Product Description: The AHS Encyclopaedia of Gardening Techniques is the definitive guide explaining all the essential techniques you are ever likely to need, no matter where in North America you live. It reflects modern best-practice gardening at the American Horticultural Society, the leading US gardening authority...read more

Product Description: Gardeners, like everyone, are too short on time and money to waste either on plants that only look good for a few weeks. You want hardworking, eye-catching plants that provide beauty for multiple seasons. You want powerhouse plants—plants with colorful spring flowers and summer fruits, or summer fruits and fall foliage, or summer flowers, fall foliage and winter stems...read more

Product Description: In this book you'll learn how to prune selectively to admit more light and how to amend soil to increase its moisture retention. You'll also learn about more than 130 plants that accept reduced light and moisture levels-long-blooming woodland gems like epimediums and hellebores, and even lush foliage plants like evergreen ferns and hardy gingers, shrubs, climbers, perennials, ground covers, bulbs, annuals, and perennials- there is an entire palette to help you transform challenging spaces into rich, rewarding gardens...read more

Provides information and suggestions on growing vegetables along with fruit, herbs, and flowers.

Alphabetically organized for easy access, a lavishly illustrated reference encompasses detailed descriptions and full-color portraits of some five thousand perennial plants, representing more than 450 genera, in their natural habitats.

Product Description: From an internationally famous writer on horticulture comes the bible on cultivating small gardens. This reference tackles all the problems faced by those whose big ideas keep colliding with the reality of limited space. It provides a master class on design, hard landscaping, choosing essential plants, growing fruits and vegetables, combating pests and diseases, and other common difficulties...read more

Beautifully illustrated with stunning colour pictures by award-winning photographer Judy White, The Sweet Pea Book is a masterful combination of elegance and practicality - much like the sweet pea itself.

Product Description: An inspiring and comprehensive guide, The Sweet Pea Book is for anyone interested in growing these most exquisite of fragrant flowers and using them in the garden. It covers the colorful history of the sweet pea, provides detailed practical advice on seed raising and cultivation, offers ideas for using the plants effectively in the garden, and discusses dwarf sweet peas for small gardens and patios...read more

This authoritative guide to one of the most popular and evocative of summer flowers includes: a history of sweet peas; classification; descriptions of all available varieties; growing and breeding sweet peas; problems; fragrance; and exhibiting sweet peas.

Thorough illustrated instructions on soil preparation, plant cultivation, and plant care accompany full-color photographs of sample perennial gardening projects, seasonal guidelines, and an A-to-Z directory of more than 750 perennial plants. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Flowers to brighten the dark days of winter are especially valuable in the garden and none are so welcome nor so colourful as the hellebores. This concise, illustrated handbook contains detailed information on all aspects of hellebore care, providing invaluable reference for amateur gardeners and experienced growers alike...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A handbook on growing annuals. It shows and explains how to choose and grow plants raised from seed and demonstrates the many ways to use them in the garden for spring and summer displays. Graham Rice explores the use of annuals in carefully co-ordinated plantings and intimate groups as well as in traditional cottage-style borders, in mixed borders in sun and partial shade, and in containers...read more

Details such plants as irises, hostas, phlox, hepaticas, penstemons, and arums

Thorough illustrated instructions on soil preparation, plant cultivation, and plant care accompany full-color photographs of sample perennial gardening projects, seasonal guidelines, and an A-to-Z directory of more than 750 perennial plants.

Product Description: For each of 13 troublesome situations, the author explains the nature of the problem, prescribes a remedy, and suggests the trees, shrubs, climbers, and perennials to make the best of the situation.

Product Description: Combining three "Wisley Handbooks" in a single volume, this gardening companion should be a useful illustrated reference work. The books incorporated in the volume are "Herbaceous Perennials", "Bedding Plants" and "Fragrant and Aromatic Plants".

Product Description: Bedding plants are essentially those raised and grown in one place and then planted out in an other - the flower bed - for a single season display. After flowering they are discarded and replaced by something else. This book describes all the popular bedding plants in detail and shows how to raise, propagate and plant them...read more

Two master horticulturalists offer practical advice on how to raise beautiful annual and perennial plants from seed, with tips on planting, cultivation, the characteristics of various plants, landscaping, and more.

Product Description: This handbook for practical gardeners includes information for those with little or no gardening knowledge but also as a plant reference for more experienced gardeners. Written simply and with enthusiasm by a gardener, this book includes ideas for planning your own small garden, improving your existing garden, trees for shade and elegance, shrubs for year-round colour, flowers for every day, planting for balconies and patios, how to make and plant tubs and window-boxes, themes and specialty gardens, fruit and vegetable gardens, tools and techniques, garden craft and pests and possible problems for the small garden...read more