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The best horticultural bookshop in the UK is at the RHS Gardens, Wisley, they do mail order, and of course a huge range is available via the Internet.  We offer a small range of books written by people who really know their subject and that relate particularly to the plants we sell.

Shrubs for the Milder Counties W. Arnold-Forster. 29 colour plates.  381 pp. Hardback. 22.5 x 14.5 cm.  First published in 1948 this revised edition was published in 2000.  Shrubs for the Milder Counties is a classic of the gardening literature.  W. Arnold-Forster's book was based on a lifetimes gardening experience most of which was spent high on a windswept Cornish moor.  Chapters on:

Opportunities and Problems
Wind and Shelter
Planting for Roadsides and Towns
A General Planting List
Acacias
Camellias
Ceanothus
Eucalyptus
Magnolias, by G. H. Johnstone
Metrosideros
Nothofagus - Southem Beeches
Olearias
Prunus, Pyrus and Sorbus
Rhododendrons and Azaleas
Some Uncommon, Untried, or Tender Shrubs
Addendum-Plant Name Changes, by Peter Clough
Index

£25.00 plus £4.50 packing & postage within the UK.  P&P free when ordered with plants!

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Gardening on the Edge - Drawing on the Cornwall Experience General Editor Philip McMillan Browse. Full colour throughout; approx. 350 photographs.  248 pp. Hardback. 18.9 x 24.6 cm.  Do not let the fact that you don't garden by the sea in Cornwall put you off; we all have our microclimates.  This is a book about plants many of which you will never have heard of but immediately want.  It is a "must have" for plant lovers and adventurous gardeners.  Chapters on:

Gardening at the Edge of the Sea - Peter Clough
Recent Woody Plant Arrivals in Cornwall - Tom Hudson
Conifers - Chris Page
Palms - Mark Brent
Proteaceae - Guy Moore
Bamboos & Restios - Michael Bell & Les Cathery
Hedychiums & Others - Edward Needham
Climbers - Charlie Pridham
Ferns, Clubmosses and Horsetails - Chris Page
Some Uncommon, Untried or Tender Plants - Rob Senior

£25.00 plus £4.50 packing & postage within the UK.  P&P free when ordered with plants!

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Bananas You Can Grow by Dr James Waddick and Glen Stokes of Stokes Tropicals, Louisiana. The only popular guide to bananas. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs of more than 60 bananas. Paperback.  128 pp. Glued. 18.5 x 23.5 cm.  Written from an American perspective but with each copy we supply a European zone hardiness map … and a KobaKoba bookmark!  £14.95 plus £2.00 packing & postage within the UK.  P&P free when ordered with plants!

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Ornamental Gingers : A Guide to Cultivation and Selection by Tim Chapman of Gingerwood Nursery, Louisiana.  The only popular guide to the gingers. Tim is one of the pioneers of the recent interest in this group and is responsible for a number of important introductions from south east Asia such as Curcuma ‘Emperor’.  Paperback. 50 pp. + 6 pp. colour. Spiral bound. 21.5 x 28 cm.  Written from an American perspective but with each copy we supply a European zone hardiness map … and a KobaKoba bookmark!  £14.95 plus £2.00 packing & postage within the UK.  P&P free when ordered with plants!            CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK - PLEASE ENQUIRE

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Purchased together, Bananas You Can Grow & Ornamental Gingers can be purchased for a combined price of £28 plus £3.00 packing & postage within the UK. 

PLEASE NOTE that books are sent packing and carriage free if ordered with plants.

Books make the perfect gift!

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