Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Miscellaneous 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

The Cookson Guide to Good Leadwork

Cookson Industrial Materials Limited

10 Minute Guide to HTML

0-7897-0541-9

Tim Evans

The hypertext markup language - HTML - is the language of the World Wide Web. This books uses a series of 10 minute lessons that walk you through the basics of HTML, then move you on to more advanced features of the language.

Practical Windmilling Today

1-871025-00-1

Les Osborne

Line drawings

Book of instructions on how to run a windmill

The Language of Flowers

0-7181-05-93-1

Margaret Pickston

none

What each flower/plant means as a language between people

The Specialist

0-285-63226-4

Charles Sale

linocuts

Immortal classic of humour where Lem Putt describes the simpler forms of American sanitary engineering

Rhododendron Yakushimanum