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RHS Gardening Through the Year (Hardcover)
By: Ian Spence
The essential guide to gardening all year round. With specific monthly tasks for every part of the garden, expert plant advice, tips on organisation and over 1,000 photographs, this is the garden reference that not only tells you what to do when, but also shows you how to do it.
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The Gardening Book (Hardcover)
By: Jane Bull
Designed with children in mind, what better way to get them interested in gardening with this fun-filled, attractively laid-out book on the subject. There's fun things for them to create throughout the year whether they live in a city flat or out on a farm. Includes sections on basic gardening skills, creative techniques and craft activities.
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RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening (RHS) (Hardcover)
By: Christopher Brickell
This new edition is fully updated to include new styles, plants and the latest developments in horticulture, including organic gardening and the effects of global warming. Whatever your level of skill in the great outdoors, expert tips and guidance from editor Christopher Brickell and his team of specialist contributors will help you create and keep your perfect garden all year round.
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Easy Gardening (Daily Telegraph) (Hardcover)
By: Miranda Beaufort, Jane Nicholas and John Glover
Questions of what to plant where tax many gardeners - novices especially. What plants will look good with each other? How can you make a planting that will be attractive for more than a few weeks of the year? What can you plant in a 'difficult' spot?
This book makes beautiful planting easy by providing recipes for a variety of garden situations. Each recipe has a shopping list of what plants you need and how many. A planting plan shows how to position them and you're given all the information you need on how to look after them.
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RHS What Plant When (Hardcover)
By: DK
With colour photographs and at-a-glance information for over 1,000 plants, the experts at the RHS give you the best plants for each month from bright spring bulbs to luscious evergreens in a handy pocket-sized format. Arranged by season (starting with early spring) and then by colour with loads of information about each plant.
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RHS New Gardening: How to Garden in a Changing Climate (Hardcover)
By: Mathew Wilson
'New Gardening' is a practical guide to a way of gardening that is in tune with nature, not against it. The information in the book is accessible and is beautifully written. The abundant photographs are attractive, well chosen and many show inspirational and beautiful gardens.
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