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Royal Horticultural Society.
Birds in Your Garden.
Pan Macmillan. 2007

The UK has 15 million gardens covering 270,000 hectares. That’s more than all the National Nature Reserves in the UK, which shows just how important gardens can be.

Particularly for birds. As the countryside diminishes and the urban sprawl expands, birds are becoming increasingly dependent on gardens for their food, their nesting opportunities, and even their very survival.

This book shows how you can turn your garden into a haven for birds, and is packed with advice from Royal Horticultural Society and Wildlife Trust experts. With this book, you can find out how to encourage a host of birds into your garden, helping them to get through their days and nights, and giving you even greater pleasure from your own personal nature reserve.

Royal Horticultural Society.
RHS Botany for Gardeners: the art and science of gardening explained and explored.
Mitchell Beazley. 2013

RHS BOTANY for GARDENERS is more than just a useful reference book on the science of botany and the language of horticulture – it is a practical, hands-on guide that will help gardeners understand how plants grow, what affects their performance and how to get better results.

Illustrated throughout with beautiful botanical prints and simple diagrams, RHS Botany for Gardeners provides easy-to-understand explanations of over 3,000 botanical words and terms, and shows how these can be applied to everyday gardening practice. For easy navigation, the book is divided into thematic chapters covering everything from Plant Parts to Plant Pests, and further subdivided into useful headings such as ‘Seed Sowing’ and ‘Pruning’. ‘Botany in Action’ boxes provide instantly accessible practical tips and advice, and feature spreads profile the remarkable individuals who collected, studied and illustrated the plants that we grow today.

Aided by this book, gardeners will unlock the wealth of information that lies within the intriguing world of botanical science – and their gardens will thrive as a result.