From Monty Don’s best-selling guide to gardening principles to peeking into the plots of the rich and famous, there’s much to enjoy:
The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries
Victoria Summerley and Hugo Rittson-Thomas
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The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25...
The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design
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'Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into...
Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season
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Cedric Pollet is the author / photographer of the acclaimed book Bark: An Intimate Look at the...
Head Gardeners
Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson
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What is Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? Ambra Edwards suggests it is the garden....
Beth Chatto's Shade Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest
Beth Chatto and Steven Wooster
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First published as Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden by Cassell in 2002, this Pimpernel Classic edition...
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Dec 7, 2017
From Monty Don’s best-selling guide to gardening principles to peeking into the plots of the rich and famous, there’s much to enjoy:
The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries
Victoria Summerley and Hugo Rittson-Thomas
Book
The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25...
The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design
Book
'Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into...
Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season
Book
Cedric Pollet is the author / photographer of the acclaimed book Bark: An Intimate Look at the...
Head Gardeners
Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson
Book
What is Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? Ambra Edwards suggests it is the garden....
Beth Chatto's Shade Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest
Beth Chatto and Steven Wooster
Book
First published as Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden by Cassell in 2002, this Pimpernel Classic edition...
and 3 other items
Robert Hamilton (1 KP) created a post
Dec 27, 2017
There are 6 chapters in this book, and each one is full of useful information. The chapters cover Getting Started, Designing & Planting your Containers, Caring for your Containers, Troubleshooting, Harvesting & Seasonal Considerations and More Container Concepts.
This book covers the basics, which include pot drainage, choosing the right soil and harvesting to name but a few. In the Troubleshooting chapter, the author has taken the time to explain the different garden pests and how to deal with them along with beneficial insects.
There are a number of projects that could be taken on, such as a Gutter Garden, a Beginner's Berry Garden and a Good Bug Wheel-Barrow Garden. Each project includes the tools you require along with lots of photographs showing you how to go about it.
This is a great book to get you started in container gardening, and just about anything that can hold soil can be used as a container .
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated Wreathing Havoc in Books
Sep 29, 2021 (Updated Sep 29, 2021)
Thanksgiving isn’t usually a setting for fall themed cozy mysteries, but I enjoyed seeing this book starting with November’s holiday, although we do get a few early Christmas activities as the book goes along. The mystery takes a little while to set down roots before it starts to fully grow, but once it does, we wind up with a wonderful mystery. I love how everything came together. Lilly and the rest of her friends in the Garden Squad are as delightful as always, and the new characters are equally likeable, making it hard for me to pick out the killer. Late autumn isn’t the best time for gardening, but we still get a bit of that and a few gardening tips over the course of the book. This is an entry that fans of the series will be thankful for.
Sassy Brit (97 KP) rated I Can Grow a Flower in Books
Jun 5, 2019
Sixteen bright board book pages reveal the life cycle of a sunflower, and the excitement of growing a plant from seed. It also has some fun gardening and small critter facts and has fun flaps that open up to reveal hiding creatures!
Winner of the silver award at the Junior Design Awards 2018 – Best Pre-Schooler Book 2-5 Years – this is certainly a book to recommend to parents for children of this age, because not only is it educational, it enables hands-on experience and fun quality time together. It’s a pretty book to gift, that’s also practical and intriguing.
Rachel (48 KP) rated Small Gods in Books
May 24, 2017
As with all of Pratchett's work it is a subtle blend of humour and humanity. It uses amazing characters and situations to highlight the hypocrisy and insanity of real life.
This book focuses on Brutha; a 'slow', ordinary monk for the God Om. It is the biggest, and most ruthless, religion in this part of the Discworld.
Brutha is gardening, as he always is (not much use for anything else) when a tortoise literally drops into his life and changes his world......
This book questions the hierarchy of religion, the wisdom of power, philosophy, the righteousness of war and whether a tortoise really does make good eating.