Gardening for Pleasure: A Practical Guide to the Essential Skills

Featuring 455 color photographs, drawings, and plans, this books is the most up-to-date and original guide available on potager design and edible landscaping. The myriad suggestions offered are suitable for gardens of all sizes.The chapters cover how to design a garden; how to use fruit as a decorative element; gardening techniques from propagation to pest control; and an extensive A to Z plant directory of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and fruits. More than 50 color illustrations, in addition to the 400 color photographs, clearly show how to reproduce the techniques discussed.