Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Cultivation Books |
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Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-
Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section. |
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Alan Titchmarsh's How to be a Gardener Back to Basics |
0-563-53740-X |
Alan Titchmarsh |
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Gardening basics with how plants grow, planning and making borders, from season to season, weeding, garden maintenance, and lawns |
Containers |
1-84309-321-9 |
Stephanie Donaldson |
800 containers |
A comprehensive guide to container gardening with practical ideas for creating 150 beautiful containers of all kinds and planting instructions |
Gardening with green manures |
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HDRA |
Green manure plant diagrams |
Good descriptions of plants for green manuring with their cultivation and use. Thin Booklet |
Growing Better Plants |
0-85202-682-X |
Gardening Which? |
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The Gardening Which? guide to choosing composts and feeds to get the most from container plants. Thin Booklet |
Growing From Seed |
0-9512199-0-1 |
Mr. Fothergill’s Seeds Ltd |
50 colour pictures |
Step-by-step guide describing basic details of how seeds grow, then individual methods and varieties and gives tips on how to raise and use some of the more popular flowers and vegetables |
Growing Under Glass |
1-85732-908-2 |
Kenneth A. Beckett |
Line drawings |
Book from RHS encyclopedia of practical gardening. How to select and run a greenhouse, how to propagate and use different types of greenhouse |
Home-Grown Food |
0-00-635050-X |
David Wickers |
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How to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in the home |
How to Grow Pinks |
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The British National Carnation Society |
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How to grow the modern pink, laced pinks and miniature pinks. Thin Booklet |
Middletons All The Year Round Gardening Guide |
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Middleton |
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How to produce vegetables and fruit during each week of the year in World War II |
Organic Grounds Maintenance Manual |
0-905343-24-7 |
HDRA |
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This aims to encourage the use of organic methods in schools grounds. It is aimed at schools of all types. It has been produced by HDRA as part of a DETR-sponsored project: Go organic in school grounds. |
Successful Fruit Tree Growing |
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Frank P. Matthews |
Recommended fruit |
22 pages of details for successful growing of apples, pears, plums, gages, damsons and cherries.Thin Booklet |
Successful Organic Gardening the Complete Guide to Growing Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables Naturally |
0-86318-200-3 |
Geoff Hamilton |
Line drawings and plants |
The complete guide to growing flowers, fruit and vegetables organically |
Success with Container Gardening for Large Plants |
1-85391-395-2 |
H. and D. Mittman |
60 colour photos, diagrams and usefull tables |
The Mittmans are the proprietors of a nursery in Salzbergen, Germany that specializes in large container plants. Clear concise information about purchasing and positioning, watering and fertilizing together with overwintereing and repotting is given in this thin book for over 120 deciduous and evergreen plants. |
Summer Containers 14 Gorgeous Displays to Create |
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Garden Answers |
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14 imaginative ideas for hanging baskets, patio containers and wall pots. Each planting idea has been picked for good looks, staying power and value for money. Thin Booklet |
The Arboriculturalist's Companion |
0-631-16774-9 |
N.D.G. James |
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Growing and maintenance of trees with spacing, transplanting, pruning, identity and treatment of tree diseases and insect pests |
The Fruit Garden Displayed |
0-304-34016-2 |
Harry Baker |
Fruit |
The complete guide to successful tree and soft fruit growing. 4 fruit garden plans. Calendar of work to be done each month. |
The National Chrysanthemum Society Chrysanthemum Guide |
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K.M. Dear |
Chrysanthemums |
Chrysanthemums flower from August to December. A comprehensive practical guide to the cultivation of the chrysanthemum. Thin Booklet |
The Plant Care Manual |
1-85029-402-X |
Stefan Buczacki |
Plants |
Advice on soil, site, watering, feeding, pruning, pests and diseases, propagation and troubleshooting of 300 garden plants |
The Reader's Digest The Gardening Year |
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Roy Hay |
12 months of Flowers, Pests and Diseases |
Monthly work plan for complete garden with plant descriptions |
The Vegetable Garden Displayed |
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Joy Larkcom |
Vegetables, pests and diseases |
The complete guide to successful vegetable growing of 60 vegetables outdoors |
Vegetable Plotter |
0-903-50506-1 |
Dr. D.G. Hessayon |
Diagrams |
What to do and how to do it for 27 vegetables. Thin Booklet |
Year-Round Containers, Baskets & Boxes |
1-85391-668-4 |
Graham Strong and Charlie Phoenix |
300 colour photos of plants in containers |
Step-by-step guide to grow over 60 of their favourite planting schemes into pots, tubs, hanging baskets and windowboxes out in the garden. |
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Library Pages
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The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like. Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-
Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).
Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden. Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc. Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.
Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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