Complete Gardener's DictionaryGardeners puzzled by recommendations to "buy a swoe", or confused when trying to understand the difference between "linear" and "obovate" leaves will find answers here -- in understandable English and precise diagrams. Complete Gardener's Dictionary defines more than 2,500 botanical terms and garden-related terms, translating technical information into simple language. It gives readers listings and definitions of a wide array of common gardening terms and practices, garden tools and their specific uses, landscape methods, horticulture, soil analysis and care, fertilizing, controlling pests and diseases, and many other related topics. The book features unusually handsome and botanically accurate black-and-white line art -- approximately 500 illustrations in all. |