RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening: The Royal Horticultural Society

Great book and includes everything you need to know for a horticulture and landscaping course.

Great Work

At 750 pages, RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening is a real heavyweight - but it puts its bulk to good use by being thoroughly comprehensive.Gardeners of all levels will find something useful here, with sections covering everything from garden design and fruit tree grafting to water and container growing, cacti and succulents.There's plenty of full colour photographs throughout to illustrate, and if you want to grow your own there's plenty of detail in the chapters on herb, fruit and vegetable gardens.The book rounds off with chapters on propagation, pests and diseases and weeds, followed by basic botany. If you're looking for a garden reference book, this is definitely one to consider.

Have been looking at my garden for a long time and wishing I knew how to even start with it. This book starts off with a whole section on planning your garden, and how best to go about it. After that there are detailed drawings, photos and paragraphs on how to look after individual plants, from planting them to pruning them, and also a list of some more popular varieties of certain plants which have their attributes listed. They have sections on how to deal with broader categories such as 'fruit trees' and others, and even have information on how to put together raised beds, water gardens, etc. As a beginner, this book will guide me well for a very long time I would imagine!

Bought as a present for a friend who told me they are delighted with it as it’s excellent, informative and helpful!

This is such a comprehensive text that it will be in regular use. Its great to have so much information in one easily accessible volume. When I have used it for longer I suspect the rating will increase to a five star category.The only dissatisfaction relates to its delivery...the first order arrived in a completely wrecked box which had clearly been dropped and squashed en route form Amazon and was left on the doorstep. The book was so damaged that it had to be returned. The second order took a long time because the delivery driver could not be bothered to come in and ring the door bell on a wet day so left a note with a phone number in the bushes outside the gate! When the driver eventually came back nearly a week later the box was again broken and severely damaged. The book itself s less damaged than before and we have kept it anyway as we could not go through the same frustration a third time. We urge Amazon to package books as heavy as this one more securely. It was not even wrapped in the box (and to change delivery companies!?)But we love the book!

I knew this was going to be a first rate reference work and was delighted to buy at this low price. Speed of delivery was an added bonus.

Excellent book for referencing just about anything to do with gardening

Bellissimo, ricco, completo, ben presentato, in inglese ma per me non e' un problema

Un libro estupendo en contenido e imágenes

Very informative book but unfortunately doesn't apply to the US. It still has tons of very good information.

It’s a comprehensive & deeply satisfying guide on gardening. An evergreen book which I hope to refer to your years to come.

J'aurais été très content de garder cette excellente référence du jardinage vendue par Amazon.fr mais l'emballage n'a pas été suffisant vu le poids du livre, le livre n'a pas été protégé sous blister et la jaquette a été abîmé. Il y avait une brûlure sur quelques pages. Avant de prendre le temps qu'il faut pour le retourner à Amazon ils exigent que le paquet soit très bien emballé...quel concept.