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Whether it's a small citrus plant or a large vine, conservatory plants are more popular than ever. Collins Practical Gardener Conservatory & Greenhouse Gardening is bursting with practical advice and step-by-step instructions covering everything from choosing and planning a structure to filling it full of plants and keeping them thriving.
Whether it's a small citrus plant or a large vine, conservatory plants are more popular than ever. 'Conservatory and Greenhouse Gardening' has practical advice and step-by-step instructions covering everything from choosing and planning a structure to filling it full of plants and keeping them thriving.
In this stunning book can be found well over 1,100 plants that will brighten the window sills, porches, greenhouses and conservatories of plant lovers, many of which can be moved on to the terrace or into the garden in the warmer months. Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, using their world famous skills and authority, have combed the world to bring together the most attractive and suitable species for our delight. In this volume you will find camelias, magnolias, poppies, hibiscus, roses and perlargoniums to name but a few. The text and illustrations are arranged in botanical order and give information on size, colour, soil conditions and flowering times to enable you to select the plants that will make your conservatory or inside area as beautiful as possible all year round.
This illustrated catalogue contains 1500 of the best greenhouse plants,elected by the author from first-hand experience. She groups her plantelection according to their most useful function - as specimen plants formpact, climbers for background and shade, trailing plants, foliage plants,lowering and fruiting plants for attractive seasonal effects, and aquaticlants.;The book gives advice and information on providing the bestonditions for growing plants in a conservatory, including ways of regulatingight, temperature and humidity. There are also ideas for interiorandscaping. Cultivation of plants is described in "Plant Care" which tellsll that is needed to know to achieve success in growing exotic plants in aonservatory.;The author is a regular presenter of BBC TV's "Gardener's World"nd a panellist on BBC Radio's "Gardener's Question Time" and has been inharge of the glasshouses at the Royal Horticultural Society garden at Wisley.ther books she has written include "A Handbook of Greehouse andonservatory Plants", "The Gardeners' World Book of House Plants" and "The
The popular author and broadcaster Anne Swithinkbank has written the definitive guide to conservatory plants and how to grow them based on her own extensive experience of growing plants under glass.
Peter Henderson's 1898 work focuses on useful information and helpful hints for those who garden for pleasure rather than profit.
The greenhouse is one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. It is a place to propagate seedlings, nurture young plants, experiment with exotic planting and hide from the rain. This book provides the information and advice you may need to set up a greenhouse and get your planting going.
Born out of the heritage of structures first imagined by and constructed for the British aristocracy, the contemporary conservatory represents the ultimate in traditional elegance married to informal comfort. With or without plants and flowers, they come in every conceivable size and shape-square, oblong, octagonal, or whatever your pleasure. The conservatory adds a treasured space to any home and makes a strong statement of individual style. The conservatories surveyed here play a rich architectural role through the use of classic detailing or sophisticated modern materials. Some are based on graceful Victorian antecedents while others are modernist sculptures of glass and steel. The evocat...