Ivydene Gardens Library:
Plant Type Books: A-H

Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

A handbook of annuals and bedding plants

0-7099-2277-9

Graham Rice

20 annuals

Good descriptions of annuals and bedding plants

All about ground covers

0-89721-010-7

Ortho Books

Ground cover plants

Selected plant lists. 200 ground cover good descriptions with colour photograph.

Annuals and biennials

0-7513-0448-4

Linden Hawthorne

500 annuals and biennials

500 good descriptions of biennials and annuals with colour photos split into large, medium or small heights

Ask me about summer bulbs

International Bloembellen Centrum

24 bulbs

General data about cultivation and which bulbs to use as summer flowers. Thin Booklet

Ask me about spring bulbs

International Bloembellen Centrum

24 bulbs

General data about cultivation and which bulbs to use as spring flowers. Thin Booklet

Best foliage shrubs

0-600-57735-X

Stefan Buczacki

150 Shrubs

Selected foliage shrubs for high performance, easy growing and year-round colour

Cherries production and culture

1-874275-33-5

Martin Crawford

Agroforestry research trust booklet detailing sour, duke and sweet cherry varieties with their pests and diseases

Complete guide to garden plants Identifying and growing over 1000 garden plants

0-86272-732-4

Brian Davis

307 flowers

Plant chart shows all cultivation requirements of all 307 perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses whose good descriptions and colour photo appear in this book

Conifers

0-7117-0152-0

Adrian Bloom

Conifers and garden plan

Dwarf and slow growing conifer good descriptions, some with colour photo. lists of slow growing and dwarf conifers for different uses. 32 page Thin Booklet

Creating a wild flower garden

Jonathan Andrews

Plant illustrations

Good essay descriptions of wild flowers according to their flowering season, with propagation details. 6 garden plans. Table of wildflowers to attract named variety butterflies and/or/ caterpillars

Cultivated plants of the world Trees. Shrubs. Climbers

1-876060-00-X

Don Ellison

2000 plants

Pictorial dictionary of trees, shrubs and climbers

Dwarf and slow-growing conifers

0-304-31128-6

John Bond and Lynn Randall

Conifers

Good descriptions of dwarf and slow-growing conifers, some with colour photo. Thin Booklet

Essential annuals the 100 best for design and cultivation

0-517-66177-2

Elizabeth Murray

100 annuals

Lists of annuals for different purposes. 100 good descriptions with colour photo. 5 annual garden plans. Good annuals book

Fragrant gardens

0-7063-6549-6

Jane Taylor

Fragrant flowers

Fragrant plant lists with essay on fragrant plants for spring, midsummer, high summer and autumn/winter

Fruit

1-85732-905-8

Harry Baker

Diagrams

RHS good descriptions about soft fruit, tree fruits and warm temperature fruits with cultivar details. Cultivation details

Garden Guides Fuchsias & Bedding Plants

0-7525-1584-5

David Myers

230 colour photos of plants

How to select and use some fuchsias. Enables you to design spring and summer bedding and to use the same plants as fillers in beds and borders. Small thin book

Gardeners' world plants for small gardens

0-563-36301-0

Sue Fisher

50 Gardens

Essay of plants for different plant types. Plant lists - to attract wildlife, winter colour, drought-tolerant for a sunny site, and for a compact cottage garden

Growing fragrant plants

0-06-016073-X

Rayford Clayton Reddell and Robert Galyean

Plants

Essay versions of good descriptions of all fragrant garden plants

Guide to garden plants

1-85813-205-3

Brian Davis

300 flowers

1000 good descriptions of perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses arranged in seasonal flower order.

Hardy foliage plants

0-600-36809-2

Richard Gorer

Good descriptions of evergreen trees and shrubs, deciduous trees and shrubs, herbaceous, alpine, grasses and ferns hardy foliage plants with tree and shrub list. A foliage plant is an object of beauty even if it is not in flower.

Hedges and Screens

J. Coutts

Good description of utility, evergreen and deciduous hedges and screens

Hedges how to select, plant and grow a living fence

0-7090-5566-8

Jeffrey Whitehead

24 hedges

Lists of hedge plants with practical descriptions