Fish, Margery. A Flower For Every Day.
1st. Ed. Thus. Pub. Faber & Faber. 1981 pp.208 with b/w. photographs. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw., with gentle sunning to spine.
The premise behind this book is that there is no need for any garden to be bare and dull at any time in the year. Here, Margery Fish describes, month by month, the plants she grows to make her garden interesting every day of the year.
£12.00 [ref: 64722]

Fish, Margery. Ground Cover Plants.
1st. Ed. Thus. Pub. Faber. 1980 pp.144 with b/w. photos 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
£4.50 [ref: 65772]

Flawn, L.N. Gardening with Cloches.
Pub. The Garden Book Club. [c.1965] pp.202 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback in thor. vg. dw.
£12.50 [ref: 61061]

Fleming, L. and Gore, A. The English Garden.
Pub. Spring Books. 1988 pp.255 with b/w. and colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in same dw.
£5.00 [ref: 40801]

Flowerdew, B. Bob Flowerdew’s Complete Book of Companion Gardening.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kyle Cathie. 1993 pp.176 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Bob Flowerdew’s book will help inspire you with ‘imaginative ideas, supplemented by a list of plants that are suitable for certain positions in the garden, or thrive together.’
£8.00 [ref: 64591]

Flowerdew, B. Organic Bible. Successful Gardening the Natural Way.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Kyle Cathie. 2000 pp.224 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Everything you need to know to create your own paradise of flowers, fruits and vegetables, thronging with wildlife and a joy to behold.
£8.50 [ref: 62020]

Forsyth, William. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described.
5th. Corr. Ed. Pub. Longman and Rees. 1810 pp.vvviii, 522 with portrait frontis., plus 13 copper engraved plates (11 being fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Tide mark to bottom half of frontis., title page and three plates; scattered spotting and some off-setting (to plates), o/w. contents fine. More recent full calf leather Cambridge panel binding with blind decoration and gilt lettering in fine condition.
£95.00 [ref: 63840]

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Fothergill, J. The Gardener’s Colour Book.
1st. Ed. Pub. Alfred A. Knopf. 1927 pp.40 with 2 separate calendars, one with some interesting handwritten notes for the month of July. 4to. Fine hardback in good to vg. dw. Scarce.
The author created this work to help himself work out colour schemes for his garden. Collates all ‘showy flowers’ in order of colour, height and period of blooming in table format. There is ample space for an owner to add their own records and selections.
£40.00 [ref: 65432]

Fox Wilson, G. & Becker, P. Horticultural Pests. Detection and Control.
3rd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Crosby Lockwood. 1960 pp.xix, 240 with colour and b/w. photos. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
The RHS Journal said of this work that ‘Here at last is a really authoritative book on the detection or recognition of garden pests by the symptoms of plant injury’.
£8.00 [ref: 60376]

Fox, H.M. André Le Nôtre. Garden Architect to Kings.
1st. Ed. Pub. B.T. Batsford. [1963] pp.176 with 3 col. plans and b/w. illus. throughout. Small 4to. Charming inscription, dated 1963, to half-title. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block. Nr. fine hardback in vg. plus. dw.
André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) was one of the greatest French landscape architects, his masterpiece being the gardens of Versailles. Le Nôtre’s other designs include the gardens of the Trianon, Saint-Cloud, and Chantilly and the parks of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Fontainebleau. His genius was in demand throughout the capitals of Europe. He visited London where he is believed to have been responsible for St. James’s Park.
£22.00 [ref: 71373]