Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Planting Design Books - G-L |
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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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Garden Plants Valuable to Bees |
0-8609-8104-5 |
International Bee Research Association |
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Good descriptions in tables for - herbaceous, rock garden, herbs, bulbs, annual and biennial, wild garden, climbers, trees and shrubs. Good lists for hayfever sufferers.Thin Booklet |
Gardeners' World Book of Bulbs |
0-563-36099-2 |
Sue Phillips |
Bulb photos |
Table showing height, when to plant, depth to plant and flowering times. Advice on plant associations with the bulbs |
Gardening for Butterflies |
0-9512452-1-X |
Butterfly Conservation |
Butterfly diagrams and garden plans |
Lists of plants suitable for butterflies with plant plans for the garden. Thin Booklet |
Gardening with Colour |
0-7525-2462-3 |
Lance Hattatt |
600 flowers and combinations of colours of plants |
Plan colour schemes of plants in garden with colour effects and colour succession |
Gardening with Grasses |
0-7112-1202-3 |
Michael King. Piet Oudoff |
150 plants and plant combinations |
Essay on use of grasses in garden. Companion plants for grass borders with lists. Good descriptions of grasses and bamboos with lists |
Gardening with the Enemy. A Guide to Rabbit-proof Gardening |
0-9530013-0-X |
Janet Thomson |
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Rabbit-proof plants list with description. Thin book |
Gay Search's Gardening Without a Garden. A creative guide to transforming small spaces with containers |
0-7513-0354-2 |
Gay Search |
Planting plans and colour photos |
Flower combinations in containers for window-ledges, walls, stairs and entrances. |
Good Planting |
0-7112-0606-6 |
Rosemary Verey |
250 Plant associations |
Explains the principles of harmonious association of colour shape and texture, discusses the plants that make good neighbours and shows how to put good companions together to create satisfying all-year-round plant pictures. |
Ground Cover. A thousand beautiful plants for difficult places |
1-85626-326-6 |
John Cushnie |
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1000 plant descriptions some with photographs. Plant lists for 14 places |
Ground Cover. How to use flowering and foliage plants to cover areas of soil |
1-901094-41-3 |
Mineke Kurpershoek |
100 ground cover plants |
Plant combinations for normal garden soil, sandy soil, clay soil, woodland, heaths, and wet soil, with shrubs for slopes and large beds. A-z descriptions of ground cover plants |
Hardy Geraniums for the Garden |
0-901687-06-5 |
The Hardy Plant Society |
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Descriptions of plant in cultivation. Companion plants for geraniums. Hardy geraniums for foliage effect. Thin book |
Hardy Perennials |
0-7513-0691-6 |
Ray Edwards |
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Planting plans with good descriptions of recommended perennials. Thin book |
Heathers |
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David and Betty Lambie |
Heathers and planting plans |
A guide to designing a heather garden with good description of cultivars. Thin Book |
Heathers, Conifers and the Winter Garden |
0-304-32073-0 |
Frank Knight, John Bond, Lyn Randall, and Robert Pearson |
Line drawings and 130 plates |
The Heathers, dwarf and slow-growing conifers with the winter garden plants are given good descriptions. Practical essays by RHS staff on which plants to use |
Hedges & Screens |
0-7063-6756-1 |
Roger Sweetinburgh |
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Design, construction, erection/planting of screens, walls, fences, hedges and windbreaks with plant lists |
Landscaping Flower Bulbs for Long-Term Planting |
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International Bloembellen Centrum |
Bulbs |
Essay of where and what bulbs to plant for long-term effect with list of bulbs for naturalizing. Thin Booklet |
Landscaping for Small Spaces Making the most of a limited space |
0-376-03706-7 |
Sunset Magazine |
Gardens and plans |
80 good descriptions of trees, vines, shrubs, perennials and ground covers suitable for small spaces with minimal litter, well-behaved roots and appropriate growth, some with colour illustrations. Essay on choice of plants with these characteristics - plant form, texture, colour and year-round appeal. Good essay on design |
Landscaping with Perennials |
0-88192-063-0 |
Emily Brown |
600 Diagrams |
Good descriptions of perennials. Comprehensive essays on which perennials to use in which garden site. Planting plans for different locations. Lists for different purposes |
US Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring their least evolved citizens ….
A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter.
The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?] |
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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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