Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Tips Books

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:-

• Garden Style - The overall style of the garden — Cottage, Japanese, Feng-Shui, Informal, Formal, Wildlife Friendly etc - dictates which following design and plant books are suitable to use
• Garden Design - gives design methodologies to follow for the Garden Style chosen.
• Garden Planting Design gives planting design ideas for the beds of the overall garden design chosen above.
• Wildlife gives details concerning wildlife that could be found in gardens, their lifestyle and how to encourage them to your garden.
• Location of Plants shows which plants should be grouped together for its soil, shade, colour for the garden style chosen.
• Plant Association shows which plant combinations give a pleasing colour combination or foliage contrast.
• Plant Types gives growing conditions of a particular family of plants, i.e. Primulas, with lists of where suitable and finally
• Plant Species gives data about a particular family of plants in restricted format.

The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction.

Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-

• Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden,
• Garden Cultivation gives specific data about growing vegetables in a kitchen garden, or fruit in an orchard, or lawns, ponds etc,
• Propagation gives details on how to propagate new plants from seed, division or grafting,
• Garden Pests includes information on garden pests and diseases with their control and
• Garden Tips gives tips on different parts of gardening.

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.

Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

101 Tips for Successful Gardening

Gardening Which?

101 gardening tips. Thin Booklet

501 Gardening Tips

0-7499-1104-2

Pamela Donald

Gardening Hints and tips to save time and money

A Miscellany of Garden Wisdom

0-00-412622-X

Bernard Schofield

Line drawings

Gardening Tips

Devon Garden Plants History and Conservation

0-86114-845-2

NCCPG Devon Group

Plants

Record of plant introductions from the wild made by collectors and first grown in Devon, together with seedlings, hybrids and cultivars introduced into the county by garden owners.

Gardening and the Law

0-85202-608-3

Gardening Which?

Short guide to your legal rights in and around the garden. Thin Book

Gardening Tips from the National Trust

0-7078-0215-6

National Trust Gardeners

Gardening tips

How Green is Your Garden?

0-7225-2144-8

Nick Branwell

A guide to choosing environmentally safe garden products

Superhints for Gardeners

0-7181-3660-8

The Lady Wardington

500 gardening hints

Rosa Korona