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Create and maintain your perfect garden with the world´s finest and most authoritative source of gardening tips and advice from the experts at the RHS, now fully revised and updated.

Marking 20 years since first publication, this updated edition of the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening is the classic reference for keen gardeners. Packed with unrivalled detail, you´ll find guidance and step by steps that show you how to garden, covering everything you need to know from vegetable gardens and planting guides, to pruning and propagation. Plus new topics include how to plant in containers and living roofs.

Whatever your level of skill in the great outdoors, expert advice from editor Christopher Brickell and a team of specialist contributors will help you keep your garden thriving all year round.

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Tells you everything you need to know The Guardian

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Brickell, Christopher

Formerly Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society, Christopher Brickell is an eminent plantsman. In 1976 he was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour for his services to horticulture, followed by the CBE in 1991. A former editor of The Plantsman, he has published many botanical and horticultural papers and articles and chaired the International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants. In 1990 he was editor-in-chief for the first edition of Dorling Kindersley´s bestselling RHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers (now in its 6th edition and with sales of over three million copies). This was followed by RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening, RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and RHS Pruning & Training. He has recently completed full updates of the RHS A-Z of Garden Plants, RHS Pruning & Training, as well as RHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers.
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