The essentials of planning a small garden and how to put your ideas into action, with examples of garden styles, practical features, and what to grow where.

Expert advice on choosing the best plant for the different rooms in your home, with a guide to 350 species, and practical care and maintenance.

Lilies, dahlias, gladioli and other summer bulbs - everything you need to know at a glance about in one handy and beautifully illustrated practical guide.

Everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and beautifully illustrated practical guide.

Improve your gardening know-how with the easy-to-follow manual of techniques, covering all the basics such as digging, soil, compost, planting, sowing, watering, weeding, pruning, propagation and harvesting.

An easy-to-follow manual for successful pruning without stress, from basic principles to more advanced techniques. Here is pruning guidance for every type of plant, from roses and climbers to hedges, fruit trees, cordons and esapaliers, shrubs and fruit bushes. Step-by-step photographic techniques and artworks make it simple.

With its myriad hues, scents and shapes, the rose is the best-loved plant in the garden; this accessible guide presents the most popular varieties of rose available, and how to cultivate them successfully, with practical instruction and photographs.

A visual A to Z directory of the most popular varieties of indoor plant, including evergreens, ferns, palms, cacti, succulents, flowering plants and those with variegated foliage. With 350 photographs and clear advice on position, feeding, watering, pest control and propagation, this handy guide enables you to identify and grow them with confidence.

How to successfully plan a garden, from a large family space to patios, balconies and even roof gardens. Offers over 15 plans for well-planned gardens, with stunning photographs showing them in all their glory.

Creating a garden for your space size, shape and budget, with 1250 plans and photographs.

 

A practical guide to planning your garden with inspirational ideas and how-to techniques, including 50 plans suitable for every space, size and type - L-shaped, small, sloping, patio or terrace - all shown in 500 photographs.

 

Featuring more than 2000 photographs, clear advice and step-by-step projects, this comprehensive and practical guide is for anyone wishing to transform even the smallest corner with flair and confidence.

Creative combinations and effective methods for planting in small spaces

Themed ideas for beautiful containers, from a tumbling viola basket to a cottage garden in a terracotta window box, including displays based on color, scent or the seasons

Essentials tips on choosing the right plants for every type of container

An illustrated A-Z of houseplants provides at-a-glance information for over 180 varieties

How to keep your plants in top condition, from simple care and maintenance to identifying and treating pests

Gardening is a therapeutic and rewarding pastime, but not everyone has the luxury of a large garden to cultivate, nor the time and energy to spend on it. Planting in containers is the perfect way to make the most of small spaces, indoors or out. Keeping plants in containers is easy to do, and with a little thought you can completely transform a small patio area, a window, or a corner of your home.

Indoors: Even without outdoor space, you can still enjoy gardening with graceful and exotic houseplants. An illustrated A-Z directory tells you everything you need to know about over 180 plants. There is also advice for using houseplants creatively in the home, from simple yet effective groupings of particular plants to bottle gardens.

Outdoors: All the information you need to successfully create and maintain 160 glorious planters, boxes and tubs, including types of container, soils, planting up, and general upkeep and maintenance. There are container planting schemes for every aspect and style of garden. Beautiful color-based projects allow you to combine plants of complementary hues or a single shade, and there are many themed designs.

With over 2200 photographs this book contains everything you need to know about gardening in pots in one comprehensive volume.

The definitive practical reference book on planning, planting and maintaining your garden, whatever its size and location.

Nel libro si trovano soluzioni innovative per ottimizzare lo spazio e renderlo vivibile, piacevole e colorato in ogni stagione dell'anno. Nel testo vengono forniti indicazioni per migliorare diversi angoli del giardino e creare l'illusione di un ambiente pił grande.