How to brighten up your garden during the darkest winter months from a doyen of British horticulture. To those who have thought of winter as the dead season, Graham Stuart Thomas's book will come as a revelation. This is the classic book on the subject and has been extensively revised and enlarged by the author from it's original edition. It covers both large and small gardens and describes the amazing number of trees, shrubs, plants and bulbs which are available to provide colour in flower, foliage and fruit during the winter months. Cultivation, flowering and planting periods and the uses and arrangements of the selected plants are all covered in this comprehensive volume.