The Royal Horticultural Society is a well recognised household name and is the UK’s leading gardening charity. The attractions of gardening are many and various and, to a degree perhaps unique among the arts and crafts, may be experienced by any age group and at all levels of ambition. Annotated diagrams and detailed photographs make any task easy to grasp from how to select and equip a greenhouse to laying paving putting up fencing and building a pergola.

Comprehensive and authoritative text - supported by 3 000 specially commissioned colour photographs - guides you expertly through the entire range of gardening techniques. Comprehensive coverage of gardens and gardening The largest section of the book Creating the Garden opens with a detailed chapter on garden planning and design which invites you to explore fresh ways of designing and making the most of your site. A former president and director of the American Horticultural Society, he has received the highest horticultural awards available to an American in Great Britain and the United States, including the George Robert White Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Liberty Hyde Bailey gold medal from the American Horticultural Society, the Veitch Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Medal of Honor from the Garden Club of America.However I chose this book because it seemed to have all the information a garden enthusiast would want to be interested in. Encyclopedia's by their very definition must be encyclopedic - that means covering all the main facets of a topic, and covering them in sufficient detail to make it useful. There’s a nice chapter on cacti and succulents and even a section on how to propagate ferns from spores.

Create and maintain your perfect garden with the world's finest and most authoritative source of gardening tips and advice from the experts at the RHS, now fully revised and updated.The book itself s less damaged than before and we have kept it anyway as we could not go through the same frustration a third time. major articles on horticultural practices, from air-layering to greenhouse management, from mulches to tree surgery. The gardener attends to a number of basic processes: combating weeds and pests; using space to allay the competition between plants; attending to feeding, watering, and pruning; and conditioning the soil. but again, the RHS leads the field with its Encyclopedia of Gardening As a plain-speaking guide to digging, pruning, planning, pests and diseases, growing fruit and vegetables, not to mention wind and compost, it is hard to beat. First published in 1971 and revised in 1977, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia has sold more than 100,000 copies and become a veritable bible for the gardeners of the United States and Canada.

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lists of plants and display gardens for quick, expert help in choosing plants for specific purposes and locations. Wherever that level has been attained, in all parts of the world and at all periods, people have made efforts to shape their environment into an attractive display. There's plenty of full colour photographs throughout to illustrate, and if you want to grow your own there's plenty of detail in the chapters on herb, fruit and vegetable gardens.Biography: Formerly Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society, Christopher Brickell is an eminent plantsman. The gardening experience may involve visiting some of the world’s great gardens at different seasons to see the relation of individual groups of plants, trees, and shrubs to the whole design; to study the positioning of plants in terms of their colour, texture, and weight of leaf or blossom; and to appreciate the use of special features such as ponds or watercourses, pavilions, or rockeries. Packed with unrivalled detail and a vast breadth of information, you’ll find advice and clearly photographed step-by-step guides that show you how to garden, whether you’re tackling your vegetable plot or tending to cacti and succulents. At the adult level, it can be as simple as helping to raise a good and edible carrot, and it can give rise to almost parental pride. I used it throughout my studies for an RHS certificate and turn to it often still in my work as a gardener.