Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

Gardening With Bulbs

1-85793-799-6

Patrick Taylor

Bulbs

Good description of bulbs with lists for different locations and specific qualities

Gardening Without Chemicals

0-340-52769-X

Which? Books

Trouble-free herbaceous perennials, trees and shrubs, roses, fruit, and vegetables cultivar data lists

Hedges & Boundaries

0-86101-217-8

Alan Toogood

Formal, informal and internal hedge, screens and tall screen cultivar data lists. Wall, fence and gates basic construction details

Herbaceous Perennials

1-85501-419-X

David Squire

Cultivation details for herbaceous beds with perennial plant lists for different conditions

Led by the Nose a Garden of Smells

0-285-63653-7

Jenny Joseph

List 1 is plants and which months they smell in 26 pages. List 2 is months and what you might smell in each. List 3 is plants and what to do when. List 4 is months and what you might be doing in each. List 5 is roses

Making the Most of Conifers and Heathers

0-903001-61-6

Adrian Bloom

Conifers and heathers

A calendar list of flowering heathers. Conifer lists for 1) miniature gardens, troughs and sinks, 2) winter colour, 3) large containers and 4) ground cover

Notcutts Waterers Plant Buyer's Guide

Notcutts

Plant cultivar data and prices in Notcutts Nursery Catalogue

Perfect Plant Perfect Place

0-7513-3592-4

Roy Lancaster

1800 colour photos of plants

6-10 plants with photo, width, height, sun/shade and hardiness for each site condition either in the house or outside with 10 more suggested plants. Usefull short lists but the tree suggestions are too big for most modern gardens in UK. (30 feet high by 2 feet wide is fine, but 20 feet high by 20 feet wide is too big). Try to only plant for the eventual height and width, unless you are planting for topiary or hedging. You can always put groundcover perennials in between these trees/shrubs which can then be overgrown by those trees/shrubs.

Reader's Digest Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses

0-276-42245-7

John Mattock

250 roses

Good descriptions of roses with colour photo split into 19 categories of use

RHS Good Plant Guide

0-7513-0812-9

Simon Maughan

1000 colour photos of plants

3000 recommended plants with 57 lists of plants for different soils, containers or uses.

RHS Plants for Places

0-7513-0983-4

Lin Hawthorne and Simon Maughan

1000 colour photos of plants

1000 tried and tested plants for every site, soil and usage. Lists for clay soils, sandy soils, chalk and limestone soils, acid soils, exposed sites, hedges, coastal gardens, hot and dry sites, dry sites in shade, damp sites in shade, north and east facing walls, south and west facing walls, ground cover in sun, ground cover in shade, walls and paving, reliably moist soils, water gardens, containers in sun, containers in shade, shape and structure, wildlife gardens and cutting and drying.

Right Plant, Right Place

0-330-29656-6

Nicola Ferguson

1400 plants

1400 good descriptions of plants in lists of different growing conditions, purposes and appearance

Scent in Your Garden

0-7112-1044-6

Stephen Lacey

1000 of the best plants - trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, annuals and perennials, wall shrubs, climbers, rock plants, water and bog, roses, herbs, conservatory and tender plants - to grow for fragrance are described

Stone, Rock & Gravel Natural features for modern gardens

1-84188-118-X

Kathryn Bradley-Hole

Shows how to combine garden rocks with water, outdoor structures and plants. Plant directory and lists of plants looking good during 12 time periods

The Garden Planner

0-00-412575-4

Ashley Stephenson

Flowers and gardens

Essay on plants for different sites.

The Garden Tree

1-84188-07-8

Alan Mitchell and Allen Coombes

500 trees in colour

22 lists of trees for different purposes with alphabetical list of 500 trees accompanied by colour photo, cultivation data, soil requirements, foliage, growth rates and height at 10, 20 years and maturity.

The Gardening Which? Guide to Successful Perennials

0-85202-657-9

Liz Dobbs

160 perennials

How to grow 160 hardy perennials with descriptions detailing shape and size, position, hardiness, good companions, soil, uses and feature calendar

The Gardening Which? Guide to Successful Shrubs

0-85202-810-5

Elizabeth Dobbs

100 colour

Sun, shade and soil requirements, hardiness and potential usage of each shrub is indicated in plant care icons. The shape and height of each shrub in 5, 10 years and maturity is given. Good lists of shrubs for different purposes.

The Hillier Gardener's Guide to Trees & Shrubs

0-7153-0130-6

John Kelly

Plants

32 pages of plant lists for plant selection purposes. Descriptions of trees and shrubs without height and spread, some with colour photo

The Living Garden

0-86318-091-4

Michael Chinery

Practical suggestions for increasing your garden's animal life with plant lists

The National Plant Collections Directory 1994

NCCPG

600 national plant collections list