RHS What Plant Where Encyclopedia

More than 3,000 brilliant ideas for what to plant in your garden, hand picked by RHS experts

Planning a garden has never been simpler with this guide to more than 3,000 perfect plants for every location, style, and scenario.

Matching the right plant to the right location is more than half the battle when it comes to gardening. Whether your site is stuck in shade or scorching in the sun, on a windy promontory or frost-prone hollow, this book has an almost inexhaustible array of planting suggestions so you can make the right choices for a thriving garden.

Choose the ideal plant for more than 65 different locations, style effects, and themes, from meadow-style planting and pollinator-friendly flowers, to plants for year-round interest and the most resilient choices for a changing climate.

Simple planting recipes show you how to create beautiful containers, beds, borders, and garden designs.

A Special Effects section helps you find plants with fragrant, colourful, or architectural properties and offers solutions to common problems, such as weed-suppressing ground cover.

With RHS What Plant Where Encyclopedia you’ll be inspired to discover thrilling new plants and feel reassured that they’ll have the best chance to bloom.

Author Biography

The Royal Horticultural Society is the world’s premier gardening authority. The RHS is a charitable organisation that owns inspirational gardens, holds seasonal plant shows and events, including the famous Chelsea Flower Show, and offers horticultural advice to professionals and amateurs alike. Experts at RHS gardens test hundreds of plants for garden use and try out a range of horticultural techniques so that gardeners can be assured of the best and most up-to-date information.