Radio 4's weekly Gardeners' Question Time. The books is well illustrated with excellent diagrams and photographs. I found the book easy to read and the facts presented in a straightforward way. I enjoyed the interesting little stories, some very amusing and practical, given to illustrate the answers to some common problems that are often difficult to solve. The book covers all garden and house plants as well as pest and diseases, and garden desgin. Buy the book in Paperback or in Hardback. | |
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A Handbook for Garden Designers shows you how to plan and hand draw the layout for a garden. The drawings and illustrations are suberb and marvellous to look at. The colourful, creative hand drawings in the book look like works of art themselves. The book is available at a reduce price from Amazon UK |
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The RHS Book of Planting Schemes edited by Geoff Stebbings. With over 60 planting schemes, ranging from sunny alpine beds to wildlife ponds, there is something for every gardener in this book whether their garden is large or small. Each scheme has clear colour illustrations and planting list with helpful information on alternative plants so adaptations can easily be made. Supported by a comprehensive plant directory. The book is available at a reduced price from Amazon UK |
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When your "Reader's Digest" New Encyclopedia of Garden Plants & Flowers starts showing wear through over use, then it is time to buy the Royal Horticulture Society's (RHS) Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers. It's a larger, heavier book with glossier photos. It's just as informative, but seeing additional photographs of various plants and flowers as well as being written by different authors, makes progressing to this book exciting. The books complement each other superbly. |
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The Royal Horticultural Society Fruit & Vegetable Gardening book by Michael Pollock shows you how to produce a bountiful harvest of fruit and vegetables from your garden or allotment however big or small. It covers all aspects of sowing seeds, propagating, growing, harvesting as well as describing and illustrating the many different types and varieties of fruit and vegetables. The book also covers control of pest and diseases. Buy the book at a discounted price on Amazon UK | |
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