- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (26 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751313114
- ISBN-13: 978-0751313116
- Product Dimensions: 26.8 x 23.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 455,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| ||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Whatever the season, this accessible reference book is a guide to a full 12 months of horticultural tasks. Clearly laid out and completely practical in approach, the guide is designed to ensure you make the very best use of your time. As well as specific monthly tasks for every part of the garden, there are at-a-glance checklists, expert plant advice and tips on organization including "Get Ahead" and "Is it Too Late?" With more than 1000 full-colour photographs of star plants for each month, step-by-step photographic sequences of garden projects and illustrated tasks, this is the garden reference that not only tells you what to do when, but also shows you how to do it. To help you upgrade your garden or make maintenance easier, there is a DIY project suggestion for every month, each of which has been tried and tested to guarantee success. Good gardening depends on timing - when to plant and when to prune, when to feed and when to water, when to build and when to maintain. Whatever your level of gardening expertise, let expert gardener Ian Spence be your trusted guide through 12 months of satisfying and successful gardening.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
194 of 194 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you want to maintain your garden but don't have the time to make this a full-time occupation (i.e. you are working full time!!) this is a super help - tells you what to plant, prune, lift, protect etc on a monthly basis. There is even a checklist at the beginning of each month. Just what I needed to make sure that I do the essential things at the right time, so that my garden looks good each year. Loads of lovely pictures, so this book also looks good on the coffee table...!
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How did the author manage to make a gardening book so good? No wonder its endorsed by the RHS and I don't want to repeat the already very good reviews posted here?
Nothing to be done in the garden in January? Don't belive it take a look at the month at a glance guide. The perfect book in many ways, Star Plants of the Month see what you have to look forward to with stunning pictures, in those depressing dreary days of January turn the pages and feel the motivation return. It really is a good book if you buy as a gift buy two or you will never give the present away. I'm sure you will enjoy (its a little better than Alan Titchmarch's The Gardeners Year, sorry Alan).
Nothing to be done in the garden in January? Don't belive it take a look at the month at a glance guide. The perfect book in many ways, Star Plants of the Month see what you have to look forward to with stunning pictures, in those depressing dreary days of January turn the pages and feel the motivation return. It really is a good book if you buy as a gift buy two or you will never give the present away. I'm sure you will enjoy (its a little better than Alan Titchmarch's The Gardeners Year, sorry Alan).
98 of 100 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is fantastic - month by month it tells you which tasks to carry out in your garden and how. This is absolutely priceless when you are new to gardening or when you are short of time (or both!), or it can even just act as a monthly reminder.
There is no complicated jargon but it isn't too simplistic either. The level of details is just right for an amateur gardener.
There is no complicated jargon but it isn't too simplistic either. The level of details is just right for an amateur gardener.
Each month is then broken down into various categories like Vegetable Garden, Greenhouse, etc... which makes it easier to find what you want. There are also bigger practical projects, like things to build for the garden.
The pictures of plants and flowers are beautiful which makes reading the book even more of a pleasure. And the price is right too, what mnore could one want?
Altogether a perfect book from the RHS!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
excellent garden book
interesting and easy to read.Extremely informative about what to plant where to plant and conditions required.A must for every gardener,
Published 1 month ago by pinky
Loved it!
After reading so many great reviews, decided to buy it. And I must say, I was not let down. Very detailed on what to do every month. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rachel
The Monthly Gardener!!
A lovely book with coloured illustrations from beginning to end in colour. All sorts of information in relation to gardening, including pruning, potting on, vegetables and so on. Read more
Published 3 months ago by The Reader
What every gardener needs.
This is just what I needed to tell me all about gardening, since I am a novice yet now own a house with a big garden. It was all I wanted and more. Read more
Published 4 months ago by su-zette
Gardening through the year
This book arrived in good time and was in fantastic condition. Will be very usefull to me when gradening in the future.
Published 8 months ago by namaste
Brilliant!
I am a first-time home owner and very novice gardener with no idea where to start (on either house or garden! Read more
Published 9 months ago by Miss Porter
GARDENING
SUPERB book, BEAUTIFULLY illustrated. Would make a SUPERB gift. VERY VERY helpfull and takes away the anxiety and confusion of what to do in the garden and when. Read more
Published 10 months ago by ANGELA
Gardening through the year
As a beginner to gardening I have found this book of great use. It has given lots of great advice on how to do things at particular times. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Tracey Obbard
Gardening through the year
An excellent book for getting your head around all the various tasks to be done in the garden. Clearly presented and basic enough for an inexperienced gardener but informative... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sarah J. Dalrymple
Rhs Gardening Through The Year
A lovely hardback book. The person I give this to for Christmas likes gardening and they were very impressed.
The information for each month is very good. Read more
The information for each month is very good. Read more
Published 17 months ago by okiss
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Search Customer Discussions
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192198663_.gif){kind=small}
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
