Product Description: The Cyclamen is a literary and artistic darling, decorating ceramics, pottery, and jewelry, and found in botanical art references dating back to the first century. It is also a favorite of gardeners, growers, and botanists due to its extraordinary capacity for variation, in colors, shapes, fragrances, and flowering periods...read more

Product Description: Update to include new techniques and to reflect current trends — such as the growing popularity of green roofs and crevice gardening — the Encyclopedia of Gardening guides readers expertly through the latest gardening techniques, details information on garden planning and design, covers useful tools and materials, and features an extensive glossary of plants, including trees, shrubs, and perennials...read more

Product Description: From the esteemed Royal Horticultural Society comes the definitive step-by-step guide to selecting and building a wide range of garden structures. It provides all the key information needed for planning the design and constructing a garden, including a look at the available materials and selecting the sizes, typical quantities, and optimal qualities needed...read more

Product Description: Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, enjoys a long and distinguished tradition of plant exploration and introduction, dating back to the foundation of its arboretum in 1798. Since the 1950s, 50 such plant-hunting expeditions have taken place on six continents and in some 50 countries...read more

Updated to encompass hundreds of new photographs and entries, a comprehensive reference for the American gardener includes detailed, cross-referenced descriptions of more than fifteen thousand plants, along with cultivation data, for all the major regions of North America.

Thoroughly revised and updated, a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide for amateur or professional horticulturists provides authoritative advice on garden creation and maintenance and includes hundreds of step-by-step photographic sequences of cultivation techniques for all kinds of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables.

Product Description: This definitive guide explains every technique you need to keep your garden looking gorgeous year-round. Topics include soil management, propagating seeds, plant and lawn care, container gardening, pruning shrubs, and transplanting...read more

A comprehensive guide to North American horticulture encompasses more than eight thousand plant references, 4,250 full-color captioned photographs, and useful advice on topics ranging from plant identification and selection to cultivation and pest control. 35,000 first printing.

Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. This text provides the techniques for pruning roses, trees, shrubs, climbing and wall plants, vines, and fruit trees, whose growth benefits from careful and systematic pruning. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Filled with specially commissioned photographs and detailed 'before-and-after' illustrations, this guide offers all the information gardeners need to maintain attractive, well-pruned, and trained trees, shrubs, climbers, roses, and fruit.

A respected gardening authority describes three hundred popular garden plants, as well as more than two hundred alternative selections--from trees to bulbs and greenhouse plants--along with tips on plant care, cultivation methods, and gardening techniques. 15,000 first printing.

A comprehensive guide for amateur or professional horticulturists provides advice on garden creation and maintenance and includes hundreds of step-by-step photographic sequences of cultivation techniques for all kinds of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. 50,000 first printing.

Four thousand species and varieties of plants--their flower and leaf shape, growing requirements, zone ranges, seasons, and more--enrich this essential gardening source

Discusses the basics of gardening and offers advice on the proper care and cultivation of vegetables, fruits, lawns, and flowers