Gardening Books

The Lawn Expert
by D.G. Hessayon
Amazon Price: £5.09
Used Price: £0.01
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 4):
This publication has been around since 1997, though its dated layout and graphical design reflect its part in a series of books that have been around for decades. Evidently, the author sees no reason to change a successful formula. Well, "if it ain't broke, don't mend it", they say. The design of the book is pl...

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The Lawn Guide: The Easy Way to a Perfect Lawn
by Philip Sharples
Amazon Price: £7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
This book is easy to use, straightforward and a great gardening companion. Really recommended for 1st time lawn owners.

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Sports Turf and Amenity Grassland Management
by Stewart Brown
Amazon Price: £14.36
Used Price: £13.21
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Review (rating: 4):
As a keen gardener with a lawn I found this well written book filled a gap between very expensive reference texts and books such as "The Lawn Expert", although it is closer in quality to the reference. So although it has been written with turf specialists in mind it deserves to find a wider audience in the ge...

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Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Lawns Paths and Patios
by Alan Titchmarsh
Amazon Price: £4.64
Used Price: £2.10
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
This is a soft-bound, colourful book about lawns, paths and patios. It explains in simple language, and with plenty of photos, illustrations, tables and so on, how to do just about everything with all three. I bought it to get my little front and back gardens sorted out; for which it has been the perfect compan...

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Lawn Care Business Guide
by Patrick Cash
Amazon Price: £19.48
Used Price: £23.26
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
An absolute must read for anyone thats thinking of setting up their own lawn care business.Everything you need at your fingertips.From naming your business to marketing techniques, Patrick has covered it all. I've read many different business How to guides in the past and I have to say I haven't seen one so t...

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The Art of the Lawn: Mowing Patterns to Make Your Lawn a Work of Art
by David Parfitt
Amazon Price: £5.48
Used Price: £0.48
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
Bought this for my husband for this 39th birthday as his lawn obsession began. He loves it and is working his way up to carving "Elvis" on the lawn. So far we have had stripes, chequerboard, swirls and waves.
A great book for blokes who have everything as it is vaguely useful.

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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: £9.92
Used Price: £9.03
Average Customer Rating: 2.5
Review (rating: 1):
This is the first time I have returned a book to Amazon!

This book is only about lawns in the USA, given the different climate in the UK the type of grass we use etc is different. A US lawn is also to a very different scale then a UK lawn and they have a different view on what a lawn should be like.

The The ...

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Lawn Care for Dummies
by Lance Walheim
Used Price: £5.70
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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Lawn Care (Master Gardener's Guides)
by Robert Palin
Used Price: £0.01

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Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Sta...
by Eileen Figure Sandlin
Amazon Price: £11.84
Used Price: £3.93
Average Customer Rating: 2.0
Review (rating: 2):
About half of the chapters in this book read as if they have been lifted from a generic book on starting a small business in the USA.

The chapters that are on lawn care lack any real depth, talking more about the model of van rather than the choose of lawn care equipment.

The author seems to think of lawn ca...

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