| Edition |
Revised US edition, Rev. & expanded edition. |
| Description |
752 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
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Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Garden planning and design -- Ornamental trees -- Ornamental shrubs -- Climbing plants -- Roses -- Perennials -- Annuals and biennials -- Bulbous plants -- Rock, scree, and gravel gardening -- Water gardening -- Container gardening -- Cacti and other succulents -- Indoor gardening -- The lawn -- Growing herbs -- Growing fruit -- Growing vegetables -- -- Tools and equipment -- Greenhouses and frames -- Structures and surfaces -- Climate and the garden -- Soils and fertilizers -- Principles of propagation -- Plant problems -- Basic botany. |
| Summary |
Thoroughly revised and updated, a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide for amateur or professional horticulturists provides authoritative advice on garden creation and maintenance and includes hundreds of step-by-step photographic sequences of cultivation techniques for all kinds of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. |
| Subject |
Gardening -- Encyclopedias.
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Gardening -- Pictorial works.
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| Added Author |
Brickell, Christopher.
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American Horticultural Society.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of gardening |
| ISBN |
0789496534 |
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