Reader's Digest Guide to Creative Gardening : [A Guide to the Best Plants and How to Use Them][Annuals, Biennials; Perennials; Bulbs, Corms & Tubers; Climbing Plants; Rock Garden Plants; Roses; Shrubs; Trees; Water Garden Plants; Plant Hunters; etc]

Paterson, Allen. ; Batey, Mavis.; Reader's Digest Association (Great Britain); Kenneth A. Beckett; Richard Bisgrove, Lizzie Boyd, John Brookes, Beth Chatto, Penelope Hobhouse, Roy Lancaster, Kenneth Lemmon, Chrisopher Lloyd, Kay Sanecki, Brian Mathe

Published by London ; New York : Reader's Digest Association, 1984, 1988., 1988

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1st edition, reprinted 1988 ; 384 pp. : color illustrations ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0276352238 ; LCCN: 89-113721 ; OCLC: 15307135 ; LC: SB451.36.G7; Dewey: 635.9 ; pictorial color boards ; This book is NOTa pared-down collection of articles on gardening, but rather a massive, encyclopedic and fully illustrated catalog of landscape plants. The vast majority are exceptionally photographed in color by a vast phalanx of photographers, and where there is not a photo, the illustration is a watercolor of very good quality by any one of 28 noted artists ; unusual plants are given full descriptions, and side trips are provided in the form of essays on various related subjects ; heavy volume ; no dustjacket ; FINE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reader's Digest Guide to Creative Gardening : [A Guide to the Best Plants and How to Use Them][Annuals, Biennials; Perennials; Bulbs, Corms & Tubers; Climbing Plants; Rock Garden Plants; Roses; Shrubs; Trees; Water Garden Plants; Plant Hunters; etc]
• Publisher: London ; New York : Reader's Digest Association, 1984, 1988.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog 74 - Gardening