RHS How to Garden

1: The Garden you Want


1: Family gardens
2: Small gardens
3: Large gardens
4: Cottage gardens
5: Meadow gardens
6: Woodland gardens
7: Water gardens
8: Wildlife gardens
9: Formal gardens
10: Contemporary gardens


2: The Garden You’ve Got


1: How to assess your garden
2: The weather
3: Sun, shade, and the seasons
4: Your microclimate
5: Your soil


3: Flowerbeds & Borders


1: Designing beds and borders
2: Size, shape and layout
3: Choosing your plants
4: Making a planting plan
5: Sunny sites
6: Shady sites
7: Wet, sticky soils
8: Dry, free-draining soils
9: Exposed sites
10: Rock gardens
11: Choosing and buying plants


4: Perennials, Annuals & Biennials


1: Growing perennials
2: Growing annuals and biennials


5: Bulbs


1: Growing bulbs


6: Shrubs


1: Growing shrubs
2: Pruning shrubs


7: Climbers


1: Growing climbers
2: Pruning climbers


8: Roses


1: Growing roses


9: Grasses, Bamboos & Ferns


1: Growing grasses
2: Growing bamboos
3: Growing ferns


10: Lawns, Meadows & Gravel Gardens


1: What sort of lawn?
2: Looking after your lawn
3: What’s wrong with my lawn?
4: Making a new lawn
5: Alternatives to grass
6: Wildflower meadows
7: Gravel gardens


11: Trees


1: Garden trees
2: Caring for trees


12: Hedges


1: Garden hedges
2: Caring for hedges


13: Containers


1: Growing plants in containers
2: Care and maintenance
3: Growing crops in containers


14: Tools & Techniques


1: The basic tool kit
2: Watering
3: Mulches
4: Feeding your plants
5: Compost
6: Digging
7: Weeding
8: Eco-gardening
9: Propagating plants


15: Garden Doctor


1: What’s wrong?
2: Garden pests and parasites
3: Plant diseases
4: Keeping plants healthy


16: Garden Year Planner


1: Early spring
2: Mid- to late spring
3: Early summer
4: Mid- to late summer
5: Autumn
6: Winter
7: Glossary
8: Understanding plant names


17: Index
18: Acknowledgements