Bentley, M. Growing Plants Without Soil. (Vermiculaponics).
1st. South African Ed. Pub. Hydro-Chemical Industries Ltd. 1955 pp.212 with over 200 colour and b/w. photos. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in good plus dw. with a little loss to extremities.
‘The author, after years of experimenting with a new growing medium has evolved a simple system which all can follow. The medium used is Vermiculite and with this mineral and closely following the directions explicitly detailed in this book you will achieve results which will astonish and delight you.’
£15.00 [ref: 64589]

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Biggs, M. et al. Gardener’s Question Time Plant Chooser.
Pub. BBC. 2003 pp.416 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in sl. torn dw.
£8.00 [ref: 40786]

Billington, Jill. Colour Your Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. The RHS. 2004 pp.192 profusely illustrated with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
Helps gardeners understand all aspects of colour in the garden including suggested plants and associations that can evoke a variety of moods and atmospheres.
£5.00 [ref: 49994]

Bird, R. Cassell’s Directory of Climbers and Wall Shrubs. Everything you need to create a garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 2000 pp.112 with colour photos and illus., throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
An instant reference to more than 250 plants.
£5.00 [ref: 46995]

Bisgrove, R. William Robinson. The Wild Gardener.
1st. Ed. Pub. Frances Lincoln. 2008 pp.256 with colour and b/w. photos and illus. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Highly recommended. Despite his enormous literary output and position at the centre of a circle of distinguished horticulturists, William Robinson is a surprisingly enigmatic figure. Generous to friends and retainers but ferocious in his attacks on opponents, a populariser rather than a pioneer, he was undoubtedly one of the greatest figures in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century gardening.
£75.00 [ref: 64261]

Bloom, Alan. A Plantsman’s Perspective. Plants, people and places.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1987 pp.154. Large 8vo. With ‘Good wishes, Alan Bloom’ to ffep. Fine hardback in fine dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
Alan Bloom’s book describes a lifetime devoted to plants and gardening. Alan was the founder of Blooms of Bressingham and creator of the famous Bressingham Gardens.
£15.00 [ref: 64384]

Bloom, Alan. Mistress of Melthorpe.
1st. Ed. Pub. Aidan Ellis. 1996 pp.152. 8vo. With ‘Good wishes, Alan Bloom’ to ffep. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
‘Throughout his life, Alan Bloom has had the opportunity to work among people and study them. Mistress of Melthorpe is a gentle observation of how people live and love, and will appeal to all gardeners and lovers of romance.’
£10.00 [ref: 64385]

Bowe, P. & Dehart, M.D. Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Getty Publications. 2011 pp.159 with superb colour photos. throughout. 8vo. A fine softback.
An examination of the five villa gardens J. Paul Getty commissioned in California, looking at the ancient Roman garden design which inspired them, and the plants used to create them.
£10.00 [ref: 55103]

Bowles, E.A. A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners.
Rev. Ed. Pub. The Bodley Head. 1955 pp.222 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Errata slip attached to half-title. Some light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw.
E.A. Bowles thoroughly revised edition of this classic work, which is based on his fifty years of experience of cultivating and studying these beautiful flowers.
£15.00 [ref: 67724]

Bowles, E.A. A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners. with a chapter on changes of nomenclature by B.L. Burtt.
Pub. Waterstone & Co. 1985 pp.222 with col. & b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A classic work, based on the author’s fifty years of experience of cultivating and studying these beautiful flowers.
£19.50 [ref: 71045]