Produced by the "Amateur Gardening" team, this compendium of gardening lore offers thousands of gardening tips and answers in response to the most commonly asked questions. It includes professional techniques, such as propagation, pruning, designing, planting, training, feeding and watering.

Herbaceous perennials: choosing what's right for your garden, planting and growing
tools and machinery: what to use and how to look after it
vegetables: planning and sowing to cultivation and harvesting
herbs: cultivating for culinary and medicinal purposes
fruit: how to design and look after a fruit garden
lawns: achieve the perfect look and say goodbye to weeds
water gardening: installation, planting, fish
best plants: for shade, sand, hot and dry spots for clay, acid or alkaline soils, north facing walls, for boggy areas, town gardens, roof gardens and grand estates
indoor gardening: house plants, containers, care and feeding
common diseases and how to prevent them.