The Garden Diy Expert

This guide to garden DIY includes information on every aspect of garden features and maintenance from erecting walls, fences, watering systems and greenhouses to information on play areas, barbecues, maintenance of garden equipment and materials.

This book attempts to set out the fundamental principles to become a great gardener with careful observation and practical experience. "A garden is for its owner's pleasure."

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

If you don't have the time, ability or desire to tend to your garden full time, then The Easy-Care Gardening Expert is the book for you.The Easy-care approach can provide a garden which is attractive and looks well-tended, without all the time-consuming, physically demanding work a traditional garden needs.This is a new way of gardening where time-wasting tasks are reduced or eliminated, with advice on: How to make your lawn easier to manage Choosing easy-care trees, shrubs and fruit and vegetables Beating the time wasters Using work saving techniques Avoiding strain and injury Beating common pests and diseases

If you've ever looked at the weed-filled expanse that passes for your backyard and wondered why your family never uses it, then this book is for you. Sara Bendrick, host of I Hate My Yard! and Build It Like Bendrick, addresses the most common homeowner requests for affordable ways to bring privacy, shade, dining areas, fire features and manageable plantings into their yards to increase their enjoyment of outdoor spaces and increase the value of their home.

A not-so-mini trend The Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop is the next big thing for the crafters and gardeners already captivated by gardening small. Organized by playful themes—including gardens around the world, holidays, and fantasy gardens—it’s a fun-filled guide to creating one-of-a-kind gardens and the accessories that make them shine. Thirty-seven projects are included with fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions. For a Japanese garden, you will learn how to create a miniature sand garden. For a Halloween garden, you'll learn how to make a flying ghost and zombie. And for a space garden, you'll learn how to make a tiny space ship and alien. The Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop is for anyone enchanted by the whimsy of creating a tiny world.

Provides instructions for installing and equiping greenhouses and discusses plants suited for growing under glass, the car of both the plants and the equipment, diseases and pests that can infect greenhouses, and related topics.

Sets out what you need to know in order to look after your garden. This title shows you how to care for wildlife, the environment and your own well-being. It shows you how to choose the right plants for the right place, and how to plant and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables and wild flowers.