A reference book for every gardener throughout the gardening year, this provides information on planting and caring for flowers, fruits and vegetables, and trees and shrubs. This encyclopedia opens with garden planning, followed by chapters on bulbs, corms and tubers, annuals and biennials, roses and rose-growing, hardy perennials, favourite garden flowers, trees and shrubs. Also included are sections dealing with rock gardens and garden pool, greenhouse, house plants, fruit, herbs, vegetables and salads. Finally, there is a useful gardener's glossary and a month-by-month account of the gardener's year.