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Plant user handbook : a guide to effective specifying /

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Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation. Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are professionally engaged in the use of plants in publ...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fieldhouse, Ken, Hitchmough, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
©2004
Subjects:
Landscape plants > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Planting design > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. Preliminaries to plant use and the landscape
  • 1. Introduction to plant use in the landscape / James Hitchmough and Peter Thoday
  • 2. Selecting plant species, cultivars and nursery products / James Hitchmough
  • 3. Procuring plants for landscape projects / Nick Coslett, Tom La Dell and James Wilson (with contributions from Mike Smith, Mike Browell and John Parker)
  • II. Managing plant growth on landscape sites
  • 4. Amelioration of underperforming soils / Tony Kendle and Bob Sherman
  • 5. Soil drainage / Gordon Spoor
  • 6. Weed control in amenity landscapes / Bob Froud-Williams
  • 7. The long term health of plants / Tony Kendle
  • III. Establishment and management of trees
  • 8. The establishment of planted nursery stock / James Hitchmough
  • 9. Tree roots and buildings / Glyn Percival
  • 10. Semi-mature trees / James Wilson, Caroline Swann and Peter Thoday
  • 11. Trees in paving / Tony Edwards and Tim Gale
  • 12. Creating urban woodlands / Nerys Jones
  • IV. Establishment and management of smaller woody plants
  • 13. Shrub mosaics and woodland edge / Nigel Dunnett
  • 14. Ground cover / Peter Thoday
  • 15. Hedges and their management / Tom Wright, Terence Henry and Jed Bultitude
  • 16. Pruning shrubs / Tom La Dell
  • 17. Climbing plants / Tom La Dell
  • 18. Roof gardens / Steve Scrivens
  • V. Establishment and management of herbaceous plants
  • 19. Wildflowers in rural landscapes / Neil Bayfield
  • 20. Wildflower landscapes in the urban environment / Richard Scott
  • 21. Aquatic planting / Kevin Patrick
  • 22. Direct-sown annual meadows / Nigel Dunnett
  • 23. Bedding plants / Richard Bisgrove
  • 24. Bulbous plants for use in designed landscapes / Fergus Garrett and Rory Dusoir
  • 25. Herbaceous perennials / James Hitchmough
  • 26. Amenity and sports turf seed John Hacker
  • 27. The management of amenity grasslands / Andy Boorman.