The rose is the nation's favourite flower and never goes out of fashion. This title shows how to grow and care for roses in your garden. It covers the essential techniques and provides inspirational ideas for training and planting schemes that will ensure healthy plants and stunning displays year on year.

This handbook enables readers to identify more than 40 wildflower species. Working closely with the Wildlife Trusts, Wildlife Watch initiative, readers are encouraged to personalize their handbook by adding photos, making notes, placing stickers and logging sightings.

Practical gardens with hedge boundaries and lawn expanses needn't be dull. In fact, the range of plants now available for finishing borders is immense - and achieving an attractive lawn requires as much care as any flower bed. This book examines a range of groundcovers, hedges and lawns.

This manual shows the reader how to grow and use broad-leaved evergreens to maximum effect. A directory gives details of a wide selection of the broad-based trees, shrubs and climbers hardy in Britain. Plants are listed by use, type of foliage, flower colour and season of flowering.

Sun-loving plants come in various shapes, colours and sizes. Drought-tolerant plants are increasingly popular and sought after by gardeners facing water restrictions, this work shows how we can adapt the planting in our gardens to include species that love hot, dry conditions and can thrive with minimal water.

Divided according to their natural habitats, this book features almost 200 different wild plants and photographs of each. It introduces these habitats with practical information and tips, along with planting plans that show you how to combine plants creatively for maximum effect.