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Practical Gardening Library:
The Perfect Border

by Barbara Segall

0754800385
96 pages; Hardcover; Color Photos Throughout

This volume is packed with professional advice and inspirational ideas to create wonderful plant combinations. There are borders to suit different sites, soil types, shapes, and sizes. From riotous cottage-garden borders to the well-ordered herb border, there are designs to appeal to everyone. Other types of borders featured in this lovely volume include: theme borders, divided by color or season; schemes devoted to a single type of plant; a border designed specifically for children; and much more. There is also much information on site analysis, improving soil conditions, general care and maintenance, weeding, feeding, dividing bulbs, moving mature plants, and more.