This comprehensive guide offers information on planning and creating lawns, beds and borders as well as a section on planting spectacular pots and window boxes. There are tips on water gardening, with step-by-step advice on creating ponds and bog gardens, and also advice on how to improve the soil and how to achieve a perfect lawn. A section on successful greenhouse gardening gives advice on controlling the greenhouse environment, watering and feeding and growing tender crops, such as tomatoes and cucumbers. The final sections cover the skills needed to keep a garden flourishing and blooming, from weeding and feeding to pest control and propagation. Combined with an at-a-glance checklist of essential seasonal tasks, this book is a gardening companion for both complete beginners and experienced gardeners.