Planting for Visual Impact and Scent in Borders and Containers: A Complete Guide to Choosing and Using Annuals, Perennials, Shrubs, Bulbs and ... Sequences and 580 Fabulous Photographs - Softcover

This book features over 570 colour photographs, including stunning plant directories, inspirational plantings, and practical step-by-step techniques. Providing all the essential gardening know-how, it shows how to create a fabulous garden with lasting impact, year-round colour and delicious scent. It teaches how to use scented bulbs, annuals, shrubs and trees to create a welcoming and relaxing outdoor environment. Here, is the ultimate inspirational guide to planning, creating and maintaining bountiful borders of beautiful blooms all year round. This is a book for the enthusiastic and practical as well as the aspirational gardener. It shows how to make best use of a plant's features to create a particular style of garden, and how to keep your garden looking good all year round. Packed with essential information, hints and professional tips, this is the perfect planting guide and practical handbook.

Richard Bird has been gardening since childhood and currently maintains a large garden where his abiding passion for plants is very evident. He has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and the Alpine Garden Society's magazine Bulletin. Jackie Matthews has contributed to and edited many gardening books, including reference manuals. She lives in the Suffolk countryside where she is able to indulge her passion for wildlife-friendly gardening and to grow herbs and vegetables organically. Andrew Mikolajski is an established gardening expert, consultant and best-selling author. He edited the RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers and the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening and has written many gardening titles, including a number of the New Plant Library series, published by Southwater.