Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

Short Cuts to Great Gardens

1-85029-395-3

Nigel Colborn

Gardens and plans

Ideas to reduce the lead time to maturity in your garden. Short cuts planting schemes for hot spot, dry shade, annuals, exposed, bog and water, container and wild gardens. Short-cut good description plant list

Success with House Plants

0-89577-052-0

Reader's Digest

Houseplants

Good descriptions of houseplants with maintenance instructions, some with colour photo. Good essay on how to use plants indoors and another on how to maintain them.

Take the Hard Work Out of Gardening

0-340-55002-3

Consumers' Association

How to create an easy-care garden by stages with lists of plants

Taylor's Guide to Bulbs

0-395-40449-5

Taylor

466 bulbs

466 good descriptions, also name, height, flower length, hardiness, sun/shade, blooming time period data with its colour photo. Flower chart. Garden design with bulb plans, and bulb suggestions for different gardens

The Art of Planting

0-460-04640-3

Graham Stuart Thomas

150 pages of plant lists for different purposes. Planting design methodology

The BBC Gardeners' World Directory

0-563-37154-4

Geoff Hamilton

Lists to aid the gardener from the BBC Gardeners' World team

The Beekeeper's Garden

0-7136-3023-X

Ted Hooper & Mike Taylor

Plants for bees

Beginner's bee-keeping data, planning a bee garden, good descriptions of bee plants and hedges

The Border Book

0-7513-0084-5

Anna Pavord

Plants and plant schemes

Demystifies the art of creating effective plant associations and provides a diversity of border planting plans with good descriptions of plants with colour photos for those sites. Lists of plants for different sites

The City Gardener

0-00-715568-9

Matt James

A city garden is usually small and this books gives lists of plants that do well as well as ones to avoid as bad or ugly.

The Cottage Gardener's Companion A seasonal guide to plants & plantings for informal gardens

0-7153-0020-2

Clive Lane of the Cottage Garden Society

Cottage garden Plant associations. Essays on spring, summer, autumn and winter plants. Great book for cottage garden plants

The Flower Arranger's Garden Month-by-Month

0-7153-0296-5

Leila Aitken

Line drawings

Garden flowers for arranging table with flower colour group/plant name row and flowering season month column. Good description of flower arrangers garden plants for each month with 2 practical flower arrangement projects

The Flower Colour Directory

0-00-412655-6

John Dale and Kevin Gunnell

1000 plants

Instructions on planting for colour. Good descriptions of plants split into 9 colours, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, white and assorted colours.

The Flower Garden Planner

0-224-02218-0

Ethne Clarke

140 garden plant press-out illustrations

140 press-out flower illustrations with good descriptions. Open folds of the border page, press out the plants selected and "plant" in 3 rows of border to give colour and shape of proposed garden

The Garden Bench

1-85145-785-2

Mirabel Osler

Garden Seats

Pictures of different garden seats

The Garden Bird Book

0-333-33151-6

David Glue

Birds

Plants useful to birds' list. Essay on bird garden design

The Gardener's Guide to Bulbs

1-8573-2178-2

Brian Mathew Philip Swindells

Bulbs

750 Good descriptions of spring, summer, autumn and winter bulbs. Advice on how and where to use bulbs with planting schemes

The Gardening Which? Guide to Small Gardens

0-85202-587-4

Ruth Chivers

Gardens and planting plans

16 Design ideas for small gardens with hard landscaping and planting planning

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

0-7112-0746-1

Richard Bisgrove

Gardens and planting plans

Jekyll plants chapter gives the benefit that derives from a disciplined and positive use of a few good plants at a time. Bisgrove has selected the best of jekyll's plans, analyzed and interpreted them to explain jekyll's design ideas and methodology

The HDRA Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.

0-7513-3381-6

Pauline Pears

300 pictures

The complete guide to natural & chemical-free gardening.