Plant Species (T-W)

Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Species Books - T-W				Library Pages Library Introduction Site Map Garden Style Garden Design:- A-G G-H J-T T-W Garden Planting Design:- A-G G-L L-S S-T T-Y Location of Plants:- A-G G-T T-W Plant Association:- A-R T-W Plant Types:- A-H H-S T-T Plant Species:- A-E F-M M-T T-W* Gardening:- A-S S-Y Garden Cultivation Propagation Garden Pests Garden Tips Practical Projects:- A-H H-S S-T T-Y Wildlife Reference Library Miscellaneous Health
Site Map Links Case Studies Companion Planting Garden Construction Garden Design Garden Maintenance Glossary Home Library* Offbeat Glossary Plants Soil Tool Shed Useful Data Topic - Plant Photo Galleries Aquatic Bamboo Bedding Bulb Climber Colour Wheel Conifer Deciduous Shrub Deciduous Tree Evergreen Perennial Evergreen Shrub Evergreen Tree Fern Grass Hedging Herbaceous Perennial Herb Odds and Sods Rhododendron Rose Soft Fruit Top Fruit Vegetable Wild Flower Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery Butterfly	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 complete book of roses	0-7063-7163-1	John Mattock Sean McCann Fred Witchell Peter Wood	Roses	Good descriptions of - 1) species, old garden roses and modern shrub roses, 2) bush roses and standards, 3) climbers and ramblers, and 4) miniatures, patio and ground cover roses. Complete cultivation details
The concise British flora in colour		W. Keble Martin	1486 species illustrated	All British flowers are illustrated with height and flowering period
The encyclopedia of rhododendron species	0-9530533-0-X	Peter Cox and Kenneth Cox	1500 rhododendron species	Good Description of most rhododendron species with photos
The family circle Book of house plants		Rob Herwig	100 houseplants	100 good descriptions of houseplants with colour photo. Thin Book
The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hardy Geraniums	0-7153-0041-8	Trevor Bath and Joy Jones	Geraniums	Good description of hardy geraniums
The hardy fuchsia guide	0-9510578-7-1	David Clark	Fuchsias	Good descriptions of hardy fuchsias with hardiness and overall ratings, some with colour photographs. Thin Book
The Observer's Book of British Grasses, Sedges & Rushes		W.J. Stokoe	Grass, Sedge and Rush	Good descriptions of grasses, sedges and rushes
The Observer's Book of Ferns		W.J. Stokoe	ferns	Good descriptions of ferns
The Observer's Book of Trees & Shrubs of the British isles		W.J. Stokoe	Black and White photographs of trees	Good descriptions of trees
The Peony	0-7134-7477-7	Alice Harding	26 peony	Good description of best bush and tree varieties with cultivation details
The rose expert	0-903505-25-8	Dr. D.G. Hessayon	Diagrams	Good descriptions of roses in alphabetical order. How to maintain them and short essays of where to use them
The story of the potato	0-9520973-1-1	Alan Wilson	74 Potatoes	Reviews and analysis of all major potatoes of the last 250 years
The tulip	0-7475-4296-1	Anna Pavord	Tulips	History of tulips with good descriptions of tulip species and cultivars.
The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe	0-00-219715-4	Richard Fitter, Alistair Fitter and Marjorie Blamey	Wild Flowers	Wild Flower cultivar data
The wild flowers of the British Isles	1-900732-03-3	David Streeter	102 detailed watercolour paintings	Published 1998. This is the most complete reference work on all 1,400 native wild plants of the British Isles
The year-round bulb garden	0-285-62787-2	Brian Mathew	144 bulbs	Good descriptions of bulbs, some with colour photo are arranged in alphabetical order for each of the 4 seasons with some companion plant information
Trees and shrubs of great Britain and northern Europe	3-576-80004-2	Mosaik	1600 trees and shrubs	A photographic key to the trees and shrubs for identifying them by there leaves and needles. Good descriptions with photo
Trees for landscape and amenity uses		Plant Publicity Holland	Trees	Trees for major landscape uses. Thin booklet
Trees for your garden	0-903001-05-5	Roy Lancaster	Trees	Good descriptions of non-coniferous trees, some with colour photos. Lists of trees for different sites. Flowering tree calendar over the whole year
Tulips	1-85076-275-9	Stanley Killingback	100 tulips	Name, height, year introduced, awards and colour photo of different types of tulip, with essay on other tulips.
Unusual plants		Beth Chatto		Plant lists. Catalogue with plant descriptions. Thin Book
Water plants	1-85967-390-2	Andrew Mikolajski	38 water plants	Plant descriptions and photographs
Wild flowers of Britain	0-330-25183-X	Roger Philips	1000 wild flowers	Object of book to create a system of visual identification using 4 ways:- plants in chronological flowering order, the photographs, large format for book, and described habitat and distribution of each plant
Wild flowers of the British isles and northern Europe	1-85028-084-3	Pamela Forey	850 wild flower illustrations	The book is split into each wild flower family. A key provides you with a series of alternatives, the object being to lead you to one of the flower families in the book. A glossary in the book defines unfamiliar terms.
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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Species Books - T-W

The complete book of roses

0-7063-7163-1

John Mattock Sean McCann Fred Witchell Peter Wood

Roses

Good descriptions of - 1) species, old garden roses and modern shrub roses, 2) bush roses and standards, 3) climbers and ramblers, and 4) miniatures, patio and ground cover roses. Complete cultivation details

The year-round bulb garden

0-285-62787-2

Brian Mathew

144 bulbs

Good descriptions of bulbs, some with colour photo are arranged in alphabetical order for each of the 4 seasons with some companion plant information