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Trees and Shrubs

Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest by Beth Chatto   As one reviewer observes: just what the title says. More information and prices from: Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start by C. Colston Burrell Combinations are the building blocks of the garden, and they are arranged around garden spaces. It is important to have spaces for outdoor activities, such as patios and small lawns. What makes the garden nurturing is to wrap these areas in a blanket of trees, shrubs and perennials.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros The Backyard Orchardist: Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden by Stella Otto The wonderful thing about fruit trees is that they can be enjoyed by virtually anyone willing to invest a little bit of energy and patience into growing them and they can be enjoyed in so many different ways. Whether you are a novice gardener who would like to start with something unique or a seasoned veteran looking for a new adventure, fruit trees are rewarding, interesting, and relatively simple to understand once you know some basics. The Backyard Orchardist explores the basic concepts of fruit growing and guides you through the skills needed to successfully raise your own fruit trees. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros Winter-flowering Shrubs By Michael W. Buffin Winter is the season of intrigue and surprise in the garden, when sight of a single, small bloom often gives more pleasure than a summer garden full of flowers. As the growing season tails off, there is more time to enjoy the spectacle of a single flowering shrub and contemplate the complementary charms of bark, stem, berry, and sculptural form. In temperate zones it is possible to have a shrub in flower for every day between November and March, and with careful selection the display continues throughout the rest of the year. The cornerstone of this book is a hand-picked plant directory featuring both established favourites and lesser-known collectables, all chosen for their winter-flowering performance. Here you will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation. After years of observing how plants react to different types of wintry conditions, Michael Buffin explains what happens physiologically to plants in winter, how they respond to different types of cold — low temperatures, bitter winds, saturated ground — and what gardeners can do to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish. Tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of plants that offer different characteristics, complete this practical and inspiring guide. In Winter-flowering Shrubs we join Buffin as he relates his hands-on experience of growing and observing plants in some of the world's great winter gardens. Whether looking to extend a plant collection or create a winter garden from scratch, collectors and gardeners alike will delight in the tantalizing winter landscape evoked here. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros

Growing Fruit (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening S.) by Harry Baker This manual supplies information on growing conventional and more exotic fruits, from soft, tree and warm temperate fruits to nuts and currants.   More information and prices from: Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees John White The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees, Second Edition, is the result of more than 10 years of on-site, meticulous painting of individual living trees and their detailed parts. David More, a supremely gifted botanical artist, has contributed even more illustrations than the total contained in the first edition. The main section is devoted to 377 double-page spreads, which describe and illustrate more than 1800 species and cultivars of trees. The trees illustrated were selected because they are commonly cultivated in England and continental Europe, but most are also found in American gardens. Some are indeed native to North America. A small percentage of the trees documented will not be hardy enough for the most severe climates; hardiness information is provided. Each deciduous tree is illustrated with a summer painting in full leaf and a winter silhouette. All trees, both deciduous and evergreen, are illustrated with close-up artwork detailing leaves or needles, bark, blossoms, fruit, nuts, or cones. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Pruning Specialist: The Essential Guide to Caring for Shrubs, Trees, Climbers, Hedges, Conifers, Roses and Fruit Trees (The Specialist Series) In order to be a successful gardener you have to know how to prune - whether to improve growth, increase fruiting qualities or to enable the plant to grow in space-restricted areas or cold environments. This practical book provides advice on pruning garden plants, from infancy to maturity. Included is detailed advice on renovating neglected plants, from shrubs and climbers to fruit trees and bushes. There is also a fun element, with instructions for creating topiary in the garden. Alan Bridgewater (Editor), Gill Bridgewater (Editor) More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Year in Trees: Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens By Kim E. Tripp and J. C. Raulston This is an enthusiastic survey of 150 trees that grew out of a North Carolina State University Arboretum program designed to encourage use of less familiar trees. The result is a collection of woody plants ranging from those commonly available, but often overlooked, to to rarities, to recently introduced varieties. Each portrait extols the virtues of a plant, gives cultural and propagation information, and offers advice on creative ways to use the plant in the garden. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros

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