Gardeners puzzled by recommendations to "buy a swoe", or confused when trying to understand the difference between "linear" and "obovate" leaves will find answers here -- in understandable English and precise diagrams. Complete Gardener's Dictionary defines more than 2,500 botanical terms and garden-related terms, translating technical information into simple language. It gives readers listings and definitions of a wide array of common gardening terms and practices, garden tools and their specific uses, landscape methods, horticulture, soil analysis and care, fertilizing, controlling pests and diseases, and many other related topics. The book features unusually handsome and botanically accurate black-and-white line art -- approximately 500 illustrations in all.
- ISBN10 0764106376
- ISBN13 9780764106378
- Publish Date 31 December 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Peterson's Guides,U.S.
- Imprint Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 313
- Language English