> Skip to content
  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143796947
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

Gardening Through the Year in Australia




Packed with essential gardening advice, keep your garden in great condition all year round with the newly updated Australian edition of this bestselling guide.

Discover what to do when with this ultimate gardening guide. Gardening Through the Year in Australia takes you systematically through the year, each chapter looking in-depth at one month at a time. A handy 'To Do' list, along with 'Last Chance' reminders and 'Get Ahead' tips, gives you an overview of the month’s tasks, followed by an inspirational gallery of 'Star Plants' to showcase the visual highlights of the month. The rest of each chapter is packed with advice on plant care, maintaining garden features and what to prune when, with illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. A photographic A–Z appendix of nearly 350 plants provides detailed information on growing habit and care.

This updated edition features brand-new visual galleries that showcase a gardening year at-a-glance, with inspirational ideas for achieving colour, scent or eye-catching foliage in your garden for every month of the year. Each month has updated 'Weather Watch' and plant care information. Packed with essential gardening advice, Gardening Through the Year is the must-have book for new gardeners and a trusty reference for old hands.

  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143796947
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

Ian Spence

Ian Spence was right-hand man to BBC Gardeners' World presenter Geoff Hamilton. As head gardener at Barnsdale in Rutland, England, Ian prepared weekly projects for the Gardeners' World TV programme, and today he continues to demonstrate many gardening techniques for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.

Also by Ian Spence

See all

Discover more

Article
Last days of autumn

May is the last month of autumn, with sunny days, cool nights and less humidity. Learn what you can do in and around the garden this month.        

penguin pop image
penguin pop image