Graham Rice

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.

The Big Book for Small Spaces

The Complete Small Garden

Christopher Lloyd

Originally published in 1991 and now available in paperback, a conversational-style debate on the choices, techniques and methods of raising flowers from seed which draws on the occasionally differing opinions and experience of both authors.

Garden Flowers from Seed

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The sweet pea is one of the most popular and evocative of summer flowers, loved for its unsurpassed fragrance, range of colours and ease of cultivation. Authoritative and inspiring, this comprehensive guide covers the history of the sweet pea, how it is classified and detailed descriptions of all available varieties. Both keen gardeners and green-fingered beginners will find the information on how to raise, grow and breed sweet peas indispensable, while practical tips and expert advice on problems, pests and diseases ensure that these beautiful blooms thrive in any environment. Featuring stunning illustrations throughout by award-winning American garden photographer Judy White, this classic guide is a must whether you are growing sweet peas in the garden, displaying them in the house, exhibiting them, or are simply a lover of these glorious plants.

The Sweet Pea Book

The sweet pea is one of the most popular and evocative of summer flowers, loved for its unsurpassed fragrance, range of colours and ease of cultivation. Authoritative and inspiring, The Sweet Pea Book covers: History of sweet peas; Classification; Descriptions of all available varieties; Raising sweet peas; Growing and breeding sweet peas; Problems with sweet peas (peasts and diseases); Fragrance; Sweet peas in the garden; Sweet peas in the house (cut flowers); Exhibiting sweet peas; Sweet peas in the United States; Sweet peas in Australia; Illustrated in colour throughout by studio plates, plant portraits and plant association pictures by the author and the award-winning American garden photographer Judy White.

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.

Elizabeth Strangman

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores features a wealth of practical advice on the cultivation and propagation of these increasingly popular plants. The book contains jargon-free accounts of species in the wild, descriptions of the varieties currently being grown, advice on breeding your own, and most importantly, an extensive chapter on associating hellebores with other plants and arranging groupings for maximum effect in the garden. With contributions from other hellebore enthusiasts and accounts of the work of recent hellebore pioneers, this is a truly comprehensive and up-to-date account of these beautiful plants. No gardener who loves spring flowers will want to be without this lively, authoritative and inspirational book.

Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores

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.

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