Description
Here, in one lavishly illustrated volume, is all you need to know about gardening and garden plants-
Here are plants for every season, flowers, trees, shrubs and bulbs to bring colour through the year – vegetables and fruits to keep the larder stocked and cut the cost of housekeeping-a pipe-dream turned into reality. If there is any mystery about gardening this book dispels it. It takes you step by step through every stage of making a garden, in a thoroughly practical yet stimulating way-
There are chapters devoted to:
Garden planning and design
The techniques of gardening
The rose garden
Trees, shrubs and climbers
Border plants
Bulbs, corms and tubers
The vegetable garden
Greenhouse gardening
Water gardens
Lawns
Rock gardens
and many other subjects
ln each section there are detailed lists of plants containing the most up-to-date varieties for your garden.
Whether you own a pocket-handkerchief plot in town or a couple of acres in the country, a greenhouse or just a window box, this book will tell you how to get the best from it.
Ward Lock’s Gardening in Colour is a comprehensive and colourful guide which is as essential to every gardener as his watering can.
Hardcover. 190 pages. In good preloved condition with the exception of tears to the back of the dust cover and a tiny name written on the first page before the title page. Lots of colourful photographs and great gardening advice.
