The complete guide to choosing, fitting and maintaining all the non-living things in the garden, with step-by-step advice on everything you could build or use in your garden: Walls, fences and gates. Paths, drives and patios. Ponds, bird baths and bird tables. Pergolas and garden lighting. Barbecues[...]
Flowering shrubs are one of the most important features in your garden. The Flowering Shrub Expert contains a complete illustrated A-Z of flowering shrubs and offers advice on: How to get year-round colour in your garden. Where to buy your shrubs. Planting and pruning. How to mulch, feed and water y[...]
Provides instructions for installing and equiping greenhouses and discusses plants suited for growing under glass, the care of both the plants and the equipment, diseases and pests that can infect greenhouses, and related topics[...]
The Bulb Expert shows you how to get the very best from your bulbs, both indoors and outdoors.From the ever-popular daffodils, tulips and crocuses to more unusual varieties, it offers tips on: Choosing the right bulbs, with a complete A-Z. How to plant, feed and grow bulbs. Using bulbs in containers[...]
There can be no fresher tasting vegetables or herbs than the ones you've grown yourself. Whether you are a first-time allotment holder or an 'old-hand', the Vegetable & Herb Expert will shown you: How to get started. Where to grow your vegetables, and how. What types and varieties to grow. Looking [...]
Roses are some of the most popular plants in the garden. Whether you plant them for colour, bloom or fragrance, The Rose Expert gives you all you need to know to get the most from your roses, with information on: Different types available. Choosing and buying. How and where to plant. How to mulch, t[...]
The term 'evergreen' covers a huge variety of plants: bulbs, grasses, ferns, shrubs and conifers.What they have in common is that they will all give all-year-round interest to your garden.The Evergreen Expert will show you how to: Choose the right evergreen for your garden. Buy and care for your pla[...]
The House Plant Expert has been the indoor gardening bible since its introduction in 1960.Over the years it has become the best-selling plant book the world has ever known and there are now more than 14,000,000 copies in print.Updates have appeared at regular intervals, and now at last the long-awai[...]
Helps the gardener to identify problem and to show whether preventative measures and treatments are necessary. From lawn weeds to pet problems, water shortages to fungi, this book gives you the information you need to keep your garden healthy.[...]
Orchids were once just for the wealthy and the skilled greenhouse grower, but now they are for everyone.All too often they are thrown away after flowering - The Orchid Expert shows you how to make them permanent members of your family, with information on: The way to ensure repeat flowering. What to[...]
This is the essential guide to growing all types of fruit. Everything you need to know about: choosing the best apples, pears and plums for your garden; planting and caring for tree fruit; buying and growing soft fruit; growing fruit in containers; getting the best taste from your fruit; how to prun[...]
256 pages (all in color), 7 1/4 x 9 3/8. REISSUE.