Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Type Books - A-H |
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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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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 |
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International Bloembellen Centrum |
24 bulbs |
General data about cultivation and which bulbs to use as summer flowers. Thin Booklet |
Ask me about spring bulbs |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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J. Coutts |
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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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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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