 | All of the essentials on iris care are carefully and simply explained, along with tips to ensure a stunning display from healthy plants. Specific cultural advice for the most desirable and adaptable iris types allows gardeners to choose the plants best suited for their region of the country. The full beauty of these irises is captured in color, featuring images by renowned garden photographer Roger Foley. Also included is a list of recent American Iris Society award-winning varieties and complet ...
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 | This book features the very best of Irish gardens to visit and enjoy, from the magnificent and celebrated to the really secret gardens - the off-the-track gardens that open for a few days a year. Author Shirley Lanigan takes you on a countrywide tour of over 300 gardens. She chats with the gardeners, many of them award-winning, who willingly share the secrets of their success and give ideas for colour combination, low maintenance plants and unusual and exciting planting schemes. OBrien Guide to ...
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 | This is a new edition packed with trusted, practical advice for every gardener from the experts at the RHS Advisory Service. An evolving garden is always creating questions, so the experts at RHS Wisley are on-hand to provide the answers. Share their knowledge and experience as they answer 300 popular gardening questions on everything from horticultural techniques and planting ideas, to how to get rid of aphids, slugs or plant diseases. Trusted advice will make gardening a breeze whether youre a ...
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 | Capturing the spectacular presence of these extrovert plants, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Dahlias will delight dahlia lovers, convert those new to the genus, and inspire a new generation of growers. ...
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 | A complete practical guide to growing and collecting these magnificent flowering plants and using them to best effect in the garden. Illustrated with over 75 color photographs for aid in identification and to show the range of peonies available. ...
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 | The strong forms and eye-catching colors of cannas make them perfect for planting as focal points or to help create a subtropical ambience. ...
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 | There have been many studies of the English landscape garden of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but most of these have concentrated on the tastes of owners or the technical plans of designers. This illustrated book by Douglas D.C. Chambers instead discusses the philosophy of gardening and landscaping that developed during this period, the gardeners who made the gardens, and the new planting materials available to them. Between 1650 and 1750, new developments in botanical horticulture led ...
Amazon / Paul Mellon Centre BA / Book
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 | Karel Capeks The Gardeners Year is a timeless classic of wit and wisdom, sure to capture the heart and imagination of every gardener—indeed, everyone who has pursued any hobby with a passion that occasionally overrides good common sense. Originally published more that fifty years ago in Czechoslovakia, it transcends the years with grace and ease. Whether Capek is talking about the lack or surfeit of rain, the fruitless search for space to plant just a few more perennials, or the unfathomable mys ...
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 | This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia of plants contains information on over 20,000 plants from around the world. The volume is organized alphabetically by botanical name, and each entry provides a detailed description of the plant, notes on its origin, cultivation requirements, growth habits, propagation and the pests and diseases to which it is prone. The introduction, by Tony Lord, explains the workings of the worlds 12 climatic zones, and explores the environments of, and ...
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 | First published in 1971 and revised in 1977, Wymans Gardening Encyclopedia has sold more than 100,000 copies and become a veritable bible for the gardeners of the United States and Canada. Now the dean of American horticulture has revised this classic once again. In addition to offering the best general advice on gardening practice, this updated and expanded edition includes: * Up-to-the-minute information on safe use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, along with a list of ...
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 | This fascinating two-volume set includes a photographic reproduction of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian gardeners notebook from Dumbarton Oakss Rare Books Collection. The notebook is a record of the planting of three flower gardens at San Lorenzo. It is now believed that the gardens were created for Margherita de Medici Farnese, duchess of Parma and Piacenza. The notebook provides insight into the creation of a seventeenth-century garden, from identifying flowers to planning flowerbeds. ...
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 | This monograph stresses the species of Clematis, unlike The Gardeners Guide to Growing Clematis, which features the cultivars. ...
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 | Hostas are consistently voted the gardeners favorite perennial — their clean lines, sumptuous leaves, and elegant flowers offer great potential for striking specimen plantings and also make them the most accommodating of companion plants. The core of this encyclopedia is a fully illustrated collection of the worlds finest hostas. This valuable resource provides a full description and color photograph for more than 750 plants. Informative sections on hosta classification and botany, gardening ide ...
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 | This book contains practical help for any keen gardener, whether beginners or the most experienced. It provides everything necessary to make a garden look beautiful throughout the season. ...
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 | Few gardens can transport visitors to wild and rugged landscapes as well as rock gardens. Eye-catching rock gardens are among the most challenging — and satisfying — expressions of the gardeners craft. A true rock garden is a specialized habitat that allows the gardener to grow plants that do not flourish anywhere else. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of building rock gardens in all parts of North America. Topics covered include rock placement, materials, and planting and main ...
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