Product Description

A visit to the garden centre to buy new plants can be exciting but expensive, so it is essential to know what will thrive in your patch and how to give your new acquisitions a good start. In this practical guide, readers with little previous experience are shown how to create the garden they want by choosing the right plants for the job, as well as how to care and maintain them for years to come. From anemones to peonies, poppies to red-hot-pokers, the most popular garden plants form the basis of the book and are accompanied by special features such as growing flowers for cutting, training roses and establishing a hedge.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #554185 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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"Perfect guide to great garden plants..."

About the Author
Toby Buckland is a well-known TV gardener, presenter on BBC1's 'Garden Magic', ITV's 'Full Bloom' and Carol Vorderman's 'Better Homes and Better Gardens'. He is the author of '50 Weekend Garden Projects' (Cassell) and a regular contributor to magazines. Lisa Buckland is gardening editor of 'House Beautiful' magazine, co-presenter with Toby on 'Garden Magic' and presenter for Channel 4's 'Real Gardens'. She is also co-author of 'Garden Terms'.

Customer Reviews

It worked for me
This book is an easy and entertaining read. Full of important and useful horticultural information, knowledge and advice its step by step approach, clear text and great photography hits the spot for most of us who sit somewhere between expert and complete amateur. The photographs are great and importantly they document exactly how to approach the task in hand. Many garden books have the habit of either setting out so much detail that by the time you finish reading you don't have any spare to put your reading into practice; or conversely they pummel you with wonderful pictures such that your ego is defeated by the task even before you begin.
Lisa and Toby Buckland set out easy to achieve, creative ideas with neither a whiff of condescension nor ego - a recommended read to serious and part-time gardeners everywhere.