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The popular author and broadcaster Anne Swithinbank has written the definitive guide to conservatory plants and how to grow them based on her own extensive experience of growing plants under glass. The core of The Conservatory Gardener is a unique illustrated encyclopedic catalogue of more than 1,000 of the best conservatory plants. Selected for their attractiveness and usefulness, the plants are described in detail with full information about their cultivation. They are arranged according to use: for dramatic impact or as background, for seasonal interest or temporary display. Complete with authoritative practical advice on feeding and watering, ways of regulating light, temperature and humidity, and step-by-step propagation, the book contains everything the conservatory or indoor gardener needs to know to achieve success. The AuthorAnne Swithinbank is one of Britain's best-known gardeners, broadcasters and garden writers. Trained at Kew and formerly Glasshouse Supervisor at the RHS Garden at Wisley, she has presented many popular gardening programmes, including the Channel 4 series Bloom, Gardens of the Caribbean and BBC TV's Gardeners' World. She is a regular panellist on Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4. A prolific gardening correspondent for a number of national magazines and newspapers, she has also written several best-selling books, including A Handbook of Greenhouse and Conservatory Plants and The Gardeners' World Book of House Plants.
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The Conservatory Gardener,Anne Swithinbank,Deni Bown,Todtri Productions, Ltd.,1577171950,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Greenhouses,Ornamental Plants
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