Offers suggestions on decorating with plants, describes the most popular house plant varieties, and gives advice on watering, feeding, and repotting

Instructs home gardeners on best-bet practices for selecting and caring for a diverse variety of perennial plants, making recommendations for attracting and resisting wildlife, preparing a garden for planting, and overcoming challenges with common pests and diseases.

Using both an organic and more flexible approach to horticulture, a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to vegetable gardening explains how to plant and cultivate more than eighty vegetable varieties, covering everything from selecting plants and preparing the soil to pest control and harvesting, with informative problem-solving sidebars, vegetable variety recommendations, and more. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Courtier, Jane

Everyone loves to be surrounded by plants, but who has the time, energy, and patience needed to cultivate a large, work-intensive garden? Here's a guide for everyone who wants the peace and tranquility of a private retreat without the fuss. Easier to create and tend, patio and courtyard gardens also offer more enjoyment per square foot than other gardens. They are designed for living--eating, entertaining, or simply sitting--not admiring from afar. All you need to know to make these intimate "outdoor rooms" is found in these pages. Learn how to choose and lay the surface. . .pick containers...construct raised beds. . .even add finishing touches such as lighting. And, a comprehensive, fully illustrated plant directory gives a host of ideas for filling your garden with flowers and foliage--and tips to ensure they will thrive. So, relax--the perfect garden retreat is just outside your door.

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Packed with 650 full-color photographs and illustrations, a wide-ranging and handy reference book for readers with limited space for a garden covers garden design and planning, window boxes and container gardens, and more than 150 specialty plants.

Product Description: To keep a garden in peak shape year-round, this book offers techniques, botanical facts, and other inspiring guidance.

Product Description: This work is a portrait in words and contemporary illustrations of the world of the amateur gardener from the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. "Amateur Gardening" was the first magazine to be written for the do-it-yourself owners of small suburban and city gardens...read more

Product Description: This gardening series is written for amateurs by master gardeners with clear, expert advice, boxed features and time-saving tips. This volume presents a gardener's year. Each season's tasks, projects and plants are presented with advice on the activities which the gardener should be carrying out throughout the year This gardening series is wri tten for amateurs by master gardeners with clear, expert advice, boxed features and time-saving tips...read more

Product Description: Deals with all aspects of growing and caring for houseplants - propagation, keeping them healthy, using plants indoors and in conservatories, and their role in the house. Lists of selected popular foliage and flowering plants are included.

Product Description: There is no mystery to organic gardening; it is simply a matter of learning to work with Nature. That is the message of this concise handbook, which explains the importance of moving away from synthetic pesticides towards more natural methods of controlling pest and diseases...read more

Shows how to plan a herb garden, explains how to grow and propagate herbs, and describes uses and care requirements for the most popular herbs