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	20 Best Garden Designs (Paperback) by Tim Newbury (Author) For those who want a beautiful garden but don't have the time or the money to develop a plan, this title offers a selection of off-the-peg designs to suit a range of styles, tastes and pockets. There is a design for every type of garden, from the low-cost family garden to a town garden for entertaining, each one accompanied by a complete planting plan. With 20 imaginative designs to suit every taste and lifestyle - from a container garden to the latest in gravel gardens - all are guaranteed to transform even the most unpromising plot. COVER PRICE £9.99 isbn: 9781841882086 Price: £9.00


All-in-One-Garden: Grow Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs and Flowers in the Same Plot (Paperback) by Graham Rice There is a revival of interest in growing food, but as gardens become smaller many people find it difficult to find the space or vote for flowers over food, fearing that vegetables and fruits won't be quite as attractive. "The All-in-one Garden" proves that this isn't the case. Whether you've got acres, a yard or even a window-box, Graham Rice shows that you can integrate food plants into your garden in an attractive way. Some food plants are inherently ornamental, with eye-catching flowers, foliage or fruits. Others have been developed to be ornamental, providing the perfect combination of form and flavour. The true way of having your cake and eating it in garden terms, this is a new way of enjoying your garden to the full. isbn: 1844034518 Price: £16.99


	Architecture in the Garden (Hardcover) by James Van Sweden (Author), Penelope Hobhouse (Introduction) The elements of garden architecture - paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks and art - together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this illustrated and accessible book, landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. Each case study highlights a particular architectural element, breaking it down into practical ideas that any gardener can apply to his or her own garden, including dozens of detailed schematic drawings that can be used to build many of the elements described by the author, along with an extensive illustrated glossary. This book aims to inspire you with its many practical ideas on how to domesticate your landscape and design an outdoor space that suits your taste as well as your lifestyle. isbn: 0711221898 Price: £30.00


Architectural Plants (Collins GEM) (Paperback) by Christine Shaw Using architectural plants, a plain garden can become an exciting space filled with drama and dimension. Gem Architectural Plants is the only guide you need to successfully choose, plant and care for the most popular varieties. For year-round presence in the garden, architectural plants like ferns, palms, bamboo and cacti are a perfect solution. The unique shapes and exotic origins of these plants are guaranteed to make a statement. This indispensable guide, part of the successful Gem series, introduces the beginning gardener to one of the fastest growing areas of British horticulture today. Gem Architectural Plants begins with the basics of plant care, focusing especially on pruning in order to keep plants looking their best through every season. A directory of the most popular architectural plants provides essential information on where to site, height, spread and maintenance. With pruning and care tips for each plant, even the most inexperienced gardener can't go wrong. High-quality photography and clear design throughout make this guide the best way to bring your garden to life with architectural plants. isbn: 0007201249 Price: £4.99


	Architectural Plants: Ferns, Palms, Hostas and Yuccas (Collins Practical Gardener) (Paperback) by Christine Shaw Architectural plants are plants that make a bold statement in the garden, such as ferns, palms, bamboos and cacti. Usually exotic, they are grown for their strong shape and year-round presence. Gardening with architectural plants is one of the fastest growing areas of horticulture in Britain. The bulk of this guide comprises a comprehensive directory of the most common architectural plants available for growing. Each entry includes: background information on general characteristics, planting and care; a table of plant care with easily accessed advice on soil, site, watering, pruning, general care and pests and diseases; colour-coded icons to indicate hardiness; and expert tip boxes. The book opens with a practical guide to essential gardening techniques, which covers: assessing your plot for soil quality, drainage, sun and shade; where to buy and how to tell if the plant is healthy; advice for planting trees and plants; creative ideas for planting combinations; specialist care for architectural plants throughout the year, including winter protection, brown bitting and pruning; and increasing stock with propagation techniques. The book closes with a section on plant problems, which includes a trouble-shooting chart to identify the problem and a directory of pests and diseases. isbn: 0007146558 Price: £6.99


Architectural Plants and Planting (Paperback) by Sunniva Harte It is now a widely accepted practice to treat the garden as another room, with carefully considered surfaces and special, large, structural plants, such as palms, topiarised boxes and exotic shrubs, to achieve volume, form and drama in the garden. This beautifully illustrated and authoritatively written new book assumes no prior knowledge of garden design or plant cultivation, and looks at a variety of different ways of bringing shape, style and life into the garden. Over 100 stunning photographs illustrate an informed text which covers both plants and sculptures. A useful plant directory gives care instructions and preferred growing conditions for all the plants mentioned in the text. COVER PRICE £12.99 isbn: 184330466x Price: £5.99


	The Art of the Kitchen Garden (Hardcover) by Jan Gertley (Author), Michael Gertley (Author) This is a guide to the old fashioned traditions of designing and planting herb and vegetable gardens, emphasizing artistic design. It offers information on designing kitchen gardens, plant selection, colour, texture, growing basics, seeds and seedlings, and following ideas from paper to garden. isbn: 1561581801 Price: £22.95


Gertrude Jekyll and the Arts and Crafts Garden (Hardcover) by Gertrude Jekyll (Author), Lawrence Weaver (Author) This book, first published in 1912 by "Country Life", contains the substance of a legend, when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found expression in the making of gardens. Both Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver were working on "Country Life" in its early days under its founder and owner, Edward Hudson. Lawrence Weaver was an architect, the Architectural Editor of "Country Life", with an immense eye for detail and the intricacies of fine craftmanship. Gertrude Jekyll was art school trained, and into her second life as a gardener. In collaborating to write this book, the two authors found an area of common ground and revelled in their mutual intuitive, artistic and historic gardening ideas. For its craftmanship and planting relationships, as well as in its use as a practical handbook, useful for the restoration of gardens, readers of this book should find it no less pertinent to the present than when it was first published. COVER PRICE £25.00 isbn: 9781870673167 Price: £22.50


	The Australian Garden: Designing with Australian Plants (Hardcover) by John Landy (Foreword), Diana Snape (Author, Photographer), Simon Griffiths (Photographer), George Seddon (Preface) Diana Snape and her colleagues are passionate about Australian gardens and their enthusiasm pervades the wealth of information in this book. Australia enjoys an astonishing range of unusual and beautiful plants. "The Australian Garden" shows how Australian plants can be used in all major gardening styles. Choices include the untouched natural garden, arid, country, walkabout, grassland, cottage, wildflower, small and courtyard, plus formal gardens where control, however unobtrusive, is of the essence. The book provides a vast array of Australian plants for designing groundcovers, features, ornamentals, infill or for almost any purpose. Many other aspects of design are covered, such as the beauty and tranquility of water in the garden, the joy of living with Australian wildlife and maintaining a sense of harmony amidst a mini native ecosystem.COVER PRICE £19.95 isbn: 9781870673464 Price: £18.00


Brand New Garden: From Bare Plot to Stylish Garden in 5 Easy Steps (Spiral-bound) by Joanna Smith Aimed at all those new homeowners who inherit a bare plot from the builders, this title reveals how to make your garden work for you from the very beginning with simple solutions and instant transformations. It includes six off-the-peg designs aimed to inspire and take you step-by-step through the process of planning your perfect garden. In time when budget allows, you can add more features from the guide, developing your garden without wasting anything you may have done so far. isbn: 0600607828 Price: £4.99


	Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Paperback) by Louise Riotte Gathers information on the characteristics and uses of plants that promote the growth of other varieties, offering descriptions of helpful weeds and insect-repellent plants. isbn: 1580170277 Price: £9.99


RHS Containers for Patios: Simple Steps to Success (RHS) (Paperback) by Richard Rosenfeld (Author) This work offers simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS. Follow RHS show-how and know-how for a garden that looks great all year round (whatever size it is). Inspirational tips and techniques on decorating with pots, hanging baskets, creating themes, selecting the best plants, mulching, pests and more guarantee success. Get perfect results: whether you're a green-fingered guru or a gardening novice. For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series.COVER PRICE £6.99 ISBN: 9781405315920 Price: £6.30


	Cottage Garden (DK Living) (Paperback) by Christopher Lloyd (Author), Richard Bird (Author) Covering both basic and more advanced information , this book on the cottage garden includes a clear explanation of the subject, equipment and preparation. Detailed step-by-step photographs and instructions take the reader systematically through all the techniques. isbn: 0751307025 Price: £9.99


Cottage Gardens: Romantic Gardens in Town and Country (Paperback) by Toby Musgrave (Author) There is perhaps no style of garden more emotive and evocative than the cottage garden - imbued with a sense of romance, idealised by writers and painters, and so alluring to garden makers all over the world, it has been fashionable for nearly two centuries. But, today we often think of it as outdated, old fashioned, past its sell-by date. Wrong! With the hustle and bustle of today's frantic lifestyle, the cottage garden has never been more appropriate. It is the distillation of the essence of what a garden should be - it is a place of beauty, repose and tranquillity. It enables us to get back in touch with the soil, to enjoy the hugely rewarding, but simple pleasures of sowing seed and taking cuttings, of caring for plants and watching them grow and thrive, of harvesting and eating home grown produce. And when the work is done, we can relax in a beautiful, sweetly scented floral retreat. COVER PRICE £12.99 ISBN: 9781903221754 Price: £11.69


	Creating A Low-allergen Garden (Hardcover) by Lucy Huntington (Author) A guide to selecting and maintaining low-allergy plants. The author deals with the causes of allergies and how to avoid them, as well as offering inspirational ideas for designing a low-allergen garden. COVER PRICE £14.99 isbn: 1857324544 Price: £6.99


The "Daily Telegraph" Wildlife Gardening (Hardback) by Charlie Ryrie (Author) Many gardeners today would like to create more wildlife-friendly gardens, but may feel restricted by their situation, or put off by assuming that they will have to make huge changes to an established plot. This practical book will scotch any myths about wildlife gardening, and encourage everyone, wherever they garden, to invite wildlife to share their outdoor spaces. There are practical ideas for gardens of all sizes and in varied situations, with a special chapter on wildlife gardening in towns: the smallest shady garden can support a range of wildlife and even a window-box or hanging basket in an urban apartment block can make a difference, if you ensure ingredients like extra food in winter, plants that sustain insects and bright or aromatic plants are planted to attract animals and keep them returning. From the best sites for ponds to the right plants to feed various fauna, this book should ensure both you and the wildlife enjoy your garden as fully as possible. COVER PRICE £18.99 isbn: 1844030350 Price: £8.99


	Design Your Garden (Hardcover) by Diarmuid Gavin (Author) Today's most innovative garden designer, Diarmuid Gavin, shares advice, inspiration and ideas on how to design your garden. Diarmuid's ten, easy-to-follow, practical steps cover everything from the basics of good design, to assessing your plot and using plants for style and affect. This practical guide will give you the confidence to create and express your own unique style, whatever your garden space. isbn: 1405305452 Price: £16.99


Designing Borders (Hardcover) by Noel Kingsbury (Author) Each designer has contributed four completely original designs and there are borders for every situation, season and taste, each one stamped with the individuality and personality of its designer. They range from a sunny Mediterranean border, a shady woodland border and a colourful summer border to an oriental border, a single colour border and an easy care border. The designs are accompanied by a detailed planting plan, a 3-dimensional realization and plant portraits to inspire amateurs to think like professionals when planning their borders. COVER PRICE £20.00 isbn: 1844030105 Price: £8.99


	Enjoy Your Garden (Hardcover) by Charlie Dimmock (Author) Charlie Dimmock presents this fun, down-to-earth book to inspire everyone to have a go in their garden. With over 200 illustrations this is for those who fancy getting their hands dirty, but have been put off by all the Latin plant names. THIS IS A NEW UNREAD BOOK BUT THE DUSTJACKET HAS SIGNS OF SHELF WEAR isbn: 0718144295 Price: £6.99


Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden (Paperback) by Derek Fell This is an essential reference for anyone wanting to make the most of their garden, whatever the size, situation or budget. It guides the gardener through the key principles of garden design, from choosing suitable plants and installation to maintaining the garden for years to come. It includes over 150 designs and 1,000 inspirational photographs of award-winning gardens worldwide. This is a resource that will be turned to time and time again when creating the right look for your garden. isbn: 0715322281 Price: £15.99


	The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations (Hardcover) by Tony Lord (Author), Andrew Lawson (Photographer) Every gardener wants to create the perfect garden. With this in mind, this planning guide features more than 1000 individual plants in combination with other plants, showing over 4000 imaginative and visually effective displays, providing detailed information about which plants go best together according to location, soil type, climatic and seasonal considerations. Separate chapters are devoted to shrubs, small trees, roses, climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs. isbn: 1552096238 Price: £14.99


Fragrant Gardening (Paperback) by Steve Bradley (Author), Val Bradley (Author), Andrea Jones (Photographer) Fresh, sweet, delicate, intoxicating - scent stimulates and engages our senses and is inextricably linked to the garden. This captivating book will enable you to turn your garden into an oasis of fragrance. Divided up season-by-season, the book is presented as a gardening calendar, comprising tasks, propagation, planting advice and practical step-by-step projects featuring scented plants. Whether you want to design a fragrant garden from scratch, harvest flowers for drying, or enjoy scented containers, this book will enable you to get the most out of your garden all year round. COVER PRICE £14.99 isbn: 1853919683 Price: £6.99


	The Garden Floor: From Gravel Gardens to Camomile Lawns (Hardcover) by Nigel Colborn (Author) This guide aims to maximise the potential of the often-neglected heart of the garden, and convert it into a stunning centre piece. With design considerations foremost, the text presents a variety of ideas, each of which comes accompanied by step-by-step instructions. COVER PRICE £16.99 ISBN: 9781859742747 Price: £8.99


Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice (Paperback) by George Plumptre (Author), Jamie Garnock (Author), James Rylands (Author), Hugh Palmer (Author) This text traces the use of ornamental features throughout the history of the Western garden, and explores the variety that are still being sold in salerooms. It presents some tried and tested principles of design that can still be applied to the typical modern garden. COVER PRICE £16.95 ISBN: 9780500280799 Price: £9.99


	Garden Ornaments (Hardcover) by Moira Hankinson (Author), Nicholas Hankinson (Author) Providing practical projects and advice on how to make the most out of your outdoor space, this book contains over 30 original projects grouped together in themed chapters - seating and eating, wind and weather, birds and wildlife, creative containers, and inspirational ideas. A range of projects are included from simple decorative flowerpots to traditional wooden planters. There is a final section devoted to sources and techniques which includes information on using colour in the garden, paint finishes, and buying and preserving timber.COVER PRICE £16.99 ISBN: 9780600597421 Price: £6.99


Gardens by the Sea (Hardcover) by Alexandra D'Arnoux (Author), Bruno de Laubadere (Author), Erica Lennard (Author) The mix of sensuous sea air and rolling landscapes of flora and rock produce evocative gardens. Whether wild and rambling, sprouting naturally from the surrounding landscape, or a formally designed property punctuated with sculpture, they are gardens infused with romance and beauty. "Gardens by the Sea" gives a view of these gardens, some never before open to the public eye - with creations by Madison Cox and Tom Armstrong, former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Whitney Museum director, along the coasts of New England to internationally famous camellia specialist Jean Laborey in his exotic garden of Delvosalle in Brittany. For Tunisia, we visit a garden of sand; in Rhode Island we relax in a garden of grasses; a Buddha holds court beneath a climbing rose in Malibu; in Normandy a tower peeks above the palms. Each garden in the book is a fresh fantasy. ISBN: 9780500511077 Price: £9.99


	Gardens of Germany (Paperback) by Charles Quest-Ritson (Author) 1998 An exploration of over 100 private and public German gardens highlighting their most striking features and describing the distinctive character of each. Illustrations of each garden are provided. Included are specially created tours with route maps and nearby cultural sites of interested are noted. In the GARDENS OF series. COVER PRICE £14.99 ISBN: 9781857328974 Price: £3.99


The Art of Japanese Gardens: Designing and Making Our Own Peaceful Space (Hardcover) by Herb Gustafson This text is a guide to constructing and cultivating one's own Japanese garden. The book provides the basics behind each design and structure, revealing the significance behind elements such as fences, rocks, buildings, and ornaments, as well as suggestions on what plants to use. isbn: 0715309862 Price: £9.99


	Lawns (Collins Practical Gardener) (Paperback) by Martin Fish Keeping a healthy and verdant lawn can be a real challenge. Collins Practical Gardener Lawns looks at all imaginable aspects of starting and maintaining a lawn. Whether your lawn is mainly for your family or intended as a show piece, Lawns will provide all the know-how you need to design, prepare for, create and keep a lawn tailored to your needs. All the technical info is covered from ground roots up, including advice on sowing seeds, laying turf, buying equipment and making repairs. Individual design features are suggested, ranging from creating a wildflower meadow to planting bulbs through your lawn in eye-catching patterns and shapes. Each listing in the A-Z directory of grass types features a visual chart listing the best varieties and optimum sowing times. Quick-access care charts provide a hit list of care requirements and the troubleshooting chart tells you how to identify and solve many common problems. Also featured is a directory of pests, diseases and how to treat them, which means when something does go wrong you have all the information at your fingertips to help put it right. Full of information, advice and practical tips, this no-nonsense guide to lawns is the most informative reference of its kind! Contents include: / History of Lawns / Types of lawn / Designing a lawn / Site/aspect / Soil types / Drainage / Preparing for a new lawn / Seed sowing techniques / Laying turf / Aftercare of newly laid lawn / Lawn Maintenance - tools, irrigation / Lawn repairs / Other lawn features / A-Z Lawn Grasses / A-Z Lawn Weeds and Broadleaved Weeds / Troubleshooting / Pests and diseases / Common name plant index and subject index isbn: 000718266x Price: £6.99


Modern Garden Design: Innovation Since 1900 (Paperback) by Janet Waymark (Author) Gardens in the twentieth century reach back into the Victorian era and forward into the age of Land Art. Modern Garden Design traces the revolutionary postwar period - the Harvard rebels, Eckbo, Rose and Kiley; Noguchi, Burle Marx and Barragan - and the powerful influence of the Scandinavian landscape designers. The garden city is given close attention, from late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the newest regeneration of urban centres worldwide. Notable artists and architects also feature here: Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gaudi among others. Land artists have brought landscape and the garden into the 21st century - including Robert Smithson and Kathryn Gustafson in the US, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK. This book will delight and inform everyone with an interest in gardens and contemporary culture. ISBN: 9780500284216 Price: £12.95


	The New Tech Garden (Paperback) by Paul Cooper (Author) A celebration of gardens in which man-made materials such as plastic perspex, steel, glass and textiles have been used by a new generation of garden designers to create gardens more in keeping with contemporary design and lifestyles. Award-winning and controversial garden designer Paul Cooper has chosen the best examples of New Tech gardens from all over the world including kinetic gardens, portable gardens, multi-experience gardens for use in both day- and night-time, instant-assembly gardens, and radical gardens that overthrow convention. COVER PRICE £16.99 ISBN: 9781845332914 Price: £15.29


Secret Gardens of London (Hardcover) by Caroline Clifton-Mogg (Author), Marianne Majerus (Author) London is a city of hidden gardens, a place where few ever glimpse the many colourful secrets behind the sober townhouse facades that give so little away. But the gardens are there, fascinating in their diversity and infinite in their variety, and beautifully revealed on the pages of this book. The secret gardens of London that are uncovered here go beyond convention; they range from the large, classical and formal, with simple, single colour schemes, to tiny gardens that run riot with colour of every imaginable hue. There are gardens on roofs and gardens in basements, gardens where the boundaries cannot be seen and gardens on terraces. There are gardens on top of the world, gardens with water - even gardens on water. There are gardens sheltered by tropical plants, or by billowing sails. There are English cottage gardens, and modern gardens that present sculpture outdoors. There are gardens of artists and gardens of practical enthusiasts. There are collectors' gardens, passionate plantsmen's gardens, gardens restored, revived or reclaimed. The gardens revealed here in this intriguing selection of unique places - thanks to the shared dreams of the owners and the ingenuity of London's finest designers - will delight and inspire anyone with an interest in gardens, gardening - and learning one or two secrets along the way. ISBN: 9780500511787 Price: £24.95


	Starting Out with Native Plants (Hardcover) by Charlotte De La Bedoyere (Author) There are huge advantages for the gardener in growing native plants: local plants are low maintenance because they are adapted to local soils and they will usually withstand adverse weather conditions, such as summer droughts. Many will also grow in difficult areas in poor soil conditions. But perhaps the best reason for growing them is that they help to sustain and preserve the natural biodiversity of the local area: insects, birds and other animals depend on them for food and shelter. "Starting Out with Native Plants" illustrates and catalogues all the plants, excluding trees and shrubs, which are native to Britain. For each plant there are details of its size, habit, flowering season, hardiness, soil and site requirements, propagation and pruning methods, providing British gardeners with an instant and valuable source of reference for their local plant heritage. COVER PRICE £14.99 ISBN: 9781845376697 Price: £13.49


Stonework for the Garden (Step-by-step S.) (Paperback) by Alan Bridgewater (Author), Gill Bridgewater (Author) Using pavers, bricks, rocks and pebbles, this guide presents 16 projects for garden paths, walls and patio floors, as well as eye catching features such as a potting table or a sundial. Clear construction diagrams and concise text accompany every project for ease of use. COVER PRICE £9.99 ISBN: 9781845093563 Price: £2.99


	Wild Gardens (Collins Practical Gardener) (Paperback) by Jenny Hendy Full of advice and clear instructions, Collins Practical Gardener Wild Gardens is the most comprehensive guide to creating a wild garden. One of the latest titles in the successful Practical Gardener series, Wild Gardens will teach you the skills, techniques and planning needed in creating the perfect wild garden. Wild Gardens explores a range of planting options and combinations, from wild flower favourites such as poppies, daisies and cornflowers to rambling climbers like honeysuckle and clematis. Covering many varieties of grasses and prairie plants, Wild Gardens also details an assortment of styles and garden themes to choose from, including the planting of bluebells, ferns and snowdrops to achieve a pastoral woodland look. Useful information on matching plants to wildlife is also included, directing the gardener towards high pollinating plants for attracting butterflies, as well as outlining handy tips for dealing with pests, diseases and other plant viruses. Every alphabetically listed genera is supplied with background information, planting suggestions, illustrations and a visual chart providing details on the specific needs and qualities of each plant. Also included is a handy, quick reference care and troubleshooting chart enabling you to identify, diagnose and remedy plant problems from their symptoms. Packed full with information and great ideas, Wild Gardens is an invaluable addition to the Collins Practical Gardener series and is one of the most attractive and useful guides of its kind. isbn: 0007183976 Price: £6.99

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