Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Plant Type Books - H-S |
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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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Hillier's manual of trees & shrubs |
0-7153-1073-9 |
Hillier and Son |
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8000 tree and shrub cultivar data with colour size and habit |
Illustrated guide to gardening |
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Reader's Digest |
Plant diagrams |
Good descriptive lists of plants for all the garden for outdoor gardening, gardening under cover, gardening for food and the gardener's enemies |
Manual of alpine plants |
0-304-34063-4 |
Will Ingwersen |
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Description of most alpine plants without height or width data |
Notcutts |
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Charles Notcutt |
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Cultivar data of plants sold by notcutts garden centres |
Perennial garden plants |
0-460-86048-8 |
Graham Stuart Thomas |
Illustrations |
Grasses, sedges and rushes, ferns, and other perennials in alphabetical good description order. Lists of perennials for different uses with plant combinations |
Perennials volume 1 early perennials |
0-330-30926-9 |
Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix |
1250 perennials |
Spring and early summer perennials good descriptions, some with colour photograph |
Perennials volume 2 late perennials |
0-330-29275-7 |
Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix |
1250 perennials |
Midsummer and autumn perennials good descriptions, some with colour photographs |
Plants for dry gardens |
0-7112-0772-0 |
Jane Taylor |
Plants |
1000 good descriptions of drought-tolerant plants. Lists of plants for ground cover, wind-tolerant, bold or lush foliage, sword-shaped leaves, and fragrant and aromatic |
Pocket Guide Garden Plants |
0-7523-0020-2 |
Brian Davis |
229 perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs and corms, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses |
Good descriptions with colour picture of perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs and corms, alpines, ferns and ornamental grasses in flower season order |
Reader's Digest Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and Flowers |
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Reader's Digest |
2500 plants |
3000 good descriptions of plants |
Scented Plants |
0-00-412395-6 |
Ann Bonar |
60 scented plants |
60 good descriptions, some with colour photos. Thin Booklet |
Shrubs |
0-947793-60-7 |
Karlheinz Jacobi |
Shrubs |
Step-by-step garden guide to growing and maintaining shrubs which are decorative, climbing, hedges and for all purposes |
The Bedding Plant Expert |
0-903505-34-7 |
Dr. D.G. Hessayon |
Diagrams |
Good descriptions of bedding plants in alphabetical order. How to maintain them and short essays of where to use them |
The Bedding Plant Guide |
0-903001-63-2 |
British Bedding Plant Association |
Bedding plant flowers |
Good descriptions with colour photo. Plant lists for a purpose or colour. Thin Book |
The Evergreen Expert |
0-903505-51-7 |
Dr. D.G. Hessayon |
Diagrams |
Good descriptions of evergreens in alphabetical order. How to maintain them and short essays of where to use them |
The Flowering Shrub Expert |
0-903505-39-8 |
Dr. D.G. Hessayon |
Diagrams |
Good descriptions of flowering shrubs in alphabetical order. How to maintain them and lists of where to use them |
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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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