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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Type Books - A-H				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
A handbook of annuals and bedding plants	0-7099-2277-9	Graham Rice	20 annuals	Good descriptions of annuals and bedding plants
All about ground covers	0-89721-010-7	Ortho Books	Ground cover plants	Selected plant lists. 200 ground cover good descriptions with colour photograph. Thin Book
Annuals and biennials	0-7513-0448-4	Linden Hawthorne	500 annuals and biennials	500 good descriptions of biennials and annuals with colour photos split into large, medium or small heights
Ask me about summer bulbs		International Bloembellen Centrum	24 bulbs	General data about cultivation and which bulbs to use as summer flowers. Thin Booklet
Ask me about spring bulbs		International Bloembellen Centrum	24 bulbs	General data about cultivation and which bulbs to use as spring flowers. Thin Booklet
Best foliage shrubs	0-600-57735-X	Stefan Buczacki	150 Shrubs	Selected foliage shrubs for high performance, easy growing and year-round colour
Cherries production and culture	1-874275-33-5	Martin Crawford		Agroforestry research trust booklet detailing sour, duke and sweet cherry varieties with their pests and diseases
Complete guide to garden plants Identifying and growing over 1000 garden plants	0-86272-732-4	Brian Davis	307 flowers	Plant chart shows all cultivation requirements of all 307 perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses whose good descriptions and colour photo appear in this book
Conifers	0-7117-0152-0	Adrian Bloom	Conifers and garden plan	Dwarf and slow growing conifer good descriptions, some with colour photo. lists of slow growing and dwarf conifers for different uses. 32 page Thin Booklet
Creating a wild flower garden		Jonathan Andrews	Plant illustrations	Good essay descriptions of wild flowers according to their flowering season, with propagation details. 6 garden plans. Table of wildflowers to attract named variety butterflies and/or/ caterpillars
Cultivated plants of the world Trees. Shrubs. Climbers	1-876060-00-X	Don Ellison	2000 plants	Pictorial dictionary of trees, shrubs and climbers
Dwarf and slow-growing conifers	0-304-31128-6	John Bond and Lynn Randall	Conifers	Good descriptions of dwarf and slow-growing conifers, some with colour photo. Thin Booklet
Essential annuals the 100 best for design and cultivation	0-517-66177-2	Elizabeth Murray	100 annuals	Lists of annuals for different purposes. 100 good descriptions with colour photo. 5 annual garden plans. Good annuals book
Fragrant gardens	0-7063-6549-6	Jane Taylor	Fragrant flowers	Fragrant plant lists with essay on fragrant plants for spring, midsummer, high summer and autumn/winter
Fruit	1-85732-905-8	Harry Baker	Diagrams	RHS good descriptions about soft fruit, tree fruits and warm temperature fruits with cultivar details. Cultivation details
Garden Guides Fuchsias & Bedding Plants	0-7525-1584-5	David Myers	230 colour photos of plants	How to select and use some fuchsias. Enables you to design spring and summer bedding and to use the same plants as fillers in beds and borders. Small thin book
Gardeners' world plants for small gardens	0-563-36301-0	Sue Fisher	50 Gardens	Essay of plants for different plant types. Plant lists - to attract wildlife, winter colour, drought-tolerant for a sunny site, and for a compact cottage garden
Growing fragrant plants	0-06-016073-X	Rayford Clayton Reddell and Robert Galyean	Plants	Essay versions of good descriptions of all fragrant garden plants
Guide to garden plants	1-85813-205-3	Brian Davis	300 flowers	1000 good descriptions of perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses arranged in seasonal flower order.
Hardy foliage plants	0-600-36809-2	Richard Gorer		Good descriptions of evergreen trees and shrubs, deciduous trees and shrubs, herbaceous, alpine, grasses and ferns hardy foliage plants with tree and shrub list. A foliage plant is an object of beauty even if it is not in flower.
Hedges and Screens		J. Coutts		Good description of utility, evergreen and deciduous hedges and screens
Hedges how to select, plant and grow a living fence	0-7090-5566-8	Jeffrey Whitehead	24 hedges	Lists of hedge plants with practical descriptions
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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Type Books - A-H

All about ground covers

0-89721-010-7

Ortho Books

Ground cover plants

Selected plant lists. 200 ground cover good descriptions with colour photograph.

Gardeners' world plants for small gardens

0-563-36301-0

Sue Fisher

50 Gardens

Essay of plants for different plant types. Plant lists - to attract wildlife, winter colour, drought-tolerant for a sunny site, and for a compact cottage garden