Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants

Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants
Author: Alan Bloom
Publisher: Harpercollins
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1992-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780004123295

Tells how to select and use perennials, grasses, ferns, alpines, conifers, heaths, heathers, and shrubs, and describes the care requirements of the most popular varieties

Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses

Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses
Author:
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 088192931X

Describes more than four hundred perennials and grasses, providing information on each plant's origins, preferred conditions, and planting zones.

Gardening with Conifers

Gardening with Conifers
Author: Adrian Bloom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Conifers
ISBN: 9781770859081

Comprehensive in scope and lavishly illustrated, this book offers expert advice on: size and growth rates; Canada/USA hardiness ratings; site and soil preferences; planting, maintenance and propagation; pruning, pests and diseases; dwarf conifers and ground covers; conifers in containers, moving conifers, and more. Stunning color photographs show conifers young and old in a variety of environments illustrating how they create structure and balance for year-round visual interest and color.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Author: Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-07-24
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604692995

With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden
Author: Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1448141346

After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World for seven years, Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road, and went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden, explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design and evolution. Accompanied by beautiful photographs taken by Jonathan Buckley throughout the eight years in which the garden has been made, My Secret Garden allows us access to all of the successes and failures of this diverse and ambitious project. Comprising many different styles and spaces - from an acre of formal beds and ponds to wild flower meadows and a stunning winter garden - Alan's tales of development and cultivation will be applicable to all gardeners. With the plot encompassing fruit trees, a handsome greenhouse and wildlife-friendly plantings, gardeners of all styles and levels of expertise will find something to enjoy. Driven by Alan's infectious and informative style, My Secret Garden is a fascinating, amusing and inspiring book.

Planting the Dry Shade Garden

Planting the Dry Shade Garden
Author: Graham Rice
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604691875

In this book you'll learn how to prune selectively to admit more light and how to amend soil to increase its moisture retention. You'll also learn about more than 130 plants that accept reduced light and moisture levels-long-blooming woodland gems like epimediums and hellebores, and even lush foliage plants like evergreen ferns and hardy gingers, shrubs, climbers, perennials, ground covers, bulbs, annuals, and perennials- there is an entire palette to help you transform challenging spaces into rich, rewarding gardens.

Hellstrip Gardening

Hellstrip Gardening
Author: Evelyn Hadden
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604693320

Presents a guide to creating a garden in such unused spaces as land beside a driveway, next to steps, or between the sidewalk and the street curb, discussing how to prepare the soil and listing the varieties of plants suitable for these conditions.

Private Edens

Private Edens
Author: Jack Staub
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781423621089

Private country paradises boasting remarkable plant palettes and combinations. Garden design expert Jack Staub presents more than twenty beautiful and sumptuous private country gardens in Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. From a romantic garden with cottagey plantings that pays homage to the best of English garden vernacular to a splendid Eden of Maryland countryside meets Himalayan serenity, these garden paradises stand alone on their own terms but offer us examples of what we can all achieve with a modicum of respect, partnership and imagination. A passionate edible gardener and locavore advocate, Jack Staub is the author of the celebrated "75" series of edible gardening books, which includes 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden, and 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden. With his partner, the renowned landscape designer Renny Reynolds, he is the owner of historic Hortulus Farm in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania: www.hortulusfarm.com. Rob Cardillo's work appears regularly in books, magazines and advertisements. You can see more of his award-winning photography at www.robcardillo.com.

Winter Gardens

Winter Gardens
Author: Cedric Pollet
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780711255982

An inspirational reference book which visits twenty of the most beautiful winter gardens in Britain and France before detailing over 300 plants and species you can use to transform your garden in this most underappreciated season.

Exciting Foliage Plants

Exciting Foliage Plants
Author: Roger Phillips
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780330372503

The authors have compiled eight small format books that cover the most popular subjects for gardeners in the Pan Plant Chooser Series. The series is aimed at the less-than-expert gardener who may be buying plants for the first time.