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Bee-Kind Garden - Apian Wisdom for Your Garden by David Squire
Category: Nature | Series: Wise Words Ser.
Bees are vital for the future of the planet, for without their dedicated pollinating skills many crops would eventually fail. This delightfully illustrated book is a homage to bees, revealing many facets of their lives, including homes, flight patterns and defence. It also describes how to attract bees ...Show more
Cassell's Garden Directories: Cottage Gardens by Squire David
Category: Gardening | Series: Cassell's Garden Directories
This directory of plants for cottage gardens, is a reference on aspects of planting and maintaining a garden. There is advice on habitat and soil types, and coordinationg colour and foliage. There are lots of practical tips and instructions presented in a topic based spread.
Complete Indoor Plants by David Squire
Category: Gardening
Grow a garden inside! Houseplants bring life and color to any room, and with the right care you can successfully cultivate everything from succulents and bonsai to foliage, flowers, and fruit. This indispensable manual is a complete guide to indoor gardening, with advice on choosing the right plants and ...Show more
Herb Gardens by David Squire
Category: Gardening SPECIALS
More than 330 color illustrations and diagrams, backed with easily followed text, help gardeners at all skill levels learn to buy, plant, tend, and harvest a rich bounty of herbs. Complete herb identification and growing instructions are provided for annuals, biennials, bulbs, herbaceous perennials, and ...Show more
Home Gardener's Bonsai - Buying, Planting, Displaying, Improving and Caring for Bonsai by David Squire
Category: Gardening | Series: Specialist Guide Ser.
With topics ranging from watering and feeding to spirit and aesthetics, it provides an all-in-one guide to this ancient and fascinating hobby. The book features advice on looking for and raising trees; handling pests and diseases; using composts; potting; choosing containers; pruning the plants; and dis ...Show more
Home Gardener's Container Gardens by David Squire
Category: Gardening SPECIALS
No matter how big or small a garden is, there is always room for a container. They are available in a wide range of styles and sizes and encompass everything from urns, troughs, planters and tubs, to hanging baskets, window boxes and wall pots. They can be used on terraces and patios to soften their app ...Show more
Home Gardener's First Time Gardens: Practical and Inspirational Information for First-Time Gardeners to Create Beautiful Gardens by David Squire
Category: Gardening
Anyone keen to enter the world of home gardening will find this stunningly illustrated manual a great starting point. David Squire, the popular author of several Specialist books, provide first-timers with an understanding of simple design and planning principles: how to assess a plot, develop a design, ...Show more
Home Gardener's Pests and Diseases by David Squire
Category: Gardening
All gardeners know the disappointment of finding their flowers nibbled, or their prized produce riddled with rust. Armed with this essential guide, which helps you identify, target, and banish the likely culprits, you can stop the destruction.Get acquainted with all the common pests and diseases that af ...Show more
Home Gardeners Pruning by David Squire
Category: Gardening
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. Included is detailed advice on renovating neglected plants, from shrubs and climbers to fruit trees a ...Show more
Home Gardeners Trees and Shrubs by David Squire
Category: Gardening SPECIALS
No matter what the type of garden or outdoor space, trees and shrubs are usually featured. This is because they are so versatile. Depending on the species chosen, shrubs and trees can form the background to a garden, be a focal point or add height to an overlooked garden.Whatever your garden needs, a tr ...Show more
Plant Combinations for an Abundant Garden - Design and Grow a Fabulous Flower and Vegetable Garden by Alan Bridgewater; David Squire
Category: Gardening
Packed with practical advice from leading cultivation specialists, this concise, easy-to-use book covers virtually every aspect of garden design and maintenance--from choosing a plot to selecting plants, maximizing space and building raised beds. Plant Combinations for an Abundant Garden shows how to cr ...Show more
Short Cuts to Beautiful Gardens by David Squire
Category: Fiction
Gardening is often a labor of love...but you'll love it even more with less labor! With a few fast and easy techniques, existing gardens can flourish beyond recognition. Just follow these tips on what to keep and what to scrap, shortcuts to solving common problems, and innovative planting schemes that w ...Show more