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A practical guide to garden design that discusses priorities, surveying, analyzing, zoning, and setting up a work schedule; covers numerous ideas for horizontal surfaces, vertical elements, and furnishings; and presents several garden plans.

Twenty-two designers show how to create twenty-two traditional, naturalistic, and specialty gardens, each with a different theme.

A guide to gardening with perennials, discussing garden design, theme gardening, light and soil, color, and propagation; and including profiles and illustrations of 104 popular perennials and biennials.

Offers advice on creating gardens that attract butterflies, featuring suggested garden plans, plant listings, and a butterfly identification guide, as well as information on the life cycle of the colorful insects.

A color-illustrated guide to garden beds and borders that presents design strategies and special techniques, describes plants that make good borders, and profiles gardens as examples.

A guide to plant propagation that illustrates practical step-by-step propagation techniques and offers an alphabetically arranged overview of more than one thousand garden plants.

A guide to creating a beautiful garden on a budget that offers expert tips for low-cost garden design and planting and creative ideas for creating a dream garden on a tight budget.

Outlines the techniques involved in raising plants from seeds, cuttings, division, layering, and other methods of propagation, and features an encyclopedia of approximately eighteen hundred hardy and tender ornamental and fruiting plants, vegetables, and culinary herbs.

A guide to plant propagation that includes explanations of the different propagation techniques, advice on choosing the right seeds, and instructions for caring for the plants.