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Packed with more than 500 photographs of over 450 plants, this guie is an inspirational handbook to help you identify, choose and grow your favourite varieties of rock plants. Discover at a glance the full range of rock and alpine plants available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description, plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and frost hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower colour in a particular season, the Plant Catalogue will offer you the perfect specimen. All the essential practicalities such as selecting a rock or alpine plant, choosing a site and preparing the ground, watering, mulching, feeding, weeding, pest control and transplanting are clearly explained. Propagation methods, from sowing seeds to division, stem tip cutting and root cutting, are also given.
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The Royal Horticultural Society Plant Guides: Rock Plants, Linden Hawthorne, Christopher Grey-Wilson, Royal Horticultural Society
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- The Royal Horticultural Society Plant Guides: Rock Plants
- Subtitle
- A Photographic Guide to Over 450 Rock and Alpine Plants by Type, Size, Season of Interest and Colour
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Dorling Kindersley
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0751303062
- ISBN13
- 9780751303063
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- Packed with more than 500 photographs of over 450 plants, this guie is an inspirational handbook to help you identify, choose and grow your favourite varieties of rock plants. Discover at a glance the full range of rock and alpine plants available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description, plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and frost hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower colour in a particular season, the Plant Catalogue will offer you the perfect specimen. All the essential practicalities such as selecting a rock or alpine plant, choosing a site and preparing the ground, watering, mulching, feeding, weeding, pest control and transplanting are clearly explained. Propagation methods, from sowing seeds to division, stem tip cutting and root cutting, are also given.