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Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

Ferns for home and garden

1-85422-888-9

Theo Schildkamp

100 ferns

Good descriptions with photographs

Ferns, Mosses & Lichens of Britain

0-00-219254-3

Hans Martin Jahns

Ferns, mosses and lichens

Good plant descriptions with colour photographs

Field guide to the trees of Britain and Europe

1-85368-104-0

Bob Press

450 trees and diagrams

Good descriptions with colour photo. Key to trees section to identify trees by their leaves, fruit and bark

Foliage colour

0-7548-0666-9

Bryan Greenwood

50 coloured foliage plants

Plant catalogue of blue, yellow and gold, orange and brown, red, purple and black, with greys and silver foliage plants with height, spread, flower colour and months description

Fuchsias a colour guide

1-85223-927-1

George Bartlett

700 fuchsias

2000 good descriptions of fuchsias, 700 with colour photographs

Fuchsias for greenhouse and garden

1-85152-543-2

David Clark

Fuchsia colour photos

A complete guide to growing fuchsias with fuchsia cultivar detailed list.

Fuchsias. Practical advice on how to grow and care for your fuchsias

0-947793-85-2

Leo B. Boullemier

 

Descriptions with some photographs. Maintenance and cultivation

Fungi of Britain and northern Europe

1-85152-810-5

Paul Sterry

250 fungi

Good descriptions of fungi with colour photo

Gardener's World Pocket Plants Water Garden Plants

0-563-38418-2

Andi Clevely

75 water plants

Good descriptions with photographs. Thin book

Gardeners' encyclopedia of plants and flowers

0-86318-386-7

Christopher Brickell

4000 Plants

6 pages of plant lists. Photographic and good descriptive guides to over 4000 garden plants, arranged by plant type, size, season of interest and colour.

Gardening with camellias A complete picture

0-7134-7886-1

Jim Rolfe

175 camellias

Annotated list of 400 camellias with cultivar data. Landscaping with camellias includes lists for shrubbery, specimen trees, standards, hedging and ground cover. Companion plants.

Grow your own fruit

 

Ken Muir

 

Description of fruit with photographs.

Guide to Woodland Plants

 

Richard and Mavis Gulliver

41 plant pictures

Common woodland plant key to identify plant names with short description and picture. Thin booklet

Handy guide to heathers

0-9519160-0-9

David & Anne Small

1000 good descriptions split into genera andromeda, bruckenthalia, calluna, daboecia and erica Thin booklet

Hardy geraniums

0-304-32061-7

David Hibberd

Hardy geraniums

Cultivar data of hardy geraniums, some with colour photo. 22 leaves in a colour plate, 35 flowers in another. Lists of geraniums by colour.

Hebes here and there

0-9530940-0-6

Graham Hutchins

300 hebe illustrations

Good descriptions with illustration

Hosta the flowering foliage plant

0-7134-5072-X

Diana Grenfell

49 hostas

Good descriptions of hostas. Hosta uses lists.

How to identify flowering plant families

0-917304-21-7

John Philip Baumgardt

Diagrams of flower families

Analyses of flower structure, floral diagrams, and floral formulae to enable identification of plant in its correct familial relationship

Hydrangeas a gardener's guide

0-7134-7274-X

Toni Lawson-Hall and Brian Rothera

Hydrangeas

Good descriptions of hydrangeas with colour photograph

Iris

0-7470-1803-0

Fritz Kohlein

210 irises

General information and good descriptions of irises. Flowerings sequence list of irises, whose flowers start end of February to middle of July. Iris for confined plantings, planting in the open, water gardens and artificial bogs, dwarf iris and collector's varieties

Irises for the water garden

0-901483-34-6

Angela Marchant

 

Details which irises can be planted in water, in bog areas or close to streams. Thin Booklet

Lavender, sweet lavender

0-86417-601-5

Judith A. Mcleod

 

Lavender in the garden essay. Lavender descriptions with illustrations

Lilies

1-57335-490-2

Richard Bird

150 lilies

Good descriptions with colour photographs of lilies and lily hybrids

Making the most of clematis

0-903001-36-5

Richard J. Evison

Clematis

Glossary gives name, principal colour, size and shape of flower, height, facing position, flowering months, pruning, outstanding features and most suitable position or host of 100 clematis. Essays on which clematis may be used where.

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