D. G. Hessayon

"The House Plant Expert is the best-selling book on house plants, with complete coverage of all major types of house plant, with advice on how to keep your plants healthy, how to display your plants, dealing with pests & problems - even how to get more house plants for free. If you keep house plants (and who doesn't) you'll need this book!"

The House Plant Expert

This updated edition contains new chapters on "baby" vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.

The New Vegetable & Herb Expert

The Must-Have Sequel to the World's Bestselling House Plant Book (Expert)

The House Plant Expert Book Two

An abundance of full-color photos and illustrations offers inspiration by showcasing successful arrangements, as well as providing visual instructions to complement the helpful, reader-friendly text. Detailed listings offer hundreds of suggestions for plants that will thrive.

The Container Expert

"Growing your own food has become one of the nation s most popular pastimes in 2008 sales of vegetable seeds exceeded sales of flower seeds for the first time.The Vegetable & Herb Expert is the UK s best-selling gardening book and has been for the last decade.But how do you remember what happened when next year s growing season comes round? The Vegetable Notebook is the ideal companion to the world s best-selling grow-your-own book.It begins by helping you choose and care for your plants, and ends by providing a permanent record of your growing year.With sections for the gardener to fill in showing varieties grown, when they were planted and what happened (and how it tasted), it s just the thing to turn to when you need to start afresh next year. he Vegetable Jotter and its sister the Plotter dominated the vegetable book world in the 1970s and early 1980s more than 2.5 million were sold.Now completely updated with the latest seed lists and pest control measures, The Vegetable Notebook i"

The Expert Vegetable Notebook

A Complete Guide Ti Growing and Preparing Vegetables Written in the Best-selling 'Expert' Style

With this latest addition to the Expert series, readers get the information needed to choose the plants that best suit their garden's fertility and available space.

The Evergreen Expert

Judith Wills

Shows the gardeners what to do with the vegetables and fruits described in the Vegetable & Herb Expert, Fruit Expert and Greenhouse Expert. This book offers instructions ranging from basic methods of preparation to classic recipes.

How to Cook Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, Herbs and Weeds

Garden to Kitchen Expert

If you ever longed to learn about plants you may never be able to grow, and to discover gardens you may never be able to visit, then here is your bedside companion. Learn how people gardened in the past and what they have contributed to our gardens today. This compendious volume features fascinating garden facts and lore, including sections on great gardeners in history; extraordinary and surprising plants; remarkable enclosures from around the world; key gardening moments in history; the wildlife in our backyards; things for the plant lover to do indoors, and other interesting trivia and statistics. Illustrated throughout and brought to you by D.G. Hessayon, the internationally recognized writer of the blockbuster Expert series, this is the perfect book for every nature lover.

The Bedside Book of the Garden

This companion to The Vegetable & Herb Expert, The Fruit Expert, and The Greenhouse Expert shows readers how to prepare the nutritious produce they have grown for the table through classic recipes, trusted cooking methods, and much more. Original.

The Garden to Kitchen Expert

The world's most popular gardening series goes organic! Today, more and more people are concerned with the environment?and they want to garden using only the most natural, earth-friendly techniques and products. And there's no better way for them to become expert than with the newest entry in this acclaimed series. Bestselling author Dr. D.G. Hessayon provides aspiring greenies with all the reliable, real-world horticultural advice they need. Gardeners both old and new will learn how to choose plants that thrive in their climate and care for them without chemicals, to create a space that's welcoming to wildlife, and to be ecologically savvy every step of the way. This is a book no gardener should be without!

The Green Garden Expert

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. Getting the best taste from your fruit. How to prune. Dealing with fruit problems and pests. Shop-bought fruit. Reliable, easy-to-follow advice and information from EXPERT books - the world's best-selling gardening series.

The Fruit Expert

"INTRODUCTION lant Types ARDEN FLOWERS A-Z UYING PLANTS LANTING LANT CARE atering; Weeding; Feeding; Mulching ardening Off; Cutting Back; Winter Care; Staking LANT INDEX"

The Pocket Flower Expert

In this jam-packed and revised edition, readers will learn how to recognize types of lawns, maintain excellent care, and diagnose and cure lawn troubles. The lawn care program and calendar continue to be reader favorites. Full-color illustrations.

The New Lawn Expert

First Edition 150,000 copies! Over 200 different flowers you grow from bulbs get the world-famous flower doctor's treatment. See which are best for indoor growing and which are best outdoors, with a plan so you'll enjoy colorful blooms all year-round--from Amaryllis, Begonia, Crocus, and Dahlia, through Irises, Lilies, Narcissus, Tulip, and Zephyranthes. All 200 bulb types come with full-color photos of the plants in season, close-up color illustrations of bulb parts, and tips on planting times, sites, soils, and propagation techniques. Learn how to plant, feed, and water each type, and what's needed for after- flowering care, winter protection, staking, and storage. The full range of interests is covered: increasing your stock, using bulbs in beds and borders, naturalizing bulbs, growing bulbs in containers, in the rockery, and in the greenhouse. A special section shows how to display and care for cut flowers from bulbs. Troubleshooting charts explain how to keep everything alive and flourishing.More than 40 million of these amazingly clear and simple books are on the bookshelves of gardeners worldwide. With beautiful full color on every page, and the latest expert advice on every aspect of plant care clearly spelled out, it's a series that's just waiting for tens of millions more green thumbs to turn the pages.

The Bulb Expert

"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. hoosing and buying. ow and where to plant. ow to mulch, train and feed. runing. ealing with pests and diseases. rowing roses as a hobby. Reliable, easy-to-follow advice and information from EXPERT books - the world's best-selling gardening series."

The Rose Expert

Revised and updated, twice the size--and with over two and a half million copies sold! He's the world's best-selling gardening author and this is now the definitive manual on flower gardening. As big as The Houseplant Expert, the new, greatly expanded, and amazingly comprehensive Millennium Edition is packed with every detail, every secret, and every trick Hessayon has uncovered through years of experience. Filled with facts on everything from choosing the right type of flower to cultivate, to increasing stock, to learning the ins-and-outs of flower care, to the special growing details that only an "expert book" can provide, it's truly the only flower guide you'll ever need. With an incredible array of available flowers shown, and complete A to Z dictionaries of annuals and biennials, border perennials, rockery perennials, bulbs, and hobby plants, there is everything you need to select the perfect flowers. Color photos of every one, plus all the varieties of each--with choice of site, climate, propagation techniques, and more--make sure everything goes smoothly. But because things occasio nally do go wrong even in the most well-tended gardens, a special section on plant troubles contains a full "rogues' gallery" of potential problems--and ways to nip them in the bud. 256 pages (all in color), 7 1/4 x 9 1/2.

The New Flower Expert

Written by the world's foremost gardening authority, and jam-packed with the most up-to-date information, the Expert collections offer techniques, full-color photos throughout, and plenty of thumbnails and diagrams. This brand new entry into the very best gardening series there is focuses on beautiful orchids, plants once only for the wealthy and the skilled, but now available to everyone. With The Orchid Expert, they'll become permanent members of your family, treasured not only for their flowers, but all year long. Dr. Hessayon explains it all: what to look for when buying a plant, the secrets of success plant by plant, the way to ensure repeat flowering, increasing your stock, preserving blooms with microwaves, and identifying species the unique Expert way. All sorts of odd and intriguing facts reveal why orchids are so different from the rest of the plant kingdom, and the advice is reliable, easy-to-follow, and comprehensive. A magnificent color picture gallery showcases the most stunning and unusual varieties, many in full-page images. As always, there's an invaluable trouble-shooting section, diagrams to help you identify the flowers, and a glossary.

The Orchid Expert

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 Greenhouse Expert

Covering everything you need to know about vegetables, this definitive gardening resource has been updated to include all the new varieties available and the latest advice about beating pests and diseases. Original.

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