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The Practical Encyclopedia Of
Houseplants And Plant Care

The essential guide to
successful indoor
gardening including
everything you will need
to know about
identifying, buying and
growing houseplants. With
over 600 photographs,
The Practical
Encyclopedia of
Houseplants also provides
instructions on division,
layering, cutting
techniques, maintenance
and choosing the right
plants for your home.

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Basic Gardening

Basic Gardening features
step-by-step guidelines
to every aspect of garden
care. It covers all the
basics, taking nothing
for granted, in addition
to lots of information on
areas of topical
interest, such as how to
save water during a
drought period and how to
compost. With
straightforward
guidelines for growing
your own fruit and
vegetables, Basic
Gardening shows you how
to turn a patch of muddy
ground into an easily
maintainable garden,
whatever the size of your
plot and however busy you
are. From lawn care and
watering to creating
patios and growing
vegetables, it is packed
with easy-to-follow,
practical advice.

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Pests And Diseases - Gardeners
World

Details: You can pour
your heart and soul into
creating a beautiful
garden for recreation and
relaxation, only to have
it ruined by a legion of
bugs, weeds, diseases
and mould. Using this
handy compact guide from
the team at Britain's
best-selling gardening
magazine, you can
finally fight back - from
initial prevention and
protection for your
plants and lawn, to
spotting the early
warning signs and knowing
how best to act to save
your garden from decay.
Using easy step-by-step
guides and helpful tips
from the experts at
Gardeners' World, you
can identify advanced
problems and recognize
the beginnings of a rot,
and can learn the most
efficient and
eco-friendly ways of
dealing with many of the
issues that can plague a
seemingly healthy plot.
From coping with insect
invasions and persistent
weeds to halting
widespread viruses and
nurturing sickly plants,
Gardeners' World: Pests
and Diseases can help you
to identify and
understand problems, and
give you the upper hand
in the battle to protect
your garden. Ideal for:
Gardeners looking for
help on removing pests
and preventing diseases.
This paperback has 213
pages and measures 15.5cm
x 13.5cm x 1.3cm

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Get Started With Your
Allotment

Get Started with Your
Allotment is written by
the UK's leading
Allotment Society and
designed specifically for
all those new to
allotments. It will take
you step-by-step through
the joys of allotment
gardening, right from
the very first stages of
finding an allotment
through to keeping
livestock. It is designed
for both beginners and
those with some
experience, and has
plenty of information for
those who wish to involve
their children and family
members in their new
pursuit. With a complete
guide to the tools
needed, the ideal crops
to grow, the soil
conditions,
troubleshooting and
plenty of legal advice,
it is the most complete
guide available from the
country's most
experienced and trusted
source of allotment
wisdom.

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Container Gardening

Details: The essential
guide for anyone with a
small space or no decent
land on which to grow
plants; for those who
want something more
manageable and easy to
reach; for those who see
the potential for the
exciting visual effects
of varied pots and
containers - the benefits
are endless. This great
new guide will show you
how to choose what types
of containers to use; how
to grow annuals,
perennials, indoor
plants, speciality
plants, and even fruit
and vegetables; and how
to maintain your
beautiful container
garden. Ideal for: A
perfect book for
designers and gardening
fans. This paperback book
has 256 pages and
measures: 16 x 17 x
1.7cm.

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Royal Horticultural Society -
The Half-hour Allotment

This practical and
inspirational handbook is
aimed at the new
generation of gardeners
who want to enjoy the
taste and health benefits
of growing their own
food, but who have
little time to spare.
Expert advice and
innovative techniques
show you how to grow the
right quantities of the
fruit and vegetables you
love, and enjoy the
satisfactions of tending
an allotment or vegetable
garden without becoming a
slave to your plot.
Tested by fruit-grower
Will Sibley and author
Lia Leendertz on their
own allotments, these
methods will enable you
to get the best results
in half an hour per day,
or even less. The book
covers all aspects of
allotmenteering and
vegetable gardening,
including the
practicalities of
obtaining and maintaining
a site, choosing what to
grow, designing the plot
and advanced projects
such as building paths
and shelters. A section
on harvesting, storing
and cooking shows you
what to do when your crop
is ripe and ready.

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Raise Happy Chickens

Raise Happy Chickens and
Other Poultry is a
quickly accessible but
authoritative guide,
suitable for total
beginners, that provides
all the information you
need to start keeping
your own chickens.
Telling you which breed
of bird lays best and
providing useful guidance
on housing, equipment
and the necessities of
day-to-day care, it
meets all the needs of
anyone who dreams of a
garden full of happy,
clucking birds. It also
goes beyond just chickens
to other types of
poultry, and gives
advice and practical
guidelines on housing,
with full explanation of
key areas like welfare,
behaviour and diet.

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Cacti And Succulents

This practical guide will
teach you all you nee to
know about cultivating
cacti and other
succulents. Beautifully
illustrated throughout,
with individual plant
advice and general tips
and information, this is
the ideal guide for
complete beginners and
the more experienced
growers.

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Grow Your Own Fruit And Veg

Grow Your Own Fruit and
Veg: Teach Yourself will
guarantee success for
anyone wishing to grow
fresh produce in any
patch of earth, be it
garden, allotment or
series of containers.
This book gives specific
instructions on when,
where and how to grow and
maintain various fruit
and vegetables, from the
more basic to the exotic,
without the use of
chemicals. It includes an
A-Z list of plants
together with ease of
growth ratings and an
approach that welcomes
involvement from the
whole family. Whatever
your plans for home-grown
fruit and vegetables this
is the essential guide.

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Border Plants Encyclopedia

After a brief
introduction to planning
and planting a border,
this volume presents a
substantial A-Z of
suitable plants,
including annuals,
biennial and perennials,
bulbs and shrubs. Each
plant is described, with
particular emphasis on
its potential
contribution to a border,
and illustrated with
colour photographs. Plus
an index of Latin and
common names.

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Abundance - How To Store And
Preserve Your Garden Produce

Fresh produce are a joy:
crunchy lettuce,
sun-warmed tomatoes,
juicy berries - their
flavours are immediate -
but a winter of those
summer flavours
preserved, now that's a
feeling of satisfaction.
If you are going to truly
try and attain a little
more self-sufficiency
(and save some money at
the same time), think
about what you can store
to get you through the
leaner months. Alys takes
you through all the
different ways of
preserving - bottling,
drying, fermenting,
freezing, pickling,
using sugar - with
delicious recipes that
make the most of your
produce. This book is a
must for anyone that
wants to store and
preserve their garden
bounty.

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Grow Your Own Vegetables

Details: Like the idea of
the self-sufficient good
life? 'Grow Your Own
Vegetables' presents an
informative and
user-friendly guide to
realising your garden's
potential. Opening with
the persuasive case for
growing your own
vegetables - from
reducing your carbon
footprint to improving
your health and bank
balance - the book goes
on to present concise
instructions on how to
cultivate a successful
and satisfying vegetable
garden, ending with a
comprehensive directory
of vegetables, including
how and when to grow and
harvest, storage advice
and serving suggestions.
Ideal for: An
indispensable guide
perfect for those looking
to grow their own
vegetables. This
paperback book has 256
pages and measures: 16 x
17 x 1.7cm.

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Perfect Plant Perfect Place

New, updated, edition
of this invaluable
practical planner for
growing plants both in
the garden and the home,
from Roy Lancaster
Whether you are looking
for a towering tree to
mature in your garden,
or a geranium to flourish
on your kitchen
window-sill, make sure
you pick the perfect
plant with this
invaluable practical
planner from gardening
guru, Roy Lancaster.
Plan your planting using
Roy's personal plant
selections for a
comprehensive range of
sites, conditions and
design schemes. Over 1,
800 sumptuous colour
photographs help to
illustrate plant
recommendations. With
plant suggestions for all
indoor and outdoor
environments and
practical ideas for
problem situations - as
well as expert advice on
all aspects of caring for
your plants - you'll be
able to ensure your
garden and home blooms
all year round.

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London Gardener

Elspeth Thompson offers a
wealth of inspiring
ideas, together with
detailed practical
instructions, for
gardening in the city ?
in window boxes, on
balconies and roof
terraces, in allotments
and community gardens ?
or how about a bit of
guerrilla gardening? She
then takes the reader on
a tour of London gardens,
from Mayfair to Canary
Wharf. A helpful
directory of nurseries,
garden centers, shops
and markets completes the
book. The essential book
for every city gardener.

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Garden Detectives Handbook

Building on the success
of Nature Detectives
Handbook, this garden
handbook is the ultimate
wildlife identification
guide. To begin with the
reader explores the
garden through the
changing seasons, and is
encouraged to do fun
activities that also
benefit the environment,
such as making a bird
table. One hundred
different species are
included trees, flowers,
birds, bugs,
amphibians and mammals.
Each factfile not only
gives important
identification tips with
a wealth of detailed
artwork and a photo file,
but also vital stats,
including when, where,
size, colour and young.
Children are encouraged
to take photos, make
notes and fill in the
interactive bar.

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The Complete How To Be A
Gardener

Whether you're a complete
beginner or a keen
gardener, there are
always times when it
helps to have a reliable
expert at your side. In
The Complete How to be a
Gardener, Alan
Titchmarsh draws on his
extensive knowledge and
experience to give you a
comprehensive guide to
becoming a successful
gardener. Alan starts
with the fundamentals,
covering the absolute
essentials that every
gardener needs to know,
including information on
how plants work and what
they need to survive, as
well as where to begin if
you're a first-time
gardener. Each chapter
includes practical advice
and step-by-step
techniques and projects,
as well as information on
garden maintenance and a
host of Alan's favourite
plants to help you in
your selection. With its
perfect balance of
down-to-earth information
and inspirational garden
ideas, this complete
paperback edition of How
to be a Gardener gets to
the very heart of
gardening and provides a
comprehensive reference
manual for any garden
owner.

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The Thrifty Forager

Alys Fowler takes a fresh
look at foraging,
encouraging you to look
closer to home, from the
weeds in your garden to
the trees in your street,
rather than the fields
and hedgerows of the
countryside. Alys
showcases her favourite
edibles with a plant
directory packed with
useful information -
photographic
identification, plant
description and tips on
how to grow and how to
eat it (including
recipes) - that will give
you the confidence to
identify plants yourself.
The book also features
innovative ideas for
eating your local
landscape, from
community gardens in
Todmorden, UK to
Edimental (edible
ornamentals) gardens in
Norway - this is a
fast-growing, global
phenomenon that is fun,
environmentally friendly
and thrifty.

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Trees And Shrubs Encyclopedia

The complete encyclopedia
of trees and shrubs is a
useful work of reference
for both the
identification of trees
but also has great advice
on the best trees and
bushes to plant in your
own garden. It has
hundreds of beautiful
colour photos and handy
tips on cultivation.

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Allotment Month By Month, DK

For tasty, delicious
fruit and veg that hasn't
travelled halfway around
the world, you can't
beat home-grown produce
from your own allotment
or vegetable patch. This
folder-style book will
help you ensure your plot
provides fresh, healthy
food all year round.
Follow month-by-month,
easy-to-follow advice on
what to do on your
allotment and how to do
it. Pick up time saving
tips and techniques on
everything from pruning
to dealing with pests.
There's clear guidance on
when to sow, plant, and
harvest for excellent
results. Get more from
your allotment with this
indispensable companion.

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Treasury Of Garden Verse

From the RHS comes this
compendium of poetry
about gardens and garden
plants, themes that have
provided inspiration for
poets since the dawn of
time. The poems span many
centuries and include the
work of such great
writers as Wordsworth,
Spenser and Shakespeare.

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Thoughtful Gardening: Great
Plants, Great Gardens, Great
Gardeners

Thoughtful Gardening is
Robin Lane Fox's first
gardening book in
twenty-five years, and
marks the fortieth year
of his weekly columns on
gardening for the
Financial Times. It is
based on his own
selection from these
widely admired pieces,
which he has rewritten
and amplified with new
chapters to take readers
on a highly enjoyable
journey through each
season of the gardening
year. It draws on his
lifetime of practical
gardening, including his
years as Garden Master of
New College, Oxford,
and contains many
memories of fellow
gardeners, from
Christopher Lloyd to
Nancy Lancaster. The book
is essential reading for
anyone setting out on a
new garden or taking
stock of one. It takes a
critical look at fashions
of the moment and is full
of advice, ranging from
problems with badgers to
how to take root-cuttings
or choose flowering
trees, as well as
examples of gardens at
home and abroad which
Robin Lane Fox has
visited over many years.
Thoughtful Gardening
combines a principled
view of the craft of
gardening with dozens of
new ideas for planting
and visiting, and
touching reminders of the
power of literature and
art to deepen what we see
and realize in gardens of
our own.

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DVD 3 Pack - British Birds And
Bird Life

This wonderful collection
brings together three
superb volumes featuring
our favourite birds. Each
programme offers expert
advice and top tips on
identification,
behaviour and more as you
enjoy an amazing insight
into the world of birds
and how they live. From
town to woodland, field
to wetland and mountain
to coast, this is a
fascinating study,
featuring best-known
birds including Starling,
Nightingale, Barn Owl,
Kingfisher, Curlew,
Puffin and more. Volume
one focuses on two
habitats - towns, parks
and gardens plus
woodlands and forests.
The programme covers
identification,
behaviour and more,
accompanied by beautiful
footage of these
much-loved birds.
Includes Song Thrush,
Starling, Robin, Blue
Tit, Goldfinch,
Nightingale, Green
Woodpecker, Goldcrest,
Buzzard and Long-eared
Owl. Volume two focuses
on two habitats - fields
and farmland and lakes,
rivers and wetlands. The
programme covers
identification,
behaviour and more,
accompanied by beautiful
footage of these
much-loved birds.
Includes Barn Owl,
Lapwing, Magpie,
Skylark, Pheasant,
Kingfisher, Mallard,
Bittern, Grey Heron,
Wigeon and Mute Swan.
Volume three focuses on
two habitats - mountains,
moors and heaths and
coasts and cliffs. The
programme covers
identification,
behaviour and more,
accompanied by beautiful
footage of these
much-loved birds.Includes
Peregrine, Raven,
Golden Eagle, Curlew,
Hobby, Avocet, Puffin,
Kittiwake, Cormorant and
Gannet.

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The Most Amazing Gardens In
Britain And Ireland

The British passion for
gardens and gardening
stretches back hundreds
of years. This ha
produced an astonishing
array of horticultural
masterpieces both great
and small. This essential
guide selects the best
gardens throughout
Britain and Ireland,
from immense landscaped
parks to
pocket-handkerchief-sized
labours of love. Explore
gardens of great
botanical importance at
Wisely and Kew or wander
through the grand estates
of Stourhead, Stowe and
Chatsworth. Marvel at the
twisting landforms,
dramatic water features
and sculptures of the
exciting Garden of Comic
Speculation in Scotland.
Seek out hidden gems
tended to by enthusiasts,
such as the wave-shaped
yew hedge and black
reflecting pool of Veddw
House in Wales, or the
lush planting and eerie
Gothic follies of
Norfolk's Corpusty Mill
Garden. Whether you are
an avid plantlover or
simply seeking beauty and
peace, there are
destinations here to
satisfy every need. Both
a practical touring guide
and a rewarding read,
The Most Amazing gardens
in Britain and Ireland
offers: Evocative
descriptions of the
history, design,
plantings and special
features of each garden;
all the practical
information you need to
plan your trips and find
the gardens and over 140
beautiful photographs.

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Grow Vegetables

Enjoy food thats
fresh from plot to plate,
not flown halfway round
the world The sweetest
carrots, the juiciest
tomatoes, the most
tender green beans ? all
these and many more
delicious vegetable
varieties can be yours:
sown in your own garden,
reared with your own
hand, and savoured by
all. Growing your own
vegetables provides
delicious food fresh from
the soil without costing
the earth. Packed with
natural goodness, newly
pulled carrots, freshly
picked peas or potatoes
dug straight from the
ground are a healthy and
inexpensive alternative
to tasteless supermarket
fare. And it couldn?t be
easier. Discover how
planning and preparation,
basic tools and the most
rudimentary gardening
ability can transform an
allotment, garden,
patio, or even an urban
balcony into a homegrown
haven. Choose your crop
from easy-to-grow
varieties that require
minimum effort but
deliver excellent
results. You don?t need
green fingers to grow
great food.

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RHS Vegetable & Fruit
Gardening

Everything you need to
know about growing your
own, from the experts at
the RHS From onions to
figs, get the latest
advice on growing over
150 vegetables, herbs
and fruit with the new
edition of RHS Vegetable
& Fruit Gardening, the
expert guide to
everything you need to
know about kitchen
gardening. You'll find
easy-to-follow
step-by-steps of
tried-and-trusted
techniques, as well as
specialist tips on
seasonal tasks, yields
per crop, sowing and
harvesting times and
controlling pests and
diseases. Organic options
are considered throughout
and traditional gardening
practices are combined
with up-to-date methods
to guarantee success. RHS
Vegetable & Fruit
Gardening is the only
advice you need to grow
healthy and tasty crops
for your own table.

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Love Your Garden

Much-loved broadcaster
and bestselling author
Alan Titchmarsh has
returned to his gardening
roots as presenter of
ITV1's Love Your Garden.
In this hugely popular
show, Alan visits some
of Britain's most
beautiful domestic
gardens, and shows us
how to recreate the look
ourselves, with minimum
fuss. On each visit, he
also helps out with any
problems areas, and
suggest ways to improve
the design, while his
team of co-presenters,
Matt James, Valentine
Warner, Charlotte
Uhlenbrouk and Laetitia
Maklouf, are on hand
with advice on design,
growing your own food,
wildlife and craft. In
this essential
accompanying book, Alan
looks back on all twelve
gardens we saw in the
first series, which span
across a wide variety of
styles from a cottage
garden, a country garden
and a city garden through
to a seaside garden and a
formal garden. He takes
us through the practical
projects, step by step -
showing us how to build a
pond or create a wildlife
area - and includes the
ideas offered by his
co-presenters. Alan also
explores each theme in
greater depth, with
extra hints and tips on
everything from garden
design to choosing the
right plants, providing
a stand-alone practical
handbook to be enjoyed by
gardener of all levels,
and anybody who wants to
explore the joys of
outdoor living.

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101 Bold And Beautiful Flowers
- Gardeners World

Details: There is nothing
more stunning than a
garden bursting with
colour. Whether you want
glorious borders or
striking pots, 101 Bold
and Beautiful Flowers is
full of plant and garden
ideas, plus essential
advice on aftercare and
maintenance. Grouped by
colour and with advice on
each flower, you can
find the perfect plant
solutions for your
garden. With opulent
photography accompanying
every suggestion, this
little book is full of
floral inspiration. Ideal
for: Aspiring gardeners
who want to brighten up
their gardens with
colourful and vivid
flowers. This paperback
has 216 pages and
measures 15.5cm x 13.5cm
x 1.3cm

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Wildlife Habitats For Your
Garden

Wildlife Habitats for
Your Garden explains how
to successfully create
and maintain garden
habitats such as
woodlands, wetlands,
grasslands and rocklands.
Also included is a
chapter on creating these
habitats in containers.
You do not need to have a
large garden - the
smallest patios and
balconies can support
wildlife, even if just
to sustain passing
insects with nectar-rich
flowers. A chapter on
garden plans covers every
size of space - from
established gardens to a
small roof garden or
balcony.

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Crops In Pots

Details: Like the idea of
growing your own fruit,
veg and herbs but don't
have the room or energy?
'Crops in Pots' is a
user-friendly guide to
getting a taste of
self-sufficiency,
growing wherever you can
grab the space - whether
it be your patio,
balcony or window sill.
Apart from the many joys
of growing your own food,
the benefits of
container gardening are
manifold: accessibility,
portability, soil
choice, easier pest and
disease control... Find
out how to get started
and choose your pots,
how to grow and harvest -
including the most
appropriate crops for
small spaces, how to
deal with problems and
lots of great tips on how
to be successful on a
shoestring. Ideal for: A
great book for those
looking for gardening
inspiration. This
paperback book has 256
pages and measures: 16 x
17 x 1.7cm.

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The Edible Container Garden

No space is too small to
grow delicious and
healthy food. Enjoying
tasty and fresh produce
no longer requires a trip
to the local vege shop or
gourmet grocery. With The
Edible Container Garden
as your guide,
everything from salad
greens and savoury herbs
to luscious fruits and
vegetables can be as
close as your patio,
balcony, or rooftop. The
Edible Container Garden
explains how to plant,
grow and harvest
vegetables, edible
flowers, fruits and
herbs, when time and
space are limited.

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The Gardens Of Wales

The books in this series
offer a general
introduction capturing
the essence of a national
garden style and an
outline of its history,
followed by explorations
of representative
gardens, which allow the
author to explain in more
detail their character
and nature. This
exploration of the
gardens of Wales uncovers
an exciting range of
gardens, large and
small, public and
private, historic and
contemporary, all over
the country. Helena
Attlee's lively text
combines with Alex
Ramsay's evocative
photographs to convey a
rich treasury waiting to
be discovered.

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30 Minute Gardening

Shameless shortcuts for a
great garden super-fast
Love being in the garden
but not keen on spending
the whole weekend making
it look perfect? If so,
then 30 Minute Gardening
is just the book you've
been looking for. This
will have you sitting
down enjoying a drink on
the patio after just 30
minutes of stress-free,
guilt-free gardening.
Packed full of shameless
shortcuts and practical
tips and ideas that have
instant impact, all the
know-how is broken down
into simple steps and
picture sequences
including 122 projects on
creating beautiful
borders, perfect patio
pots and how to keep your
salad growing all summer.
30 Minute Gardening is
the perfect rescue remedy
for anyone who loves
gardening but has little
time on their hands. It's
all about how to have a
neat garden, a pretty
garden, a productive
garden...and still have a
life.

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