Gardening by Rosenfeld, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Begin reading Half-title page Acknowledgements Title page Copyright page Contents 1. The Garden’s Engine – The Soil

Keeping the soil in good shape

Add organic matter Make your own compost Never stand on the soil

Knowing what you’ve got

Clay Sand, chalk and dinosaurs

Digging-schmigging – who needs it? Who needs grass and soil? Try gravel The technical bit – the chemistry test

Give plants the right diet

Battling extremes

Planting by the sea Dry shade

2. Garden Designs

Reliving the Renaissance Cottage gardening Think Mediterranean Copy the Japanese ... Or the Chinese Cloud pruning Inject Islamic patterns Contemporary gardens Wildlife gardens and drifts

3. The Structural Basics

Walls Hedges

Leyland cypress – who’s to blame? Bamboo (for screens and hedges)

Paths Silver birch and hazel structures Willow structures and edging

4. Trees

What’s inside a tree? Is biggest best? Is there a right way to plant a tree?

Mycorrhizal fungi

Tree topiary and American websites Tackling overgrown trees Coppicing and pollarding The best conifers (and that’s not a contradiction) Christmas trees, and what to do with them The winter garden (that’s autumn to spring)

Trees with smart bark (the shopping list) ... Spring flowers/blossom Autumn leaves Berries/fruit Extra tricks

Architectural/high-performance trees (and shrubs) Topiary

5. Climbers and Shrubs

The up-there garden

The walls are OK but not the roof Scented climbers Other (weird, whacky and beautiful) climbers

How to grow bush roses And two views on climbing roses How to plant shrubs

Moving shrubs

Winter shrubs for scent, berries and flowers

6. The Flower Garden

Planting a border; what goes where? Scent

Heady, powerful (shrubby) scents Get-your-nose-in scents Making a pot-pourri Perfect pongers

Large-leaved exotica Grasses Annuals and biennials Perennials Bulbs

Planting Feeding Dividing The big three for late winter-spring The summer bulbs Autumn-late winter bulbs

Flower arranging and water lilies Poisonous plants

7. Gardening on the (Almost) Cheap

DIY propagation

Sowing Take cuttings Or try dividing Suckers Layering A cold frame is ...

8. Containers

Are they worth it? What makes a good container?

What next? Does it matter what compost you throw in? Watering, feeding, etc What if a plant bursts out of its container?

Pot plants and ants Why houseplants belong outside Lemon trees

Ponds in containers

9. Kitchen Gardens

Narrow, raised beds

Warming the soil

Warm walls (Some) essential crops

Intercropping Why crop rotation matters

Fruit in the small garden Some (essential) herbs Greenhouses and polytunnels

10. Gardens for Wildlife

Ponds

Green soup Pond plants The wildlife

Bog gardens Attracting birds

Building a hide Binoculars Victimize cats

The wildlife nobody wants

11. What They Never Tell You

What is life like as a nurseryman? Plant hunting Slugs – the real story Books, magazines and show gardens

Appendix

Nine cheesy plants and TV makeover programmes Ten plants to covet The Fibonacci numbers

General Index Plant Index

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