Toby Buckland is the main presenter of BBC2’s Gardeners’ World. In this fully revised title, he offers a beginner’s guide to planting and caring for 50 of his favourite garden plants. Ideal for anyone who wants to introduce colour and seasonality to their garden, this accessible and practical book will make a very welcome gift for any keen amateur.
The companion volume to the hugely popular Grow Your Own Veg, Carol Klein - with her usual advice for growing all your favourite fruits plus less familiar ones such as lemons, figs, mulberries and cranberries. Her approach is environmentally friendly and easy, giving you all the help and confidence you need to succeed.
Bob Flowerdew is a leading authority on organic gardening. With his vast experience, he takes you through essential gardening skills and the common pitfalls and shows you how to help your garden to fix itself with natural solutions like bird boxes and companion planting. Approachable, practical and a pleasure to read, this is a must for all modern gardeners.
Plants not only produce the oxygen that makes life possible, they add precious moisture and filter toxins too. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office and this guide not only shows you how to grow and nurture 50 different houseplants but rates each for it’s effectivness with different pollutants, ease of growth and maintenance.
Carol Klein has collaborated with the Royal Horticultural Society to create this lavishly illustrated, easy-to-follow, practical and inspiring beginner’s handbook about everything anyone ever needs to know to grow vegetables, salads and herbs all year round, whatever the size of your garden. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book to which veg growers can return every year, whatever their level of expertise.
The Gardener’s Pocket Companion is an attractive, handy pocket book containing a treasure trove of gardening facts, curiosities, notes and quotes. Packed with useful and fascinating information, this will let you into many secrets, including how Joseph Paxton, designer of Crystal Palace and landscape gardener extraordinaire, rose from poverty to become a multi-millionaire, where London’s hidden gardens are located, which tree provided sixteenth-century Europeans with a cure for venereal disease, how to perform the soil fist test to determine soil type, and what Nelson Mandela grew in his prison garden.
This brand new volume from the experts at the Royal Horticultural Society is the definitive guide to all the essential techniques you are ever likely to need in the garden. Reflecting modern best-practice at the RHS, the techniques are shown clearly, with the help of 200 colour illustrations and step-by-step instructions suitable for all gardeners, both professional and amateur alike.
In a unique partnership, Sir Terence Conran and high-profile garden designer Diarmuid Gavin have collaborated to create Outdoors, a book that brings the principles of high quality, imaginative and innovative garden design to every garden owner. Inspiring, thoughtful and immensely practical, this stunning book reflects the tastes, talents and experience of the authors and offers a unique insight into the design process.
A must-have for any gardener, this major new edition of an essential guide allows you to choose the plants that you want for your garden from over 8,000 easy-to-find entries and thousands of photographs. With special sections on how to use colour and depth features on the most popular plants, this hugely practical book is perfect for everyone from the complete novice to the gardening guru.
This delightful and practical guide comes to you from Country Living and the National Trust and explores everything you need to know about henkeeping. The essential advice covers basic care and equipment and common problems you might encounter as well as offering a full directory plus beautiful colour illustrations of some of the most popular breeds.