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Covers everything from the initial planning of your garden on paper to how to make your design a reality with planting, laying and construction guides. This single book will tell you everything you could need to know to achieve your ideal garden.
Includes:
- How to assess your site, create a style and source materials
- Advice on planting schemes and achieving year-round interest
- Tips on working with design principles such as scale, proportion and balance
- Simple instructions for hard landscaping
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden.
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£6.99
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Overcome the problems every gardener faces with helpful solutions to the problem of shady spots, and handy tips on how to make the most of these notoriously difficult areas.
Includes:
- Creative design ideas for brightening up dark spaces, including north-facing walls,
- Directory of plants that will thrive in shady spots,
- Care advice for shady lawns and how to deal with moss and algae,
- Ways to achieve year-round colour and interest.
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden. |
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Lawns, Paths and Patios focuses on creating the basic structure of your garden, and complementing the basic features with planting, design and furniture.
Includes:
- How to prepare your site and lay turf, paving, paths and decking,
- Guidance on choosing materials,
- Tips on labour-saving methods and devices,
- Practical advice on seasonal care, feeding and watering.
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden. |
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Deals with the basic skills that every gardener needs to know and understand. Think about what you're trying to achieve, whether it be formative shaping of the plant, maintenance, renewal or rejuvenation. Looks at the best tools available for the job and the different techniques to use.
Includes:
- Guidance on selecting and using tools and equipment,
- Comprehensive instructions on pruning plants, including roses, shrubs and hedges,
- Tips on how to increase cropping and flowering,
- Advice on training for shape and support.
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden. |
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Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners.
Learn all the tricks to grow vegetables from seed, maintain mature plants, keep the pests at bay and produce a sustainable crop in your vegetable garden.
Includes advice on how to
- Create and maintain a vegetable bed
- Get the most from plants using feed and combating pests and diseases
- Harvest and store crops
- Incorporate vegetables into a decorative border
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners.
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Chris Beardshaw – How does your garden grow? – Get to know your plants and become a better gardener
- Ever wondered why some plants favour bright sunshine and others shade?
- Or how pollination works, or why its vital to know your soil type?
- Do you know how and when to take cuttings, and just how far a slug can travel in a single evening?
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- From sowing at the right time to fending off harmful pests, Chris Beardshaw, popular TV gardener, two-times Gold Medal Winner at the Chelsea Flower Show and Gardeners Question Time panellist, explains how understanding the way nature works will make you a better and more confident gardener
- Hardbacked book, includes photographs of practical techniques
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£20.00
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Herbs & Healing Plants of Britain & Europe – A Collins Nature Guide
- This new photographic guide includes over 300 plants used in both conventional and homeopathic medicine
- Each plant is shown in a colour photograph and its herbal or healing powers are explained
- Individual species descriptions include facts on appearance, flowering season, habitat, distribution, active ingredients and all kinds of medicinal applications
- In addition there is a section on basic botany, a wide range of herbal culinary tips and a host of other practical uses for herbs and healing plants
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£8.99
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How to Attract Butterflies to your Garden – Written by John & Maureen Tampion
- Butterflies will love to come into your garden if you take a little trouble to learn about them and provide them with what they want.
- This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time all the information you will need to encourage garden butterflies in temperate countries including Britain, Continental Europe, and the temperate parts of North America, Australia & New Zealand
- This book covers – Location & Climate,
- Different types of garden
- Plants to attract adult butterflies
- Food for caterpillars
- Diseases & predators
- Helping butterflies breed and overwinter
- The final chapter gives advice on photographing butterflies and there is a useful list of further reading
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£12.99
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Bonsai by Jon Ardle
- A concise and informative guide to growing bonsai
- How to choose the best varieties of bonsai to grow/li>
- Expert advice on planting, propagation and care
- Recommended plants for the best results
- RHS Wisley Handbooks are accessible and up-to-date guides to specific groups of plants written by horticultural experts
- Beautifully illustrated and supported by the many years of gardening experience of the RHS, the series builds into an invaluable library of advice and inspiration
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£7.99
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Garden Succulents by Terry Hewitt
- A concise and informative guide to growing grapes
- How to choose the best varieties of grapes for your site and situation
- Expert advice on planting, propagation and care
- Recommended plants for the best results
- RHS Wisley Handbooks are accessible and up-to-date guides to specific groups of plants written by horticultural experts
- Beautifully illustrated and supported by the many years of gardening experience of the RHS, the series builds into an invaluable library of advice and inspiration
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£7.99
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