"This month-by-month guide to garden maintenance, planning, and plant care covers trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, fruit, vegetables, lawns, and greenhouses, with special attention given to rock and water gardens. A checklist of tasks to do each month is followed by a recommended list of plants. Bird, author of 27 gardening books, gives advice on pruning, grafting, propagation, weeding, composting, and tools and equipment. Throughout the book are helpful gardening hints. There are 70 pages in color and 100 instructive black-and-white illustrations."--Booklist. -- amazon.com
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