FROM THE GROUND UP

A complete garden guide for New South Wales Gardeners

by LINDA, GRAHAM and SANDRA ROSS

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Large hardcover book with dustjacket and lots of full-colour photos throughout, 280 pages. Published 2010

Linda, Sandra and Graham Ross are passionate gardeners. From the Ground Up is the culmination of their lifetimes of gardening information that is passed from their family to yours; to help make you a more successful gardener. A love of gardening will change your life, add days to your life, and life to your days. This book will show you the way. Be inspired by the Ross Family pledge to grow their own food, become self sufficient in their own patch and to eat safe organic home grown produce.

For those new to gardening this book offers simple clear advice to get you started and keep you encouraged. For garden enthusiasts with lots of experience, there is information here to keep you updated with the latest organic methods of gardening, good for you and for our planet. You will find an encyclopedia of native and exotic plants to grow. Plus information on gardening techniques, propagating new plants, making compost, planting, pruning, watering, fertilising and garden design. There are lots of practical tips from the Ross' own garden on safe pest and disease control. Special interest plants include roses, orchids, bulbs and indoor plants.

Packed full of magnificent photographs, From the Ground Up will allow you to visually identify everything from the best plants for your garden to the pests and diseases causing your plants grief.

From The Ground Up will become the number one reference book for all New South Wales gardeners.

Chapters include:

• Climate
• Soil
• Water and watering
• Mulch
• Growing plants
• Pruning
• Design your garden
• The bush garden
• Exotics - trees, shrubs, perennials, strappy leaf plants, groundcovers, climbers, palms, conifers
• Roses
• In the vegie patch
• Annual flowers
• Bulbs
• The potted garden
• Lawn care
• Bug watch
• Weeds
• Calendar

About the authors

Graham Ross is a respected horticulturist, whose 45 year career has spanned teaching, television, radio and publishing. He has presented gardening shows on Australian television for 35 years, broadcast radio for 30 and managed his Garden Clinic company for 40 years. He loves his Sydney vegie patch of 28 years.

Sandra Ross is also a horticulturist, garden writer, teacher and broadcaster. As director of Ross Garden Tours she travels widely, searching out great gardens for garden itineraries around the globe. Her love of gardening infects all she does; her writing and her operation of the Garden Clinic Club. Sandra is a fervent rose and perennial grower.

Linda Ross is a widely travelled garden writer and broadcaster. Having studied landscape architecture and horticulture, she achieved the Young Achiever of the Year award from the Horticultural Media Association of Australia in 2007. She is particularly interested in organic vegetable gardening and teaches monthly kitchen gardening classes at Glenmore House in Camden. Linda loves her wildflower garden on NSW’s central coast.

A bit more about the From the Ground Up book series

The concept for From the Ground Up commenced in 2003, the idea was to develop complete and comprehensive garden guides, full of plant pictures specific to each state. Packed full of magnificent photographs, From the Ground Up will allow you to visually identify everything from the best plants for your garden to the pests and diseases causing your plants grief. Each book is a collaborative effort utilising the recommendations of many state specific plant experts, combined with the author's vast plant knowledge and experience. These books will become the ideal reference books for all Australian gardeners.

The South Australian edition was first released in 2008, authored by Sophie Thomson, and is now in its second print. Click here for more information

The Victorian edition was launched in Nov 2009 and is authored by Jane Edmanson. Click here for more information

The New South Wales edition was published in late 2010. Click here for more information

The Queensland and Western Australian editions will be coming soon.

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From the Ground Up: A Complete Garden Guide for NSW Gardeners by Sandra, Graham and Linda Ross