basic gardening book suggestions?

[sunshine185]

hi, dh and i for the first time have a garden (huge one at that) and have no idea what is what...

can anyone suggest a good all rounder for beginners covers everything book from lawns to weeds to flowers and veggies and has lots of lovely big pictures???

i am looking at the gardening for dummies book on ebay but not sure if there is a better one out there?!

thansk!

[Uriel]

Check out the gardening section at your local library and look before you buy - I can't stand some well-known gardening writers and wouldn't have liked to buy their books.

For simplicity, I like the 'Expert' range of books by Dr D G Hessayon.

[liath]

I got "Learn to Garden" from the RHS when we moved here as it was our first garden and I was a total novice. Alan Titchmarsh's The Gradener's Year was useful too.

[GentleOtter]

My 'bible' is The Encyclopedia of Gardening by the RHS. It has all you need.

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

Also Gardening through the yera, either Dorian Kindersley or RHS, sorry can't remember, month by month what to do in garedn, and when to plant things.

[WowOoo]

Yes RHS, think I got mine from Waterstones years ago and it's still well used!

Look online too. BBC gardening is fab for things like looking at an imaginary layout of garden, a virtual garden I mean. Great fun!!