Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Location of Plants Books - A-G |
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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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500 Best Garden Plants |
1-85145-925-6 |
Patrick Taylor |
300 plants |
500 best bulbs, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, climbers and wall plants, and trees according to merits of foliage, habit, bark, berries, bud and scent. Lists of plants for moist shade, dry shade, light shade, sunny and dry, sunny in rich soil, very moist soil |
An Introduction to Gardening in Sinks and Containers |
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Valerie Wheeler |
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Lists of plants suitable for sinks and troughs. Thin Booklet |
Annuals and Biennials |
0-9006-2998-3 |
Ralph Gould |
Black and White annuals and biennials |
Plant lists for different locations with growing data. Thin Booklet |
Award of Garden Merit Plants |
1-874431-13-2 |
Royal Horticultural Society |
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The RHS award of garden merit recognises plants of outstanding excellence for garden decoration or use, whether grown in the open or under glass. The alphabetical lists of plants are split into 1) hardy trees and shrubs, 2) hardy herbaceous plants, 3) plants for rock garden and alpine house, 4) plants for glass, including house and conservatory plants and 5) fruit and vegetables |
Best ever garden plants choosing the best plants for your garden |
1-84309-757-5 |
Susan Berry and Steve Bradley |
300 identification colour photos |
The lists have been split into the following:- Plants for Dry Sun, Shade, Acid Soils, Alkaline Soils, Clay Soils and Moisture-loving. The plants have been chosen on the basis of godd overall performance: they are all easy to grow and have more than one good feature. They are a cross-section of trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, climbers, bulbs and roses. Be carefull with the height and spread of the trees selected for a small garden! |
Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants choosing the best hardy plants for your garden |
0-00-412329-8 |
Alan and Adrian Bloom |
Plants |
15 Plant lists for different situations. Good descriptions, some with colour photo of hardy plants - perennials, grasses and hardy ferns, alpines, conifers, heathers and shrubs with planting plans |
Brogdale Plant Portfolio |
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Brogdale |
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Brogdale now has 2300 varieties of apple, 550 pear, 350 plums, 220 cherry, 320 varieties of bush fruits, and nuts and vines. Gives list of fruit with good flavour, details of soil analysis service, fruit variety source and description, with fruit tree order form Thin Booklet |
Building Green A guide to using plants on roofs, walls and pavements |
1-871045-18-5 |
Jacklyn Johnston and John Newton |
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Guide for architects, landscape designers and developers wishing to take a more ecological approach to urban design. Includes sections on courtyards, balcony gardens, green walls, building for birds and bats, green roofs. Lists of trees for urban situations, plants for containers on balcony or terrace, walls, and extensive green roofs |
Companion Plants and How to Use Them |
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Helen Philbrick and Richard B. Gregg |
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Bio-Dynamic method of farming and gardening is based on the mutual influences of living organisms. Contains the companionate alphabet showing what can help plants. |
Dream Plants for the Natural Garden |
0-7112-1737-8 |
Henk Gerritsen & Piet Oudolf |
250 colour photos |
Personal choice of 1200 most beautiful and most dependable plants from piet oudolf and henry gerritsen. These are split into tough, playful and troublesome perennials |
English Plants for Your Garden |
0-7112-1435-2 |
Jill Duchess of Hamilton, Penny Hart and John Simmons |
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Profiles of 200 native plants in herbaceous and trees, shrubs and climber sections. Directory of all English native plants with their Latin names with common names |
Flowerbulbs in the Landscape Information for landscape designers and horticulturalists |
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International Flower Bulb Centre |
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Which bulbs are suitable for which public section is detailed. A list of bulbs with companion plants is given. A poster showing colour, height, flowering period, habitat and soil type is included. Thin Booklet |
Garden Trees step by step to growing success |
1-85223-576-4 |
David Carr |
50 broad-leaved and coniferous trees |
Tree maintenance. Good descriptions of trees and conifers suitable for a garden. Lists of trees for - containers, small gardens, quick-growing, cold sites, to avoid in town gardens, for walls, drought-tolerant, screens and windbreaks, tolerant of wet heavy soils, and for chalk soils |
Gardener's Fact Finder |
0-600-57697-3 |
Graham Clarke |
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Plant Lists for the vegetable, flower and home gardens , with pests and diseases list to aid the gardener from the Amateur Gardening magazine team |
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Site design and content copyright ©December 2006. Page structure amended October 2012. Text altered to Verdana 10 pt Blue December 2023 as is being done to the remainder of this website. Chris Garnons-Williams. DISCLAIMER: Links to external sites are provided as a courtesy to visitors. Ivydene Horticultural Services are not responsible for the content and/or quality of external web sites linked from this site. |
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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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