The Tree & Shrub Expert


Book Description

This guide provides information on all types of ornamental trees and shrubs for the ordinary garden including: choosing the right types, climbers and conifers, how to buy and plant, tree and shrub care and increasing your stock.




The Tree & Shrub Expert


Book Description

This guide provides information on all types of ornamental trees and shrubs for the ordinary garden including: choosing the right types, climbers and conifers, how to buy and plant, tree and shrub care and increasing your stock.




The House Plant Expert


Book Description

"The house plant expert Book two covers the new house plants which have been introduced in the last decade"--Back cover.




The New Tree and Shrub Expert


Book Description

Whatever the size of your garden, there is a tree, shrub or climber just right for it.The Tree & Shrub Expert contains an A-Z guide to over 800 varieties and offers advice on: - Choosing, buying and planting - How to prune - Feeding, mulching and training your plants - Picking the right plant for ground cover, borders and hedges - What plants where - including new and exotic varieties - Tress, shrubs and climbers for containers - Coping with pests and diseases Reliable, easy to follow advice and information from Expert Books - the world's best-selling gardening series.




The New Lawn Expert


Book Description

In this jam-packed and revised edition, readers will learn how to recognize types of lawns, maintain excellent care, and diagnose and cure lawn troubles. The lawn care program and calendar continue to be reader favorites. Full-color illustrations.




The House Plant Expert


Book Description

The House Plant Expert is one of the books in the Expert series written by the world's best-selling gardening author. Quite simply, the best-selling gardening book in the world. Over a million copies have been sold in the U.S, and nearly 14 million worldwide. According to one reviewer - "after the Bible, the best-selling reference book of all time." In a basketful of countries it has taught people how to choose and care for their indoor plants. Its style of dealing with each plant with drawings, photographs and no-nonsense text has become a legend in the publishing world. If you have house plants (and who doesn't?) you need this book.




The New Bedding Plant Expert


Book Description

An illustrated guide to buying, raising and using bedding plants.




The Fruit Expert


Book Description

The essential guide to growing all types of fruit. Everything you need to know about: Choosing the best apples, pears and plums for your garden. Planting and caring for tree fruit. Buying and growing soft fruit. Getting the best taste from your fruit. How to prune. Dealing with fruit problems and pests. Shop-bought fruit. Reliable, easy-to-follow advice and information from EXPERT books - the world's best-selling gardening series.




The Flowering Shrub Expert


Book Description

Over 250,000 copies sold! Did you know you could choose among more than 200 different types of flowering shrubs? That's how many you can learn to plant and care for here, with full-color photos of every bloom along with close-up drawings of each flowering parts, and a chart that shows the many colors available for each plant. From common plants to more exotic ones, you'll love this leafy tour that includes such shrubs as acacia, allspice, angelica, azalea, bird of paradise, buckeye, butterfly bush. A month-by-month guide shows how to enjoy shrubs in bloom every day of the year.




Trees and Shrubs of California


Book Description

"Finally a guide to the woody plants of wildland California! The easy-to-follow vegetative keys, revealing drawings, crisp color photos, and handy range maps combine to make this a beautiful, reader-friendly resource to the novice and the expert alike. Each species has a page of text, including notes on habitat, morphology, and economic importance."--Michael Barbour, editor of California's Changing Landscapes "I love this book. It is warmly welcome as a guide for California's avid public, a public that includes natural history lovers, conservationists, consultants, agencies, and public and private land managers. It is useful, useable, packed with accurate information, and cannot help but assist us in the difficult job of preserving our natural heritage."--Jake Sigg, President, California Native Plant Society