The Complete Gardener's Guide: The One-Stop Guide to Plan, Sow, Plant, and Grow Your Garden

by D.K. Publishing

A one-stop treasure trove from the experts at RHS that covers every aspect of gardening!

Dreaming of having the perfect garden? Does it have a vegetable patch? Classic borders or flowers to attract wildlife? A picturesque garden for all to marvel at is achievable with this gardening guide, which gives you vital tools to achieve whatever you desire for your dream garden. 

Delve into this concise and practical guide to find all the gardening ideas and advice you need to create a spectacular, thriving garden. Here’s what you’ll find

   • A comprehensive guide covering everything from growing in containers to planting a garden from scratch
   • Fully illustrated with detailed step-by-steps and inspirational gardening ideas
   • Detailed beginner’s guide to garden design, including step-by-step instructions for simple hard landscaping such as building a raised bed, creating a pond or laying a patio
   • Covers all aspects of planting styles, including “recipes” to make the most of different types of plants
   • Easy-to-follow guides on how to water, feed, prune and propagate your garden
   • Advice on problem-solving and controlling weeds and pests
   • A chapter full of Plant Chooser galleries to help you grow the right plant in the right place at the right time

Learn how to plan, sow, plant and protect your garden throughout the year with expert tips and techniques that will see your garden flourishing. Discover how to design with plants by using color and texture to create inspirational displays, and keep them at their best with jargon-free guides to pruning and preventing pests and diseases. 

Undertake a new endeavor of DIY landscaping projects, which include laying your own patio or lawn, or building a raised bed ready for you to grow your own fruit and vegetables. Choose from a catalog of hundreds of different ornamental plants to find varieties that will thrive in your garden’s climate and provide seasonal interest throughout the year.

The Complete Gardener’s Guide is the perfect all-round practical reference book for gardening beginners, also for those looking for a step up from a beginners’ gardening book.

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

448 pages, Hardcover

Published October 20, 2020

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Ti Su · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's just an magazine bound together. Lots of pictures but cluttered and the blurbs are useless to someone really wanting to learn. "For a continuous harvest all year, choose crops and varieties that mature at different rates and sow them every three weeks or so. You can also choose varieties for storing, such as late-season apples." This doesn't scream knowledgeable gardener to me, it seems like a 18-year old writing a summary of 5 articles they read.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am very new to gardening. This book helped me learn everything I needed to know and more! It’s great for not only beginners, but also those who just want to learn more about how to plant different things and how to create the perfect garden to fit your lifestyle.

[Martha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Covers a lot of areas of the garden, but not much detail. A general planner.

[Sophia Fantauzzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good resource. It made me realize that I know more than I think I do. I feel more competent to jump in and continue to experiment with growing and gardening.

[Madeline Singleton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has everything you need

[Christian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know what a perennial is now.
5/5

[H · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very helpful and relatively in-depth, and I enjoyed reading. However there are a handful of typos, the sentences/paragraphs often seem haphazardly organized, some chapters repeat the same information, and I think it would be helpful to beginners to have a glossary of terms. Still a good resource overall