Home Gardener's Garden Pests & Diseases

Planting in containers and designing, improving and maintaining container gardens

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David Squire

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Specialist Guide

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All gardeners know the disappointment of finding their flowers nibbled, or their prized produce riddled with rust. Armed with this essential guide, which helps you identify, target, and banish the likely culprits, you can stop the destruction.Get acquainted with all the common pests and diseases that afflict ornamentals, vegetables, fruits, and houseplants, and learn the best ways to deal with them. The effective options include both biological controls-increasingly popular in the gardening world-as well as the better-known organic and chemical methods.At-a-glance checklists explain which ailments generally afflict various plant types, from roses and rock-garden plants to soft fruits and vegetables.

Author Biography:

David Squire is an experienced gardening writer and editor. Having contributed to numerous gardening magazines he is the author of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books including four titles in the Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants which, in 2005, was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.

Release date Australia

June 1st, 2016

Author

David Squire

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

Series

Specialist Guide

Dimensions

218x280x8

ISBN-13

9781580117791

Product ID

24547678

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