The Complete Gardener's Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Care for Your Garden

by Simon Akeroyd

Containing all the practical techniques, inspirational ideas, and problem-solving advice you need to make and maintain a garden of any size, The Complete Gardener's Guide is a new, one-stop manual for both beginner and more experienced gardeners. More than 1,000 photographs illustrate every aspect of practical gardening — from basic techniques and simple tools to get started, to planning and design advise to help you create the garden you want — and DK's unrivaled integration of text and pictures means that you can instantly see, as well as learn, what to do.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

448 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 2011

About the author

Simon is an author having written over 30 gardening books, and contributes to national gardening magazines and newspapers. He has also featured as a TV presenter and on radio. He was previously Garden Manager for both RHS and National Trust. He was also a BBC producer.

He currently lives in South Devon.

Reviews

[Susan Ciliberti · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an amazing reference book for vegetable and flower gardening. Very informative with helpful charts and beautiful photos. I was only able to scratch the surface of all that it has to offer and plan to refer to it again in the future.

[Alex Bonis · Rating 4 out of 5]

looking to start gardening this summer and found this very informative! looking forward to trying the tips and ideas i got from this book this summer!

[Rosebud · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good book that covers virtually all areas of gardening. I learned a few specifics about trimming plants and maintaining the garden beds.