> Skip to content
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241661611
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $65.00

RHS What Plant Where Encyclopedia

An Expert Guide to More Than 3,000 Plants



More than 3,000 brilliant ideas for what to plant in your garden, hand picked by RHS experts

Planning a garden has never been simpler with this guide to more than 3,000 perfect plants for every location, style, and scenario.

Matching the right plant to the right location is more than half the battle when it comes to gardening. Whether your site is stuck in shade or scorching in the sun, on a windy promontory or frost-prone hollow, this book has an almost inexhaustible array of planting suggestions so you can make the right choices for a thriving garden.

Choose the ideal plant for more than 65 different locations, style effects, and themes, from meadow-style planting and pollinator-friendly flowers, to plants for year-round interest and the most resilient choices for a changing climate.

Simple planting recipes show you how to create beautiful containers, beds, borders, and garden designs.

A Special Effects section helps you find plants with fragrant, colourful, or architectural properties and offers solutions to common problems, such as weed-suppressing ground cover.

With RHS What Plant Where Encyclopedia you'll be inspired to discover thrilling new plants and feel reassured that they'll have the best chance to bloom.

  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241661611
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $65.00

About the author

DK

We believe in the power of discovery. That’s why we create books for everyone that explore ideas and nurture curiosity about the world we live in.
From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books.

Praise for RHS What Plant Where Encyclopedia

Whether you're green-fingered or not, you can't help but be impressed with this bumper photographic guide to more than 3,000 plants. Be prepared to achieve your dream garden.

Woman Magazine
penguin pop image
penguin pop image