Everything you need to know to achieve dazzling displays, including colour and life right through the seasons, year after year with hardy perennials. This illustrated plant directory lists popular perennials from 70 families.

A guide to hardy, easy-to-grow plants that provide interest over more than one season. There is advice on selecting and maintaining the right plants, and an illustrated A to Z directory of those plants for easy reference, photographs, information, and a glossary of terms and related Websites.

This title covers all readers need to know for the successful growth, maintenance and propagation of these versatile plants, including advice on selecting species to make the most of their different habits and forms, and utilizing their architectural qualities to best effect.

A guide for the aspiring organic gardener - season by season. It presents advice on how best to manage pests and disease without abrasive or toxic substances. It covers the basics of sowing and growing through to harvesting crops, as well as the organic way to care for trees, shrubs and garden plants too.

Having an allotment, or at least growing some of your own fruit and vegetables, is very popular. This book features the non-growing side of allotment gardening; the practical and functional elements of a typical plot. It features various projects that range from very basic and intermediate to more complex tasks, such as building a shed.

Suitable for organic growers, this title helps to discover the wonderful diversity of herbs. It offers practical advice on planning an herb garden, propagating, planting, harvesting, drying and storing along with a handy calendar of jobs.

A look at all aspects of gnome life, their origins and fashions, their pastimes, opinions and culinary tastes. It examines urban gnomes, suburban, bucolic and wild ones.