Geoff Bryant & Eion Scarrow- The Complete New Zealand Gardener

(USED-Good Cond)- Hardback

The book is divided into three main sections:

Starting Out

The Plants

Caring For Your Garden

Within these sections there are chapters on: assessing your site and climate, gardening under cover, planning your garden, extensive plant lists of New Zealand's most popular tree's, shrubs, climbers, annuals and perennials, and bulbs, choosing and laying lawns, designing vegetable and herb gardens, growing fruit and nut trees, orchids, ferns, palms, pest, disease and weed control, plant nutrition, improving the soil, pruning, propagation.

 To help assimilate all this information, a useful garden calendar for both North and South Islands is also included.

 Whether starting from scratch with a new garden or redeveloping an existing one, The Complete New Zealand Gardener will guide you through the major decisions you will need to make, and help you to create and look after your ultimate garden.

For many years there has been a need for a large, comprehensive, practical gardening book truly and originally written for New Zealand conditions. The Complete New Zealand Gardener fulfils these criteria. The authors, Geoff Bryant and Eion Scarrow, pool their knowledge and years of experience as both home gardeners and horticulturists to provide this concise up, to-date and authoritative gardening guide that will both inform and inspire.

 The clear. easy to use layout combines pratical text with superb colour photographs, diagrams and handy tables to create an enduring reference book for all New Zealand gardeners, beginners and the more experienced alike.