Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers
by Visiting Fellow John Wood
Trees and shrubs can bring regal silhouettes and spectacular foliage to any home landscape. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to design, plant, and maintain a beautiful and thriving woody garden. With detailed profiles of hundreds of tree and shrub varieties that include information on availability, size, hardiness, and special characteristics, Penelope O'Sullivan shows you how to use these plants to add structure and texture to your outdoor space. Create a vivacious la...
Bibliography of Cultivated Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the Cooler Temperate Regions of the Northern Hemisphere
by A Rehder
Whether landscaping a new house or sprucing up an old one, readers will find this a unique and indispensable guide. The Tree and Shrub Finder is organized to help the homeowner choose plants for their beauty as well as for other features, such as privacy, shade, low-maintenance care, and even "kid-friendliness" for treehouses and hammocks. Also included are little-known tricks for plant care.
With their abundance of flower, handsome foliage, robust constitution, and frequently stunning fruits, viburnums are among the most beautiful and versatile hardy shrubs available to gardeners. Yet despite these outstanding qualities, there has never been an entire volume devoted to them - until now. In this definitive, comprehensive, generously illustrated guide, internationally renowned woody plant expert Michael Dirr provides a wealth of information about every species and cultivar worthy of h...
Trees for Small Gardens (Gardeners' Pocket Picture Guides)
by Brian Davis
The versatility and beauty of hostas makes them one of the most popular and rewarding foliage plants. Whether you use larger hostas to create a stately summer border or dwarf varieties to enliven a rocky or aquatic environment, they are reliable, attractive and relatively low-maintenance. Flourishing even in containers, hostas are truly plants for every situation.
Part history and part practical guide, Thomas begins by tracing the influence of the English landscape movement of the 18th century, and in particular Humphry Repton's principles, on the way we use trees to create landscapes. He then addresses the basics, telling the reader how to evaluate trees in the landscape, how to predict their future growth and shape, and how to apply these lessons to the art of making new landscapes. He explains the technique for creating perspectives, concealing boundar...
The encyclopedia includes 2000 high-quality images and essential cultivation data for more than 1700 plants. The data includes size, flower colour and timing, stem colour, fruits, and autumn colour, preferred position, soil needs, pruning requirements, and, where applicable, the RHS Award of Garden Merit. This important new book is the essential reference on the subject that no discerning horticulturist, landscape designer, or gardener should consider being without. Comprehensive representation...
Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers (2nd Ed.)
by George E. Brown and Tony Kirkham
How, when, and where to prune? The questions that beset every gardener never change, but the solutions do. The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers recommends the best pruning techniques and practices. This unique encyclopaedic treatment details the best pruning methods for more than 450 genera of trees, shrubs, conifers, and woody climbers. The A-Z format covers several thousand species, yet remains a manageable and practical reference. Kirkham clearly explains the reasons behind pruning t...
