Product Description

Tackle pests and diseases fast with this handy gardener's guide. Learn to identify, treat and prevent plant problems with the help of the experts at the RHS. A detailed A-Z plant listing explains common plant problems so you know what to look out for in your garden. Explore more than 300 close-up photos showing symptoms and causes of ailments, helping you to identify and treat problems fast. It includes suggestions for organic, biological and chemical controls to keep you one step ahead of pests and diseases. It helps you keep your plants in perfect condition all year round.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28080 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Tackle pests and diseases fast with this handy gardener's guide. Learn to identify, treat and prevent plant problems with the help of the experts at the RHS. A detailed A-Z plant listing explains common plant problems so you know what to look out for in your garden. Explore more than 300 close-up photos showing symptoms and causes of ailments, helping you to identify and treat problems fast. It includes suggestions for organic, biological and chemical controls to keep you one step ahead of pests and diseases. It helps you keep your plants in perfect condition all year round.

About the Author
Pippa Greenwood is a key panellist on BBC Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time and appears on BBC TV's Gardeners' World. She's won awards from the Garden Writers' Guild for Pests and Diseases and Flower Gardener. Pippa lives in Hampshire. Andrew Halstead is Senior Entomologist at the RHS Gardens at Wisley.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful photos to help you identify everything
I don't own this book but recently bought a copy for my brother, and would like to get one myself. What struck me when browsing this book, and what impelled me to buy it, was the plethora of excellent, good-sized colour photos to enable the precise identification of every pest and disease. Unfortunately many books on this subject provide instead only line drawings, which don't do the trick in the same way as a good photo.
But this book is not just full of photos - there's plenty of detailed written info too on each problem and which plants it affects, and no doubt (since it's an RHS book and involved Pippa Greenwood) of good quality too, but I didn't have a chance to read through it and assess it.
Another RHS book on the same subject is written by different authors and has few if any photos, relying on b&w line drawings, and this one looks far superior. I only refrain from giving this five stars because I have not had a chance to read it in depth.