Gardening in Australia
By RTM Pescott
$17.00
In a simple and readable fashion, the author has exhaustively covered every aspect of garden planning and management.
He deals with the preparation and design of gardens, including lawn preparation and management, and devotes extensive space to trees and shrubs, flowers and native plants. Special gardens featuring rock and alpine plants, cacti and succulents, or ponds and pools are described, and for vegetable and fruit growing the author describes soil requirements, manuring, crop rotation, pruning and pest control. Advice is given concerning the special needs of the wide range of climatic and soil variations found in so vast a country as Australia.
In this book, the author takes the home gardener, be he experienced or a novice, through all the steps necessary to form a garden of which he will be justly proud.
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