Gardening Books

The Lawn Expert
by D.G. Hessayon
Amazon Price: £4.59
Used Price: £0.01
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
Any bit of ground can grow grass and add to life. This book shows how to do it.
For those with lifeless lawns, where bald patches and discolouration have appeared without warning; for those with worn-out patches and overused paths; those with areas where nothing grows except mushrooms and litter: here is the an...

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The Lawn Guide: The Easy Way to a Perfect Lawn
by Philip Sharples
Amazon Price: £5.34
Used Price: £2.97
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
A good comprehensive book which helps you to try and get that "perfect" lawn! Tony Riley

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How to Start Your Own Gardening Business: An Insider Guide to Setting Yoursel...
by Paul Power
Amazon Price: £11.49
Used Price: £39.35
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
This book is packed with excellent advice both from a business perspective and a horticultural one. Particularly useful is the monthly "What can you offer your clients?" chapter. Helps you to think beyond the obvious lawn care and weeding of borders to help you to offer a complete garden service. If you're ...

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The Art of the Lawn: Mowing Patterns to Make Your Lawn a Work of Art
by David Parfitt
Amazon Price: £6.49
Used Price: £2.23

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The Lawn Bible: How to Keep It Green, Groomed, and Growing Every Season of th...
by David R. Mellor
Amazon Price: £9.90
Used Price: £8.16
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Review (rating: 1):
This book is American, and as such is full of Americanisms, right down to referring to turf as sod. Helpful hints include the suggestion that if Sunday morning is the only time you can cut your grass then you should bake cinammon rolls to appease the neighbours. (Where did I put that vomit bag?)

I didn't like ...

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Lawn Care for Dummies
by Lance Walheim
Used Price: £1.51
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Review (rating: 4):
This book is an excellent reference on everything you would want to know on how to start, repair or maintain a lawn, but it doesn't answer some really, really basic questions, like "What kind of grass do I have?" The photos are just fluff, and could have been better used to identify grass types, weeds or lawn problems.

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Practical landscaping & lawn care
by David A Webb
Used Price: £17.92

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Start and Run a Landscaping Business (Start & Run ...)
by Joel LaRusic
Amazon Price: £13.49
Used Price: £10.82
Average Customer Rating: 2.0
Review (rating: 2):
Purchased for the reason stated in the title, however upon receiving find written for American / Canadian market with reference to their regulations, not much relevence to someone in the UK trying to start out in business by themselves

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The Everything Lawn Care Book: From Seed to Soil (The everything series)
by Douglas Green
Used Price: £5.96

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Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Sta...
by Entrepreneur Press
Amazon Price: £11.02
Used Price: £6.02

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