This practical book will teach you how to invite butterflies, frogs and birds into your garden without turning your garden wild. Showing you how to fit in wildlife gardening alongside everything else you want from your space, there are sections that explore creating new habitats as well as a catalogue of over 300 of the very best garden flowers, shrubs and trees for wildlife.
This updated edition contains new chapters on “baby” vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the many medicinal plants growing in riverbanks, woodlands and gardens, all of which can be gathered for free. With straight-forward advice on creating home remedies to treat over 100 common ailments from asthma to insomnia as well as an easy-to-use identification guide, this book will help you create your own natural first aid kit.
Written by the RHS’s foremost fruit and vegetable experts, this brand new book provides lifestyle changing advice that gardeners need for growing a year-round supply of healthy edible crops for their table. From planning to harvesting, and with clear instructions for every step in between, this book shows you how to apply age-old techniques in a timely fashion to get the most from your plot.
Gardeners’ World’s resourceful Alys Fowler takes us one step closer to self-sufficiency, showing us how to serve a feast with ingredients grown in a suburban back garden. Marrying the delights of growing your own food with the joy of a flower garden, this talented gardener shows us how achieving one needn’t be at the expense of the other.
Whether you’re a seasoned grower or an absolute beginner, Lia Leendertz’s engaging answers to readers’ questions will help and inspire you. From ridding yourself of Spanish bluebells and sourcing climbers which cover your neighbours’ unsightly fence, to encouraging bees and the right kind of bugs, week by week and season by season, Gardening SOS answers every gardening question you can think of… and quite a few more besides.
All gardeners are driven to create a landscape that is their vision of perfection - whether that be a structured space complete with immaculate rose beds, or a simple, inviting space for unwinding or entertaining. But just how do you go about turning that vision into reality? Matthew Wilson demystifies garden design and shows how you can bring incredible landscape projects to your garden at home.
This inspirational sourcebook identifies the most attractive, practical and portable ideas from hundreds of gardens exhibited over the last five years at Chelsea and analyses how these ideas might work in any garden. With interviews with gold medal-winning designers and thoughtful interpretation of each individual style, this book is both practical and inspirational.
Tackle practical ideas for gardens large and small - from planting pots of vegetables on a patio, to making a border for year round colour - by following the expert advice from the RHS. Here, you’ll find all the detailed guidance and quick tips you’ll need - including materials, plants, location and timing - to ensure you get great results every time.
The lovely James Wong is back, putting his expertise to use once again showing you and your family how to have a fantastically healthy year with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies. From hormone replacement to nappy rash, leg-waxing to sore throats, these new remedies will help soothe all manner of common conditions and beauty problems.