"An updated edition of the best-selling highly illustrated garden plant reference, featuring more than 8,000 plants and 4,000 photographs.Choose the right plants for your garden and find all the inspiration and guidance you need with The RHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. Drawing on expert advice from the RHS, this best-selling book features a photographic catalogue of more than 4,000 plants and flowers, all organised by colour, size, ..."
"Learn how to prune and train fruit bushes, fruit trees, roses, and woody ornamentals with this best-selling plant-by-plant guide - now in its 4th edition. Written and updated by the experts at the Royal Horticultural Society, RHS Pruning & Training provides step-by-step guidance on how to prune and shape more than 800 different plants, including climbing plants, fruiting vines, conifers, and palm trees. Simple instructions accompanied b ..."
"Fifth edition of this best-selling guide to plants and flowers, updated and revised from the experts at the RHSRHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers is an expert guide to planning your dream garden, redesigned to aid navigation and make identifying plants easier than ever. Over 8,000 easy-to-find plants and thousands of photographs will give you all the guidance you need. Each variety is photographed and the new "how to" planting guide ..."
"Featuring more than 800 plants and step-by-step instructions to pruning and training hundreds of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, this comprehensive guide is freshly redesigned to help cultivate your perfect garden.With chapters on everything from rosebushes to peach trees, Pruning and Training has advice for every garden and gardener. Using a practical A–Z approach, organized by plant type, information is displayed in an easy-to-fol ..."
"A practical guide to planning, developing and nurturing a garden, from the experts at the RHS An expert guide to growing your dream garden. Choose the plants you want for your garden, without knowing their botanical names, with over 8,000 easy-to-find entries and thousands of photographs you’ll have all the guidance you need. Draw on authoritative, expert advice from Britain’s leading horticulturists on cultivation and beating pests ..."
"Collecting contributions from 100 distinguished horticulturists, the handsome and lavishly illustrated American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants is a truly definitive gardening reference. With its 1,092 tiny-print pages, this may not be the book to tuck into your pocket as you weed and mulch, but what this encyclopedia lacks in portability, it certainly makes up for in scope. Hardy and tender plants, heirloom vari ..."
"Combining the authority of the AHS with the visual expertise of DK, this full-color gardening reference is the definitive guide for gardeners. Simply the definitive full-color reference to the horticulture of North America, AHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers contains more than 8,000 plant profiles, over 4,250 photographs, and practical advice on everything from cultivation, pests, and diseases, to plant selection and identificationBoo ..."
"This handy and comprehensive guide contains fully illustrated expert advice on pruning and training every kind of garden plant. Simple but important techniques of controlling, directing, and promoting the healthy and attractive growth of trees, shrubs, and vines are shown in clear detail. Includes step-by-step sequences, pruning diagrams, before-and-after comparisons, and practical tips Pocket-size format with flexible cover makes it id ..."
"A practical handbook giving step-by-step explanations to the correct pruning and training of ornamental trees, climbing plants, tree fruits, shrubs and roses. The 800 plants are grouped and listed alphabetically with information of general pruning principles for each group and the growth habits and particular needs of individual plants. Illustrations show you exactly where and how to make pruning cuts to bring the best out of garden pla ..."
"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. Written by experts and including an ..."
"This definitive, step-by-step guide to garden design, endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society, includes ideas and project plans for a wide variety of garden elements and structures - and all the information you need to design and build the garden of your dreams. Includes more than 500 step-by-step illustrations and diagrams. Makeovers for boundaries, gates and screens, pergolas and arches, surfaces and steps, and rock and water fe ..."
"This is the most comprehensive and visually exciting A-Z plant encyclopedia ever. Endorsed by RHS experts, it lists over 15,000 plants and is illustrated throughout. It is ideal for both the gardening expert or the budding amateur, telling you everything you need to know about garden plants."
"Much of the success in the cultivation of plants is due to correct pruning and this book is designed to explain the subtleties of this gardening art in a practical way. Each stage of pruning is shown, indicating which branch or stem should be removed and how the plant will look after the operation. A series of detailed diagrams are designed to show the basic principles and methods. This book is one in a series of eight titles, which tog ..."
"More than 15,000 plants in 6,000 photographs and illustrations. The AHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants is the most comprehensive, detailed, and lavishly illustrated guide to garden plants ever published. With authoritative coverage of more than 15,000 ornamental plants, accompanied by nearly 6,000 full-color photographs, it is destined to become the essential reference work for all gardeners, from novice to expert. Plants are arrang ..."
"The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening is the one and only practical guide to gardening you'll ever need. The comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date text -- supported by more than 3,000 specially commissioned color photographs -- guides you expertly through the entire range of gardening techniques. The first section of the book, Creating the Garden, opens with detailed information on garden planning and desig ..."
"This reference book gives photographic explanations of every gardening technique and has more than 500 separate step-by-step sequences. Written by a team of international experts over three years, its range and depth illustrates authoritative and up-to-date practical gardening skills from simple to advanced. There are four major sections. Part one covers all the different plant groups and areas of the garden, advising on the uses of the ..."
"This new edition features the latest and most popular cultivars, with more than 1,400 new plants added, as well as updated photography, comprehensive hardiness ratings, and a brand-new introduction."
"Photolibrary: John Glover: Papaver Oriental Group 'Turkish Delight'; Hermant
Jariwala/GPL: P. orientale var. bracteatum. ... Jonathan Buckley: S. guaranitica '
Black and Blue'; Heather Edwards: S. patens; John Glover: S. verticillata 'Purple
Rain'; ... 'Royal Standard', K. caulescens; G Delacroix: K. 'Royal Standard'; D
Gould: K. 'Prince Igor'; MAP/N Pasquel: K. 'Green Jade'; T Sandell: K. 'Toffee
Nosed'."
"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. These quests are the subject of "Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens," which tells the stories of the people who participated in what were ..."