Indispensible to the beginner, perhaps too broad for the experienced

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	• New Illustrated Guide to Gardening Reader's Digest Editors Readers Digest, 2000 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great for beginners

For all new to gardening, this book is wonderful. It will give you a basic overview of all aspects of gardening to flowers, foliage, fruits and veggies.

I had no clue before I bought this book and now I'm hooked and getting better every year

Great introduction

I'm new to gardening after entering retirement. My son gave me this book as a gift, and I've found it invaluable. You can teach an old dog new tricks...

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Great Gardening book

This book is exactly what I was looking for and could not find. I had a very old edition of this book many years ago and was looking for a replacement. This covers all aspects of gardening and what I need to know. I highly recommend this book. Easy to read, concise and to the point information.

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Indispensible to the beginner, perhaps too broad for the experienced

Last year, my partner managed to get a wild hair up his backside and insisted that the balcony outside our home be somewhat more "green". To be honest, I'm incapable of telling a rose from a pansy, and, since I knew that the comprehensive task of planting and, more importantly, maintaining the d**ned thing once it was put into place would fall on my shoulders, I quickly started a search for the best text I could find.

I've relied on Readers' Digest in the past for such, and there was no disappointment in this case. The book is usefully divided into sections by plant category and use - i.e. roses get their own chapter and section while pansies are listed under another amongst others similar to its appearance and use. The voluminous book's text and information is highly useful, but the fact that it is heavily illustrated and filled with photographs is invaluable. This is particularly true in the sections dealing with diseases and a malady of the plant - I mean, how "yellow" is that already yellowish-green plant when it's unhealthy from over-watering, disease or some such? Anyway, long and short, we won the "balcony" award for the flat complex last year - despite being first timers and all.

What's more, this book has actually made the whole process somewhat fun. This year, when it was announced that it was time to start the balcony again, I was actually quite looking forward to it, and even have a few ideas of my own.

The subject matter is neccessarily broad, and a more experienced gardner will likely find much of the material too basic to be more than a reference book. However, for gardening novices like myself, it's perfect!

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Info by the truckload

Great book for vegetables, trees, bushes, flowers, etc. The sections on diseases and pests were extremely beneficial in detecting what was going wrong in my yard. My only complaint was that some of the pictures were in black and white and I prefer color.

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The most definitive practical gardening book on the market-now completely revised and updated -covers every aspect of growing healthy flowers, trees, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, and herbs. No other gardening book is needed.

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