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 | The Mediterranean climate—with its long, warm summers and cool, wet winters—is ideal for growing a wide range of gorgeous plants. However, these plants can be enjoyed far beyond the Mediterranean—in both small and large gardens with similar climates or, in cooler regions, in conservatories. With sections on both general care and specific plants, Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates will help you to choose and grow beautiful plants and create a garden suited to your needs. The book includes a ...
Amazon / Crowood Press / Book
 Price: 531.90 $ |  | This book is small enough to take along on your next visit to the garden center and features the best plant varieties for Montana gardens, whether annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs or herbs. Each account includes information on habitat, height and spread, soil, light and water and tips about the best use of the plant in your garden. ...
Amazon / Lone Pine Publishing / Book
Price: 400.00 $ |  | This visionary planting guide features an A-Z of more than 1,000 great garden plants. Each plant is photographed in glorious partnership with one, two or three ideal companions, creating more than 4,000 of the most imaginative and visually effective combinations possible. With a practical introduction, analyses of what makes a successful combination, the author goes on to show how to recreate combinations shown and invent new combinations. With chapters on bulbs, climbers, perennials, shrubs, tr ...
Amazon / Octopus Publishing Group / Book
Price: 267.35 $ |  | The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards but the vocabulary is kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect as well as to the professional botanists. Although based upon Europe the series will be an extremely useful reference on plants in cultivation throughout the world. Families, genera and specie ...
Amazon / Cambridge University Press / Book
Price: 261.59 $ |  | 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. ...
Amazon / Dorling Kindersley H/B / Book
Price: 246.20 $ |  | Inveterate gardener Roth dispenses advice on herb growing from start to finish [with] 300 magazine-quality color photos and illustrations, several recipes, and instructions for making wreaths and other decorations.-- Publishers Weekly Country Living Gardener serves up a feast for the eyes, a font of practical information, and a treat for all gardeners. Herbs are among our oldest garden plants, but this is a contemporary, fresh look at cultivating them. These beautiful pages reveal everything abo ...
Amazon / Hearst / Book
Price: 211.99 $ |  | This book provides a means for the accurate identification of over 190 families and 2220 genera of flowering plants cultivated out-of-doors in gardens in north-west Europe and in other geographical regions with a similar climate, including parts of North America. The text is an abridged version of The European Garden Flora, published in six volumes, and consitutes a handy single volume digest that considers families and genera, but not species. A key to all the families is provided and for each ...
Amazon / Cambridge University Press / Book
Price: 206.65 $ |  | An illustrated reference guide to over ten thousand plants, which is packaged in a carry case together with a CD-ROM. ...
Amazon / Random Ho, Australia / Book
Price: 195.00 $ |  | Japanese plants have had an unmistakable influence on the gardens of the world. Who can imagine gardens without flowering cherries, hostas, Japanese maples, or magnolias? For all the popularity of these plants in international gardens, however, few gardeners know the full story of Japanese plants — their history and uses in gardens in Japan, their horticultural merits for gardens of all kinds, even the meaning and symbolism of their native names. Now for the first time, a color encyclopedia prov ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 131.89 $ |  | Irises are one of the worlds most popular garden plants. That was not always so. The story of how several men and women transformed relatively unimpressive iris species into the plants with flowers of diverse forms and colors so beloved by todays gardeners has never been told until now. This book, the first ever written on the history of garden irises, represents years of research in French, British and American primary and secondary sources. It challenges taxonomists designation of Iris germani ...
Amazon / Krieger Publishing Company / Book
Price: 107.52 $ |  | This is a comprehensive, easy to use sourcebook with over 1000 plants listed and over 550 illustraions to help you choose the right plants for your garden. ...
Amazon / Anness / Book
Price: 100.00 $ |  | This checklist of garden plants in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa has been researched by 250 botanists worldwide. It also contains 22,000 botanical names that are no longer officially in use and 10,000 popular names. An illustrated botanical glossary explains all the terms used to describe plants, and lists the most commonly encountered Latin names and their definitions. Every name (including cultivars) is followed by a brief description, the plants distribution i ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
Price: 100.00 $ |
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