Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

50 Recipes for Colourful Hanging Baskets

0-7063-7557-2

Richard Bird

50 hanging baskets with planting diagram

50 hanging basket plant combinations with planting and maintenance instructions

Awkward Corners

0-7063-6705-7

Alan Toogood

Planting plans with descriptions of plants for awkward garden corners

A-Z of Companion Planting

0-304-34324-2

Pamela Allardice

Essays on companions of each plant described with scientific findings, folklore, herbal remedies and recipes; plants in alphabetical order

Classic Plant Combinations

1-85029-994-3

David Stuart

Plant combinations

Photos of classic plant combinations for 1) climbers and wall plants, 2) woodland and water, 3) kitchen gardens, 4) wildflower meadows, 5) cottage borders, and 6) plantsmen's borders

Companion Gardening

1-85626-054-2

Bob Flowerdew

Using plant companions in the ornamental and productive gardens

Companion Planting

0-7225-0694-5

Gertrud Franck

Essay on companion planting in vegetable garden

Companion Planting how to choose and use plants that thrive together

0-7472-0207-9

Richard Bird

Plants

Plant list deters pests, plant list is host to insects, and plant list controls pests, tables of vegetables/herbs/fruit with good companions and poor companions. List of red/orange/yellow flower plants.

Conifers and Heathers

1-85501-004-6

Alan Toogood

Conifers and heathers

Good descriptions of heathers and small conifers, some with photo. Essays on use of these plants. Cultivation and maintenance instructions.

Flower Bulbs Among the Green

International Flower Bulb Centre

Bulbs

Combinations for borders of other perennials with bulbs. Perennial bulb genus data of habitat, soil requirements, moist, application, spreading, flowering months, and planting density table. Thin Booklet

Gardening for Fragrance

0-706-6744-8

Jane Taylor

Flowers and diagrams

Essay on fragrant plant associations. Plant description tables – trees with fragrant flowers, trees with aromatic bark, wood or leaves, shrubs with fragrant flowers, shrubs with aromatic foliage, climbers with fragrant flowers, herbaceous plants with fragrant flowers, herbaceous plants with aromatic foliage, annuals and biennials with fragrant flowers, bulbs with fragrant flowers.

Gardening in Miniature a practical guide to making the most of small plants in the garden

0-7063-7080-5

Martin Baxendale

plants, line drawings and planting plans

Miniature plant lists of - rock, small perennial border, dwarf bulbs, small and miniature shrubs, and dwarf conifers. Essays on miniature plants for different sites

Gardening in Shade

0-460-86020-8

Jane Taylor

16 flowers

Good essay on rhododendron woodland with companion plants as well as all the other shade areas

Gardening With Bulbs. A practical guide

0-7078-0320-9

Cathy Buchanan

20 bulbs

Data from 10 national trust head gardener's about bulbs. Detailed bulb information about where to put them

Gardening With Old Roses

0-304-34354-4

Alan Sinclair & Rosemary Thodey

Roses

Companion plants for old roses essay. How to use roses in different situations as essay

Hemerocallis Daylilies

0-7134-7065-8

Walter Erhardt

38 daylilies

Lists of different types with flower colour details, some with colour photo. Cultivation details. Companion plant good descriptions in lists by colour

Ivies

0-7137-2159-6

Peter Q. Rose

71 ivies

125 good descriptions of ivies, some with colour photo. Essay on suggested ivies for different garden locations

Ornamental Grasses

0-00-412603-3

Alan Toogood

Grasses

60 good descriptions of grasses, some with colour photos. Essay of grass/plant combinations for different sites. Thin Booklet

Plant Partners

0-7513-0355-0

Anna Pavord

Creative plant associations for perennials. Also lists of alternative plants with the star plant

Planting Companions

1-900518-23-6

Jill Billington

Plant combinations

How to combine plants in the garden

Plants for Ground-Cover

0-460-12609-1

Graham Stuart Thomas

111 ground cover plants

Lists of plants for – requiring lime-free soils, thrive in limy soils, tolerate clay, dry shady places, moist soils, shady positions, hot sunny places on dry soils, maritime districts, which create barriers, for town gardens, covering rose-beds. Good descriptions in alphabetically ordered tables of ground cover shrubs, climbing plants, conifers, herbaceous, grasses and rushes, and ferns. Good essays on how to use these plants in private gardens

Reader's Digest Guide to Creative Gardening

Reader's Digest

Plants and gardens

A guide to the best plants and how to use them - annuals and biennials, perennials, bulbs, climbing plants, rock garden plants, roses, shrubs, trees, water garden plants. Index and plant selection chart of all these plants. Plant lists for special purposes. Some plant associations are given in photographic/essay form.