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500 Best Garden Plants

1-85145-925-6

Patrick Taylor

300 plants

500 best bulbs, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, climbers and wall plants, and trees according to merits of foliage, habit, bark, berries, bud and scent. Lists of plants for moist shade, dry shade, light shade, sunny and dry, sunny in rich soil, very moist soil

An Introduction to Gardening in Sinks and Containers

Valerie Wheeler

Lists of plants suitable for sinks and troughs. Thin Booklet

Annuals and Biennials

0-9006-2998-3

Ralph Gould

Black and White annuals and biennials

Plant lists for different locations with growing data. Thin Booklet

Award of Garden Merit Plants

1-874431-13-2

Royal Horticultural Society

The RHS award of garden merit recognises plants of outstanding excellence for garden decoration or use, whether grown in the open or under glass. The alphabetical lists of plants are split into 1) hardy trees and shrubs, 2) hardy herbaceous plants, 3) plants for rock garden and alpine house, 4) plants for glass, including house and conservatory plants and 5) fruit and vegetables

Best ever garden plants

choosing the best plants for your garden

1-84309-757-5

Susan Berry and Steve Bradley

300 identification colour photos

The lists have been split into the following:- Plants for Dry Sun, Shade, Acid Soils, Alkaline Soils, Clay Soils and Moisture-loving. The plants have been chosen on the basis of godd overall performance: they are all easy to grow and have more than one good feature. They are a cross-section of trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, climbers, bulbs and roses. Be carefull with the height and spread of the trees selected for a small garden!

Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants choosing the best hardy plants for your garden

0-00-412329-8

Alan and Adrian Bloom

Plants

15 Plant lists for different situations. Good descriptions, some with colour photo of hardy plants - perennials, grasses and hardy ferns, alpines, conifers, heathers and shrubs with planting plans

Brogdale Plant Portfolio

Brogdale

Brogdale now has 2300 varieties of apple, 550 pear, 350 plums, 220 cherry, 320 varieties of bush fruits, and nuts and vines. Gives list of fruit with good flavour, details of soil analysis service, fruit variety source and description, with fruit tree order form Thin Booklet

Building Green A guide to using plants on roofs, walls and pavements

1-871045-18-5

Jacklyn Johnston and John Newton

Guide for architects, landscape designers and developers wishing to take a more ecological approach to urban design. Includes sections on courtyards, balcony gardens, green walls, building for birds and bats, green roofs. Lists of trees for urban situations, plants for containers on balcony or terrace, walls, and extensive green roofs

Companion Plants and How to Use Them

Helen Philbrick and Richard B. Gregg

Bio-Dynamic method of farming and gardening is based on the mutual influences of living organisms. Contains the companionate alphabet showing what can help plants.

Dream Plants for the Natural Garden

0-7112-1737-8

Henk Gerritsen & Piet Oudolf

250 colour photos

Personal choice of 1200 most beautiful and most dependable plants from piet oudolf and henry gerritsen. These are split into tough, playful and troublesome perennials

English Plants for Your Garden

0-7112-1435-2

Jill Duchess of Hamilton, Penny Hart and John Simmons

Profiles of 200 native plants in herbaceous and trees, shrubs and climber sections. Directory of all English native plants with their Latin names with common names

Flowerbulbs in the Landscape Information for landscape designers and horticulturalists

International Flower Bulb Centre

Which bulbs are suitable for which public section is detailed. A list of bulbs with companion plants is given. A poster showing colour, height, flowering period, habitat and soil type is included. Thin Booklet

Garden Trees step by step to growing success

1-85223-576-4

David Carr

50 broad-leaved and coniferous trees

Tree maintenance. Good descriptions of trees and conifers suitable for a garden. Lists of trees for - containers, small gardens, quick-growing, cold sites, to avoid in town gardens, for walls, drought-tolerant, screens and windbreaks, tolerant of wet heavy soils, and for chalk soils

Gardener's Fact Finder

0-600-57697-3

Graham Clarke

Plant Lists for the vegetable, flower and home gardens , with pests and diseases list to aid the gardener from the Amateur Gardening magazine team