Product Description

The ultimate gardening reference: two volumes covering everything you need to know to keep your garden flourishing, from the experts at the RHS Choose the plants you want for your garden and learn to position and care for them properly with the new edition of this perennial favourite. Detailed profiles of 15,500 garden plants: from new and exotic varieties to garden favourites, provide all the guidance you need. Draw on authoritative, expert advice from Britain’s leading horticulturists on cultivation, beating pests and diseases and creating outstanding displays. Includes a special section on how to use colour and in-depth features on the most popular plants such as lilies and hostas.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23579 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1136 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Collecting contributions from 100 distinguished horticulturists, the handsome and lavishly illustrated Royal 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 varieties and the latest hybrids--they're all accounted for here, with growing tips and background information about native habitats and ornamental features. You'll also find a fascinating section about botany, as well as information about basic gardening techniques such as mulching, staking, pruning, propagating and protecting plants for winter. But the encyclopedia's main attraction is the individual plant entries--more than 15,000 of them, embellished with 6,000 full-colour photographs and illustrations. From the visual glossary of leaves to the map of growing regions, the Royal Horticultural Society A-Z of Garden Plants provides an unsurpassed wealth of botanical information, making it the yardstick by which all other gardening references must be measured.

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'Unfailingly accurate, supremely inspiring and wonderfully illustrated ... a must for any gardener' Alan Titchmarsh '. . . you can't do without it. As a reference book it is unsurpassed.' Guardian 'Absolutely essential' BBC Good Homes