Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Species Books - F-M |
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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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Ferns for home and garden |
1-85422-888-9 |
Theo Schildkamp |
100 ferns |
Good descriptions with photographs |
Ferns, Mosses & Lichens of Britain |
0-00-219254-3 |
Hans Martin Jahns |
Ferns, mosses and lichens |
Good plant descriptions with colour photographs |
Field guide to the trees of Britain and Europe |
1-85368-104-0 |
Bob Press |
450 trees and diagrams |
Good descriptions with colour photo. Key to trees section to identify trees by their leaves, fruit and bark |
Foliage colour |
0-7548-0666-9 |
Bryan Greenwood |
50 coloured foliage plants |
Plant catalogue of blue, yellow and gold, orange and brown, red, purple and black, with greys and silver foliage plants with height, spread, flower colour and months description |
Fuchsias a colour guide |
1-85223-927-1 |
George Bartlett |
700 fuchsias |
2000 good descriptions of fuchsias, 700 with colour photographs |
Fuchsias for greenhouse and garden |
1-85152-543-2 |
David Clark |
Fuchsia colour photos |
A complete guide to growing fuchsias with fuchsia cultivar detailed list. |
Fuchsias. Practical advice on how to grow and care for your fuchsias |
0-947793-85-2 |
Leo B. Boullemier |
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Descriptions with some photographs. Maintenance and cultivation |
Fungi of Britain and northern Europe |
1-85152-810-5 |
Paul Sterry |
250 fungi |
Good descriptions of fungi with colour photo |
Gardener's World Pocket Plants Water Garden Plants |
0-563-38418-2 |
Andi Clevely |
75 water plants |
Good descriptions with photographs. Thin book |
Gardeners' encyclopedia of plants and flowers |
0-86318-386-7 |
Christopher Brickell |
4000 Plants |
6 pages of plant lists. Photographic and good descriptive guides to over 4000 garden plants, arranged by plant type, size, season of interest and colour. |
Gardening with camellias A complete picture |
0-7134-7886-1 |
Jim Rolfe |
175 camellias |
Annotated list of 400 camellias with cultivar data. Landscaping with camellias includes lists for shrubbery, specimen trees, standards, hedging and ground cover. Companion plants. |
Grow your own fruit |
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Ken Muir |
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Description of fruit with photographs. |
Guide to Woodland Plants |
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Richard and Mavis Gulliver |
41 plant pictures |
Common woodland plant key to identify plant names with short description and picture. Thin booklet |
Handy guide to heathers |
0-9519160-0-9 |
David & Anne Small |
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1000 good descriptions split into genera andromeda, bruckenthalia, calluna, daboecia and erica Thin booklet |
Hardy geraniums |
0-304-32061-7 |
David Hibberd |
Hardy geraniums |
Cultivar data of hardy geraniums, some with colour photo. 22 leaves in a colour plate, 35 flowers in another. Lists of geraniums by colour. |
Hebes here and there |
0-9530940-0-6 |
Graham Hutchins |
300 hebe illustrations |
Good descriptions with illustration |
Hosta the flowering foliage plant |
0-7134-5072-X |
Diana Grenfell |
49 hostas |
Good descriptions of hostas. Hosta uses lists. |
How to identify flowering plant families |
0-917304-21-7 |
John Philip Baumgardt |
Diagrams of flower families |
Analyses of flower structure, floral diagrams, and floral formulae to enable identification of plant in its correct familial relationship |
Hydrangeas a gardener's guide |
0-7134-7274-X |
Toni Lawson-Hall and Brian Rothera |
Hydrangeas |
Good descriptions of hydrangeas with colour photograph |
Iris |
0-7470-1803-0 |
Fritz Kohlein |
210 irises |
General information and good descriptions of irises. Flowerings sequence list of irises, whose flowers start end of February to middle of July. Iris for confined plantings, planting in the open, water gardens and artificial bogs, dwarf iris and collector's varieties |
Irises for the water garden |
0-901483-34-6 |
Angela Marchant |
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Details which irises can be planted in water, in bog areas or close to streams. Thin Booklet |
Lavender, sweet lavender |
0-86417-601-5 |
Judith A. Mcleod |
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Lavender in the garden essay. Lavender descriptions with illustrations |
Lilies |
1-57335-490-2 |
Richard Bird |
150 lilies |
Good descriptions with colour photographs of lilies and lily hybrids |
Making the most of clematis |
0-903001-36-5 |
Richard J. Evison |
Clematis |
Glossary gives name, principal colour, size and shape of flower, height, facing position, flowering months, pruning, outstanding features and most suitable position or host of 100 clematis. Essays on which clematis may be used where. |
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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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