This classic and indispensable reference, originally published in the 1990s, is now back in print.

Details essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing. This work features more than 200 color photographs, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species.

Describes and illustrates techniques required to design, implement and maintain a green roof or wall to professional standards. This book explains how roofs may be modified to bear the weight of vegetation, and discusses different options for drainage layers and growing media, and lists the plants suitable for different climates and environments.

Al Rogers has been growing peonies since childhood, and this book represents more than 60 years' experience. All aspects of peony history, lore, people, identification, propagation, hybridizing and cultivation.

This edition introduces and explains fundamental botanical concepts to gardeners of all abilities, helping them understand plants from a plant's point of view.

Helps you choose the plants you want for your garden and learn to position and care for them. This title offers profiles of 15,500 garden plants: from new and exotic varieties to garden favourites. It offers advice on beating pests and diseases and creating displays. It includes a section on the popular plants such as lilies and hostas.