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RHS How to Garden DK

RHS How to Garden By DK

RHS How to Garden by DK


$36.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Just about to start your first ever gardening project, or looking to improve an existing plot? This guide features top tips to guide you every step of the way with advice and photographs. It covers topics ranging from bulbs to borders, weeds to watering, pick up gardening techniques, and simple skills which can have your garden blooming.

RHS How to Garden Summary

RHS How to Garden: A Practical Introduction to Gardening by DK

Whether you're a beginner gardener or looking for gardening tips to improve your existing gardening skills, this is the complete guide on how to garden from the experts at the RHS, now with a new-look jacket.

Want to know how to plant in containers or how to create a successful vegetable garden? Whatever your level of expertise, you'll find everything you need to know in this easy-to-follow guide.

From bulbs to borders, weeds to watering, pick up gardening techniques, practical basics, and simple skills which will have your garden blooming. Top tips to guide you every step of the way with clear, easy-to-follow advice and photographs. Find out the principles of good of gardening - how plants work and how to give them what they need.

This is your one-stop guide to creating and enjoying a garden of your own.

RHS How to Garden Reviews

This beautifully illustrated hardback is a practical guide designed to help gardening beginners create a successful and lasting planting scheme. * Amateur Gardening *
The book is concise and covers a lot of ground. Aimed at beginners, yet also comforting to the more experienced, not a word or picture is superfluous * Garden (Main) *

Table of Contents

  • 1: The Garden you Want
    • 1: Family gardens
    • 2: Small gardens
    • 3: Large gardens
    • 4: Cottage gardens
    • 5: Meadow gardens
    • 6: Woodland gardens
    • 7: Water gardens
    • 8: Wildlife gardens
    • 9: Formal gardens
    • 10: Contemporary gardens
  • 2: The Garden You've Got
    • 1: How to assess your garden
    • 2: The weather
    • 3: Sun, shade, and the seasons
    • 4: Your microclimate
    • 5: Your soil
  • 3: Flowerbeds & Borders
    • 1: Designing beds and borders
    • 2: Size, shape and layout
    • 3: Choosing your plants
    • 4: Making a planting plan
    • 5: Sunny sites
    • 6: Shady sites
    • 7: Wet, sticky soils
    • 8: Dry, free-draining soils
    • 9: Exposed sites
    • 10: Rock gardens
    • 11: Choosing and buying plants
  • 4: Perennials, Annuals & Biennials
    • 1: Growing perennials
    • 2: Growing annuals and biennials
  • 5: Bulbs
    • 1: Growing bulbs
  • 6: Shrubs
    • 1: Growing shrubs
    • 2: Pruning shrubs
  • 7: Climbers
    • 1: Growing climbers
    • 2: Pruning climbers
  • 8: Roses
    • 1: Growing roses
  • 9: Grasses, Bamboos & Ferns
    • 1: Growing grasses
    • 2: Growing bamboos
    • 3: Growing ferns
  • 10: Lawns, Meadows & Gravel Gardens
    • 1: What sort of lawn?
    • 2: Looking after your lawn
    • 3: What's wrong with my lawn?
    • 4: Making a new lawn
    • 5: Alternatives to grass
    • 6: Wildflower meadows
    • 7: Gravel gardens
  • 11: Trees
    • 1: Garden trees
    • 2: Caring for trees
  • 12: Hedges
    • 1: Garden hedges
    • 2: Caring for hedges
  • 13: Containers
    • 1: Growing plants in containers
    • 2: Care and maintenance
    • 3: Growing crops in containers
  • 14: Tools & Techniques
    • 1: The basic tool kit
    • 2: Watering
    • 3: Mulches
    • 4: Feeding your plants
    • 5: Compost
    • 6: Digging
    • 7: Weeding
    • 8: Eco-gardening
    • 9: Propagating plants
  • 15: Garden Doctor
    • 1: What's wrong?
    • 2: Garden pests and parasites
    • 3: Plant diseases
    • 4: Keeping plants healthy
  • 16: Garden Year Planner
    • 1: Early spring
    • 2: Mid- to late spring
    • 3: Early summer
    • 4: Mid- to late summer
    • 5: Autumn
    • 6: Winter
    • 7: Glossary
    • 8: Understanding plant names
  • 17: Index
  • 18: Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR004361207
9781405366403
1405366400
RHS How to Garden: A Practical Introduction to Gardening by DK
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
20110401
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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