The perfect guide to creating a beautiful garden that looks fantastic all year round

This book takes a fresh look at garden-worthy plants for Australian conditions. It will help gardeners to reappraise their climate, select appropriate plants and modify gardening practices to create beautiful gardens featuring native and exotic plants with proven drought tolerance, reliability and minimal weed potential.

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume photographic resource on perennial plants. In it, renowned horticulturist Allan Armitage describes and illustrates choice perennials in 136 genera, from Acanthus to Zephyranthes.

Advises gardeners to think about their gardens as part of an interconnected whole with the surrounding environment - with an eye to water usage, local ecology, and preservation of resources. This title showcases gardens filled with traditional and exotic plants that are designed with both visual appeal and the environment in mind.

The authoritative and long-awaited completion of the definitive series of Australian plants.

This supplement includes discussion on aromatic plants rich in essential oils, hundreds of new and revised plant entries including Kangaroo Paws, Baeckea, Dryandra, Gardenia and full encyclopaedic entries for previously unclassifed plants.

This publication caters for the professional horticulturist and amateur gardening enthusiast, and is written in an easy to understand style. Scientific terms, where used, have been explained or included in the comprehensive glossary. The text is complemen