Practical Gardener

Designed for people with little or no gardening experience, this fully illustrated book presents the straight facts and easy to understand guidelines that will help thousands embark on this rewarding pastime with confidence.

This guide tackles every aspect of gardening in four sections: planning and design; season by season gardening tasks; selecting the right plants; and indoor gardening. Includes design basics, how to create features such as walls and ponds; and dealing with difficult sites. Contains over 2000 colour photos.

Written with passion and packed with practical information, Monty Don's The Complete Gardener is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn how to garden. Here, gardening legend Monty Don reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment by gardening organically. Grounded in his own experience, Monty's straightforward gardening advice is paired with extraordinarily beautiful photographs taken over the course of a year in his own garden, taking you on a tour of his flower garden, herb garden, kitchen garden, and more.

Step by step, each double-page spread of this Comprehensive book covers a different aspect .of gardening with practical advice and essential information. Learn how to create a lawn, a boundary or vegetable garden, build a patio or pond, more. With profiles of more than 250 plants, features on environmentally friendly gardening, sections of greenhouse gardening, shrubs and hedges, lots more. More than 700 full-color photographs.