The Complete Garden Guide: A Comprehensive Reference for All Your Garden Needs

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Summary: Complete is Right
Review: I hate using an overly-used quote, but if you only get one book on gardening, then make it this one! It's great for beginners as well as intermediates. It's filled with wonderful tips on designing and maintaining lawns and gardens, along with how to deal with pests and diseases. The writing of the book is easy to understand, and there are hundreds of pictures explaining layouts and designs. This book is ideal for anyone who wishes to grow vegetables, flowers, trees, and shrubs. The largest section breaks down the plants by annuals, perennials, wildflowers, etc with the most complete explaination of plants, where to grown them, and how to grow them that I have ever seen. Just about every page has a gorgeous photo or diagram on it. My one and only complaint is that some of the tiny flowers on bushes or shrubs would have been easier to see if their picture had been printed in a larger size, but I consider this so minor compared to the almost 1000 pages of information. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: The Complete Garden Guide
Review: I hate using an overly-used quote, but if you only get one book on gardening, then make it this one! It's great for beginners as well as intermediates. It's filled with wonderful tips on designing and maintaining lawns and gardens, along with how to deal with pests and diseases. The writing of the book is easy to understand, and there are hundreds of pictures explaining layouts and designs. This book is ideal for anyone who wishes to grow vegetables, flowers, trees, and shrubs. The largest section breaks down the plants by annuals, perennials, wildflowers, etc with the most complete explaination of plants, where to grown them, and how to grow them that I have ever seen. Just about every page has a gorgeous photo or diagram on it. My one and only complaint is that some of the tiny flowers on bushes or shrubs would have been easier to see if their picture had been printed in a larger size, but I consider this so minor compared to the almost 1000 pages of information. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Complete is Right
Review: I love this book it has everything you could possibly need to know about gardening. From starting seedlings to what plants are best for your zone. It's big with tons of great information and simple instructions.

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Summary: SLICK. INFORMATIVE. COLORFUL. DISHES THE DIRT, INDEED!
Review: Spring is about to be sprung, and we cannot think of a better way to get a head start than with this door stop (or murder weapon, depending on your take) masquerading as a book. (Carry this one around and your green thumbs will be black-and-blue.) But if it's comprehensiveness you want, things are growing right here. Everything -- and we mean everything -- gardening gurus and wannabes need to know is here. There are handy plant guides, zone and frost maps, detailed garden plans, illustrated troubleshooting guide, sections on rotating crops, creating topiaries, plant diseases, planting bulbs, composing color, choosing garden accessories -- 1,000 slick, color pages covering more than 600 entries. Just add water.

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Summary: Super Deluxe Volume Tells It All !
Review: This gorgeous 1,000 page library book weighing over 7 pounds gives the most up-to-date info on topics ranging from: Designing Your Garden, Furnishing Your Landscape and Designing With Plants, to Problem Solving, Coping With Garden Pests and Growing a Healthy Lawn. Loaded with beautiful, large, full color pictures on every page. Easy reading and a complete index leads you to answers to all of your garden questions. THE book for garden experts and novices alike. You'll want this in your library.

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Summary: Great resource for the home
Review: You have to have this book, it answers nearly every question I had about gardening. Including use of weed killers, which plants do well in the shade, great photos, even indoor plants and stuff to grow for your kitchen and the recipes to go with them. Its is expensive, but well worth it.