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Whether you have a big garden or a small windowsill, you can still make the world a greener place. This book is an introduction to gardening. Whether you’re planting a seed in your garden or making a terrarium in a jar in your bedroom, the handbook encourages readers to put on their gardening gloves and explore the world around them. Readers will learn about how plants work, how to grow their own vegetables and the importance of protecting the natural world.
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£18.99
An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants-showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today
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£20.00
Actress Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek) shares the joys and rewards of gardening in her first book, Drawn to the Garden.
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£22.00
Sumptuous, beautiful and packed with easy-to-follow advice, this book offers advice on dramatic but easy-to-grow flowering plants. All the recommendations are perfect for pots, and will turn your garden into a sustainable paradise filled with butterflies, bees and birds. Arranged seasonally, it includes Arthur’s favourite flowers to plant throughout the year, plus lists of key garden tasks and advice on the best species for encouraging wildlife. As well as spectacular floral annuals, Arthur’s pot-friendly suggestions include herbs, figs and scented pelargoniums, as well as permanent planting ideas for cover and structure.
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£44.95
A richly illustrated survey celebrating humankind’s enduring relationship with the garden, explored throughout art, science, history, and culture
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£19.95
Journey across 40 incredible habitats around the world to discover the biggest, boldest, and stinkiest plants
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£9.99
Plants are pretty amazing. So sit back, and let expert scientist and CBeebies writer Emily Dodd tell you all about them. With bite-sized text, facts to make you say ‘wow’, and easy-to-understand explanations, big science topics are now just the right size for readers four years and over. Brilliantly illustrated by Chorkung, this is the perfect little book for readers who are just discovering all the incredible things in the world around them.
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Aimed at first-time gardeners, those in rented accommodation or anyone with limited outdoor space, this book teaches how to take stock of an environment and start a garden. With ideas for gardens, patio spaces, courtyards, balconies and interiors, these 50 easy-to-adopt ideas provide the steps to success for even the most inexperienced gardeners.
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£20.00
A plant a day brings beauty your way. Make the most of your garden with 365 of the very best plant varieties – one for every day of the year. From spring blooms to winter interest and everything in between, each plant has been personally selected by expert horticulturist Philip Clayton, who draws on his nearly 20 years of RHS experience, along with his own garden favourites, to showcase a vast array of planting choices.
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£20.00
Whether you love growing, love creating, or just want to liven up your outdoor space, a container garden is just the answer. So many of us nowadays are crammed into our homes and a garden is a luxury that few can afford. But there is always room for a bit of greenery; whether it’s herbs and spices to add fresh flavour to your food, or putting a jungle on your windowsill, a container can enable growers to bring nature to the most inhospitable and smallest spaces. Frances Tophill covers the sustainable, crafty and culinary aspects of container gardening. From urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets alongside what to grow inside them – bonsai to annuals, bulbs, grasses and bamboos, tumbling and creeping plants and flowers – there are also 40 ideas on how to pair plants and pots, including upcycling existing items and creating your own containers.
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£40.00
There are books that recognize famous garden designers and offer inspiration to would-be garden-makers. And there are thousands of manuals that will tell you how to garden. But only one tells the story of any garden’s most important ‘raw material’ – its ornamental plants. ‘Wild Edens’ is that book: global in scope and arranged geographically, it unveils ten biodiversity hotspots that are home to many of our garden treasures, such as Ixia dubia in the Western Cape and the Mediterranean’s Crocus biflorus.
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£22.00
Although excited by the prospect of moving into their own home for the first time, many people are mystified by the prospect of what to do with their outdoor space. Frances Tophill’s fuss-free, practical guide shows you how to create a space outside your own back door that’s designed by you, built by you and enjoyed by you.
