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The Garden Almanac 2027
'A gardening book you shouldn't be without' - The Independent The world's leading authority on gardening, the Royal Horticultural Society, bring you their essential seasonal guide to growing, harvesting and grounding yourself in nature for 2027. The must-have almanac from the renowned Royal Horticultural Society is back for its fourth year. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour, it includes artworks by Grace Gillespie, photographs and advice from RHS experts. This glorious month-by-month guide is packed full of ideas and projects to set you up for the year ahead. There is all-new advice on what to grow, wildlife to watch out for and how to get the most from your garden. In this edition, discover: Seasonal ideas for a more sustainable garden. RHS Head Gardeners' plants of the month. Plants, pollinators and challenges tailored to every time of year. Cake and dessert recipes from Holly Farrell. Time-saving tips. . . . and much more! Packed with information, this is the essential handbook for gardeners, guiding them through key tasks, plants for each month and unique projects. It also includes lighter, entertaining content to inspire gardeners all through the year. This is an invaluable guide for every gardener, every year.
£14.99
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The Little Book of Advice for Fruit & Veg Gardeners
To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. - Alfred AustinIn the multifaceted world of gardening, the same questions arise time and time again: how do I sow my own vegetables? When and how should I plant my garden to get the best fruits?The Little Book of Advice for Fruit & Veg Gardeners will guide you with time-honoured, practical advice, whether you're planting gardens that you hope will explode with seasonal harvest year after year, or taking your first steps developing the green fingers that will allow you to grow your own produce. Packed full of tips and easy to follow advice that will help gardeners enhance their skills, develop new ones and answer questions such as, what sort of soil is best for your garden, how to select the right fruit or vegetables for your space, and most importantly, how to nurture, care for and grow your garden or allotment year after year.Highlights include:- Spring: 'What is subsoil?' 'How can I improve a heavy clay soil?' 'What does tilth mean?'- Summer: 'When should I stop cutting asparagus?' 'Can I grow runner beans in a container?' 'Why do I never get tight Brussels sprouts?'- Autumn: 'What are cocoa shells used for?' 'When should I apply fish meal to my vegetable garden?' 'Can I propagate from my raspberry plants?'- Winter: 'What is a runner bean trench?' 'What can I use my cold frame for in winter?' 'Are there any vegetables I can sow now?'Also available: The Little Book of Advice for Flower Gardeners
£8.99
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The Garden Through Time
Step into a Persian paradise, wander through a Mughal masterpiece or lose yourself in Monet's blooming haven at Giverny. The Garden Through Time brings 45 extraordinary gardens to life in a beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries. From peaceful medieval cloisters to imaginative modern spaces like New York's High Line, each garden offers inspiration and ideas you can adapt at home, whether you have a sprawling garden or just a few pots on a balcony. With evocative illustration and practical tips inspired by each garden, this book invites you to bring the beauty of the past into your own green space.
£25.00
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Brilliant and Wild
From back-of-an-envelope list to flower-filled paradise - Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year gives even the most inexperienced gardener the chance to create a beautiful and wildlife-friendly outdoor space - from nothing - in just twelve months. Award-winning photographer, Jason Ingram, followed the author over the course of a year, as she created the garden shown in the book for her sister. This highly practical book provides new gardeners with step-by-step instructions on how to create a low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly perennial garden that will bloom within months and be fully established within a year.
£20.00
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Happy Plants
Happy Plants will tell you everything you need to know about how to boost your mood with the happiest house plants, herbs, flowers and fronds. It has long been known that immersing ourselves in the natural world makes us happy. But what are the happiest plants? How do you make the most of their joy-bringing properties like scent, taste and colour? And how do you bring this positive plant power into your life? Happy Plants features 100 planty reasons to be cheerful, with engaging and authoritative text and gorgeously colourful images from leading gardening charity the Royal Horticultural Society. From cut flowers and containers to forests and fields, each entry will describe how plants can fight sadness, induce calm and otherwise brighten your day - and how you can make these accessible species happy, too.
£14.99
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British Gardens
What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening traditions. Here, he finally brings his focus to home, journeying from the northern tip of Scotland to the Cornish coast, seeking to understand what our gardens tell us about ourselves as a nation. Encompassing historical gardens and public parks, mountains and seascapes, urban gardens and rural nurseries, glasshouses and community plots, each encounter is another link in a larger story of British identity: marks of ingenuity, eccentricity, and adaptation to changing environments.
£35.00
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Get Growing
Get Growing is a complete guide to finding joy in the natural world from social media sensation JoesGarden.
£10.99
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My Gardening Life
Well-known and loved as a cookery writer and presenter, this is Mary Berry's deeply personal account of the second great love of her life, gardening. She shares her love of growing plants, visiting gardens, and getting hands-on in her own plot.
£25.00
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How to Grow Food
Gardener Huw Richards and chef Sam Cooper bridge the gap between the garden and kitchen, profiling the growing and cooking of 70 crops. In this super practical companion for all kitchen gardeners, each crop has no-nonsense growing information on spacing, sowing, and harvesting accompanied by delicious and simple recipes for food made well. Whether you've got containers on a balcony or acres of land, knowing how many plants can grow per square metre and the expected yield means you can easily work out how much food you can grow in your space. There are also suggestions for the best varieties to grow for resilience and flavour. Recipes are easily adapted depending on how much you harvest and range from dishes to tuck into right away, such as a root vegetable tartiflette, to preserves to enjoy later, like a tomato sauce to add to pastas and stews.
£18.99
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Diary of a Keen Gardener
Over her long career, Mary Keen has created some of the finest gardens in England. But rather than tell the story of those paradises, this is the diary about everyday watchfulness in the places Mary loves best - her own back garden and allotment nearby. Beginning at the lowest ebb of the grower's year - when November leaves are falling and flowers in retreat - Mary shows us how one's perspective of time changes in the pleasure of nurturing plants. Time can slide to a standstill as you stop to stare at a flower, or flash to the past when another triggers a memory. As the diary records the ordinary, the ephemeral and the horticulturally useful, in a patchwork of life and tasks, we also witness the little dramas in the village where she lives and meet her family and friends who are an integral part of her gardening community.
£20.00
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50 Ways to Kill a Slug
Are you being bullied by a mollusc that slimes all over your garden and munches through your favourite delphinium? Take a stand against slugs with 50 alternative, organic, natural, chemical and humane solutions to slug problems.
£7.99
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A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners
How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings? These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of botanical Latin. Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening.
£12.99
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Gardens of the Future
The book will respond to a range of themes from our exhibition by commissioning twelve international designers to create an original plan for a 'Garden of the Future'. Each designer will take on a different garden type, addressing questions such as materials and sustainability, climate challenges and changing needs, in both private and public spaces. These specially commissioned garden plans will comprise 3-4 conceptual illustrations showing different perspectives, with a planting scheme or concept and 1000-word description of the ideas, trends and research that have influenced it. Additional photographs and sketches that have inspired the design, as well as informative contextual shots of designers 'earlier work will also feature and support the piece.
£30.00
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Drawn to the garden
Actress Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek) shares the joys and rewards of gardening in her first book, Drawn to the Garden.
£20.00
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The garden against time
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
£10.99
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Colour in the Garden
When you add colour to a garden it instantly creates atmosphere. While most of us know which colours we like, and maybe even which colours we want in our garden, knowing which plants will achieve this can be more difficult. Gardening writer Lucy Bellamy and photographer Jason Ingram offer a deep dive into a modern approach to colour, exploring how to choose plants and use them creatively and inventively. With inspirational planting schemes and plant lists, advice on colour in containers, tiny back gardens and compact front gardens, this book will change the way you approach your outdoor space.
£25.00
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My family and other seedlings
A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film-maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there, as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq. After the move, she decided to rent an allotment, and this is a heart-warming, wry and at times, tearful account of Lally's travails as a mother and novice allotment holder, counterpointing horticultural progress with the perils of parenting. Along the way she reflects on the drudgery of English rural domesticity after a professional life chasing war and adventure, the history of the allotment since Saxon times, and the wonderful moment when gardening becomes fun rather than just feeding a family.
£10.99
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The accidental garden
We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with their own lives to lead. The conflict between these two power bases, Richard Mabey suggests, is a microcosm of what is happening in the larger world. In this provocative book, rooted in the daily dramas of his own Norfolk garden, Mabey offers a different scenario, where nature becomes an equal partner, a 'gardener' itself. Against a background of disordered seasons he watches his 'accidental' garden reorganising itself.
£10.99
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The seed detective
In 'The Seed Detective', Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday vegetable heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the life of the hunter-gatherer to become farmers, he tells tales of globalisation, political intrigue, colonisation and serendipity - describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.
£12.99
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Hortobiography
Carol Klein is one of Britain's best loved horticulturists, and for decades gardening has been at the heart of her extraordinary life. From her childhood adventures in Manchester to her first experiments in plantswomanship at Glebe Cottage, and from training as an artist and a teacher, and then finding an entirely unexpected career as one of Britain's most beloved television presenters, in this long-awaited memoir Carol tells the story of the people, places and plants that have shaped her life. Exploring why our relationship with the natural world is so important, and how it brings joy, creativity and good health to our lives, Carol also offers irresistible insights on her favourite flowers and plants, and how to help them flourish. A story of a life lived happily amongst the greenery, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has sought solace in the natural world.
£12.99
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The greenhouse book
Thinking of buying a greenhouse but aren't sure what to grow in it, or how? Or maybe you've inherited a garden with a greenhouse, but haven't got a clue what to do with it? Whatever your journey to growing under glass, this book gives a clear, inspiring, and illustrated approach to all things greenhouse. A protected growing environment provides shelter and warmth to a broad range of tender plants, both edible and ornamental, and can open up a fascinating new world of gardening. From initial planning considerations and ongoing maintenance, to all the exciting and unusual plants that can be grown; from overwintering exotics, to hardening off seedlings and protecting summer crops against pests and diseases, there is a wealth of information to be shared.
£20.00
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The flower thesaurus
A beautiful compendium of creative flower combinations, 'The Flower Thesaurus' is your one-stop source of planting ideas and inspiration. Chapter by chapter, you'll find a collection of colourful plant choices that are suitable wherever you garden, and whatever the size of your outdoor space.
£26.00
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The accidental seed heroes
Across the world, chefs, farmers, plant scientists and backyard growers are doing something extraordinary: creating new generations of fruit, vegetables and cereals, all bred specifically to flourish locally, taste delicious, and contribute to our food future. Adam Alexander dons his seed detective homburg to meet these 21st century seed heroes, who are not only championing traditional varieties but also breeding delicious new ones that will help create a sustainable future for our planet. We don't all need to become backyard breeders or even, like Adam, accidental ones. We don't even need to eschew, as growers, the modern hybrid cultivars our seed catalogues are stuffed with or, as consumers, boycott those same uninspiring specimens that populate our supermarket shelves. Adam just wants that choice to be better informed and infinitely more diverse and enjoyable.
£20.00
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How herbs healed the world
Herbs are wonderful things. Without them so much would not be possible. With the advance of science over the last two hundred years these once mystical plants have changed and saved countless lives, vastly improving our standard of living while providing us all with a much richer, healthier diet. Today, we take for granted a world full of life-saving drugs, luxury cosmetics and exotic foods. This book will tell this story. Seventy-five herbs have been carefully chosen to tell the story of how they have each changed our world, looking back at their origins and what was once believed, while comparing this with the modern day uses and the scientific value of these plants enabling the reader to understand and appreciate their importance.
£22.00
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