Product Description: Join a landscape architect on a trip through time to study the complex, exciting story of English gardening. Explore how garden styles, from medieval times on, have reflected political, economic, social, and cultural life and values...read more

Product Description: With 200 colour photos, illustrations and plans this book celebrates the beauty and influence of the peony and its place in art and history as well as providing comprehensive information for gardeners wishing to choose and grow the right variety for their garden detailing their fragrance, colour, flowering periods and hardiness...read more

Product Description: Take the confusion out of choosing plants that will thrive in your garden. From the many varieties available today, find out which plants are right for your garden's conditions and how to keel) them healthy and beautiful. The 500 plants listed include old favorites as well as more unusual plants: chive, hollyhock, crown imperial, snowdrop, geranium, water lily, and tomato...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provide step-by-step instruction in such basic skills as pruning, weeding, fighting pests and diseases, and propagination; and discusses how to select plants and take into account its soil, climate, and position.

Discusses the history and mythology of ivy, presents practical information for planting, maintaining, and treating ivy, and lists three hundred of the most common varieties