ANNUALS & BIENNIALS (RHS) - Softcover

Packed with more than 600 photographs of over 500 plants Annuals & Biennials is an inspirational handbook to help you identify choose and grow your favourite varieties. Photographic Plant Catalogue Discover at a glance the full range of annuals and biennials available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and frost hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower colour The Plant Catalogue will offer you the perfect specimen. Practical Techniques All the essential practicalities such as selecting plants preparing the ground watering mulching feeding weeding and pest control are clearly explained. Propagation methods from sowing seeds to planting out are also given. Whether you are planting a new garden or seeking new features of interest for an established one Annuals & Biennials is your indispensable portable gardening companion.

This photoencyclopaedic guide contains 1000 portraits of annual and biennial plants arranged according to the main characteristics of each, such as size, season of interest, and colour, for ease of selection and identification by enthusiastic gardeners. Popular plant groups, such as heathers, dahlias, tulips and chrysanthemums, are featured in separate sections, showing at a glance the full range of plants available, and there is a complete index of common names which should help readers with no knowledge of botanical names to find the right plant.