Christopher Brickell Boeken

Introduction -- Ornamental trees -- Tree fruits -- Ornamental shrubs -- Soft fruits -- Climbing plants -- Roses.

This is a practical guide to planning, developing and nurturing a garden, from the experts at the RHS. It is also 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 and diseases. Plus, create outstanding displays with a special section on how to use colour and in-depth features on the most popular plants such as lilies and hostas. This title is a must-have for any gardener. '...you can't do without it. As a reference book it is unsurpassed' - "Guardian".

A practical guide to planning, developing and nurturing a garden, from the experts at the RHS A new edition of this 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 and diseases. Plus create outstanding displays, with a special section on how to use colour and in-depth features on the most popular plants such as lilies and hostas. A must-have for any gardener.

This text - supported by 3,000 commissioned colour photographs - guides the reader through the entire range of gardening techniques. The largest section of the book, Creating the Garden,opens with a detailed chapter on garden planning and design, which invites the reader to explore fresh ways of designing and making the most of your site. In the second part of the book, Maintaining the Garden, all the tools, equipment, accessories, and materials needed for garden projects are covered. Annotated diagrams and detailed photographs make any task easy to grasp, from how to select and equip a greenhouse, to laying paving, putting up fencing, and building a pergola. Separate chapters show how climate and soil combine to affect your garden, with simple instructions on cultivating and improving the soil. At the back of the book there is a gardener's calendar with seasonal reminders, an extensive glossary of terms, and a fully-integrated index that includes botanical and common plant names.

The 15,000 plants featured in this encyclopedia have been selected by a team of over 70 consultants. They tried to include exciting new introductions as well as tried and tested favourites, and unusual cultivars and specimens

The essential guide to ornamental garden plants. *Detailed profiles of some 15,000 garden plants , prepared by a panel of leading gardening experts. *Edited by Christopher Brickell and H. Marc Cathey, international authorities on plants of the world. *From the new and exotic to heirlooms and garden favorites there are plants suited to garden of all kinds. *Over 6,000 superb photographs illustrate the diverse forms and colors of a spectacular array of plants. "Staggeringly comprehensive, easy to use, and full of photographs that have been meticulously checked." -- Anna Pavord