The essential guide to successful indoor gardening including everything you will need to know about identifying, buying and growing houseplants. With over 600 photographs, The Practical Encyclopedia of Houseplants also provides instructions on division, layering, cutting techniques, maintenance and choosing the right plants for your home.
Basic Gardening features step-by-step guidelines to every aspect of garden care. It covers all the basics, taking nothing for granted, in addition to lots of information on areas of topical interest, such as how to save water during a drought period and how to compost. With straightforward guidelines for growing your own fruit and vegetables, Basic Gardening shows you how to turn a patch of muddy ground into an easily maintainable garden, whatever the size of your plot and however busy you are. From lawn care and watering to creating patios and growing vegetables, it is packed with easy-to-follow, practical advice.
Details: You can pour your heart and soul into creating a beautiful garden for recreation and relaxation, only to have it ruined by a legion of bugs, weeds, diseases and mould. Using this handy compact guide from the team at Britain's best-selling gardening magazine, you can finally fight back - from initial prevention and protection for your plants and lawn, to spotting the early warning signs and knowing how best to act to save your garden from decay. Using easy step-by-step guides and helpful tips from the experts at Gardeners' World, you can identify advanced problems and recognize the beginnings of a rot, and can learn the most efficient and eco-friendly ways of dealing with many of the issues that can plague a seemingly healthy plot. From coping with insect invasions and persistent weeds to halting widespread viruses and nurturing sickly plants, Gardeners' World: Pests and Diseases can help you to identify and understand problems, and give you the upper hand in the battle to protect your garden. Ideal for: Gardeners looking for help on removing pests and preventing diseases. This paperback has 213 pages and measures 15.5cm x 13.5cm x 1.3cm
Get Started with Your Allotment is written by the UK's leading Allotment Society and designed specifically for all those new to allotments. It will take you step-by-step through the joys of allotment gardening, right from the very first stages of finding an allotment through to keeping livestock. It is designed for both beginners and those with some experience, and has plenty of information for those who wish to involve their children and family members in their new pursuit. With a complete guide to the tools needed, the ideal crops to grow, the soil conditions, troubleshooting and plenty of legal advice, it is the most complete guide available from the country's most experienced and trusted source of allotment wisdom.
Details: The essential guide for anyone with a small space or no decent land on which to grow plants; for those who want something more manageable and easy to reach; for those who see the potential for the exciting visual effects of varied pots and containers - the benefits are endless. This great new guide will show you how to choose what types of containers to use; how to grow annuals, perennials, indoor plants, speciality plants, and even fruit and vegetables; and how to maintain your beautiful container garden. Ideal for: A perfect book for designers and gardening fans. This paperback book has 256 pages and measures: 16 x 17 x 1.7cm.
This practical and inspirational handbook is aimed at the new generation of gardeners who want to enjoy the taste and health benefits of growing their own food, but who have little time to spare. Expert advice and innovative techniques show you how to grow the right quantities of the fruit and vegetables you love, and enjoy the satisfactions of tending an allotment or vegetable garden without becoming a slave to your plot. Tested by fruit-grower Will Sibley and author Lia Leendertz on their own allotments, these methods will enable you to get the best results in half an hour per day, or even less. The book covers all aspects of allotmenteering and vegetable gardening, including the practicalities of obtaining and maintaining a site, choosing what to grow, designing the plot and advanced projects such as building paths and shelters. A section on harvesting, storing and cooking shows you what to do when your crop is ripe and ready.
Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry is a quickly accessible but authoritative guide, suitable for total beginners, that provides all the information you need to start keeping your own chickens. Telling you which breed of bird lays best and providing useful guidance on housing, equipment and the necessities of day-to-day care, it meets all the needs of anyone who dreams of a garden full of happy, clucking birds. It also goes beyond just chickens to other types of poultry, and gives advice and practical guidelines on housing, with full explanation of key areas like welfare, behaviour and diet.
This practical guide will teach you all you nee to know about cultivating cacti and other succulents. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with individual plant advice and general tips and information, this is the ideal guide for complete beginners and the more experienced growers.
Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg: Teach Yourself will guarantee success for anyone wishing to grow fresh produce in any patch of earth, be it garden, allotment or series of containers. This book gives specific instructions on when, where and how to grow and maintain various fruit and vegetables, from the more basic to the exotic, without the use of chemicals. It includes an A-Z list of plants together with ease of growth ratings and an approach that welcomes involvement from the whole family. Whatever your plans for home-grown fruit and vegetables this is the essential guide.
After a brief introduction to planning and planting a border, this volume presents a substantial A-Z of suitable plants, including annuals, biennial and perennials, bulbs and shrubs. Each plant is described, with particular emphasis on its potential contribution to a border, and illustrated with colour photographs. Plus an index of Latin and common names.
Fresh produce are a joy: crunchy lettuce, sun-warmed tomatoes, juicy berries - their flavours are immediate - but a winter of those summer flavours preserved, now that's a feeling of satisfaction. If you are going to truly try and attain a little more self-sufficiency (and save some money at the same time), think about what you can store to get you through the leaner months. Alys takes you through all the different ways of preserving - bottling, drying, fermenting, freezing, pickling, using sugar - with delicious recipes that make the most of your produce. This book is a must for anyone that wants to store and preserve their garden bounty.
Details: Like the idea of the self-sufficient good life? 'Grow Your Own Vegetables' presents an informative and user-friendly guide to realising your garden's potential. Opening with the persuasive case for growing your own vegetables - from reducing your carbon footprint to improving your health and bank balance - the book goes on to present concise instructions on how to cultivate a successful and satisfying vegetable garden, ending with a comprehensive directory of vegetables, including how and when to grow and harvest, storage advice and serving suggestions. Ideal for: An indispensable guide perfect for those looking to grow their own vegetables. This paperback book has 256 pages and measures: 16 x 17 x 1.7cm.
New, updated, edition of this invaluable practical planner for growing plants both in the garden and the home, from Roy Lancaster Whether you are looking for a towering tree to mature in your garden, or a geranium to flourish on your kitchen window-sill, make sure you pick the perfect plant with this invaluable practical planner from gardening guru, Roy Lancaster. Plan your planting using Roy's personal plant selections for a comprehensive range of sites, conditions and design schemes. Over 1, 800 sumptuous colour photographs help to illustrate plant recommendations. With plant suggestions for all indoor and outdoor environments and practical ideas for problem situations - as well as expert advice on all aspects of caring for your plants - you'll be able to ensure your garden and home blooms all year round.
Elspeth Thompson offers a wealth of inspiring ideas, together with detailed practical instructions, for gardening in the city ? in window boxes, on balconies and roof terraces, in allotments and community gardens ? or how about a bit of guerrilla gardening? She then takes the reader on a tour of London gardens, from Mayfair to Canary Wharf. A helpful directory of nurseries, garden centers, shops and markets completes the book. The essential book for every city gardener.
Building on the success of Nature Detectives Handbook, this garden handbook is the ultimate wildlife identification guide. To begin with the reader explores the garden through the changing seasons, and is encouraged to do fun activities that also benefit the environment, such as making a bird table. One hundred different species are included trees, flowers, birds, bugs, amphibians and mammals. Each factfile not only gives important identification tips with a wealth of detailed artwork and a photo file, but also vital stats, including when, where, size, colour and young. Children are encouraged to take photos, make notes and fill in the interactive bar.
Whether you're a complete beginner or a keen gardener, there are always times when it helps to have a reliable expert at your side. In The Complete How to be a Gardener, Alan Titchmarsh draws on his extensive knowledge and experience to give you a comprehensive guide to becoming a successful gardener. Alan starts with the fundamentals, covering the absolute essentials that every gardener needs to know, including information on how plants work and what they need to survive, as well as where to begin if you're a first-time gardener. Each chapter includes practical advice and step-by-step techniques and projects, as well as information on garden maintenance and a host of Alan's favourite plants to help you in your selection. With its perfect balance of down-to-earth information and inspirational garden ideas, this complete paperback edition of How to be a Gardener gets to the very heart of gardening and provides a comprehensive reference manual for any garden owner.
Alys Fowler takes a fresh look at foraging, encouraging you to look closer to home, from the weeds in your garden to the trees in your street, rather than the fields and hedgerows of the countryside. Alys showcases her favourite edibles with a plant directory packed with useful information - photographic identification, plant description and tips on how to grow and how to eat it (including recipes) - that will give you the confidence to identify plants yourself. The book also features innovative ideas for eating your local landscape, from community gardens in Todmorden, UK to Edimental (edible ornamentals) gardens in Norway - this is a fast-growing, global phenomenon that is fun, environmentally friendly and thrifty.
The complete encyclopedia of trees and shrubs is a useful work of reference for both the identification of trees but also has great advice on the best trees and bushes to plant in your own garden. It has hundreds of beautiful colour photos and handy tips on cultivation.
For tasty, delicious fruit and veg that hasn't travelled halfway around the world, you can't beat home-grown produce from your own allotment or vegetable patch. This folder-style book will help you ensure your plot provides fresh, healthy food all year round. Follow month-by-month, easy-to-follow advice on what to do on your allotment and how to do it. Pick up time saving tips and techniques on everything from pruning to dealing with pests. There's clear guidance on when to sow, plant, and harvest for excellent results. Get more from your allotment with this indispensable companion.
From the RHS comes this compendium of poetry about gardens and garden plants, themes that have provided inspiration for poets since the dawn of time. The poems span many centuries and include the work of such great writers as Wordsworth, Spenser and Shakespeare.
Thoughtful Gardening is Robin Lane Fox's first gardening book in twenty-five years, and marks the fortieth year of his weekly columns on gardening for the Financial Times. It is based on his own selection from these widely admired pieces, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to take readers on a highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. It draws on his lifetime of practical gardening, including his years as Garden Master of New College, Oxford, and contains many memories of fellow gardeners, from Christopher Lloyd to Nancy Lancaster. The book is essential reading for anyone setting out on a new garden or taking stock of one. It takes a critical look at fashions of the moment and is full of advice, ranging from problems with badgers to how to take root-cuttings or choose flowering trees, as well as examples of gardens at home and abroad which Robin Lane Fox has visited over many years. Thoughtful Gardening combines a principled view of the craft of gardening with dozens of new ideas for planting and visiting, and touching reminders of the power of literature and art to deepen what we see and realize in gardens of our own.
This wonderful collection brings together three superb volumes featuring our favourite birds. Each programme offers expert advice and top tips on identification, behaviour and more as you enjoy an amazing insight into the world of birds and how they live. From town to woodland, field to wetland and mountain to coast, this is a fascinating study, featuring best-known birds including Starling, Nightingale, Barn Owl, Kingfisher, Curlew, Puffin and more. Volume one focuses on two habitats - towns, parks and gardens plus woodlands and forests. The programme covers identification, behaviour and more, accompanied by beautiful footage of these much-loved birds. Includes Song Thrush, Starling, Robin, Blue Tit, Goldfinch, Nightingale, Green Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Buzzard and Long-eared Owl. Volume two focuses on two habitats - fields and farmland and lakes, rivers and wetlands. The programme covers identification, behaviour and more, accompanied by beautiful footage of these much-loved birds. Includes Barn Owl, Lapwing, Magpie, Skylark, Pheasant, Kingfisher, Mallard, Bittern, Grey Heron, Wigeon and Mute Swan. Volume three focuses on two habitats - mountains, moors and heaths and coasts and cliffs. The programme covers identification, behaviour and more, accompanied by beautiful footage of these much-loved birds.Includes Peregrine, Raven, Golden Eagle, Curlew, Hobby, Avocet, Puffin, Kittiwake, Cormorant and Gannet.
The British passion for gardens and gardening stretches back hundreds of years. This ha produced an astonishing array of horticultural masterpieces both great and small. This essential guide selects the best gardens throughout Britain and Ireland, from immense landscaped parks to pocket-handkerchief-sized labours of love. Explore gardens of great botanical importance at Wisely and Kew or wander through the grand estates of Stourhead, Stowe and Chatsworth. Marvel at the twisting landforms, dramatic water features and sculptures of the exciting Garden of Comic Speculation in Scotland. Seek out hidden gems tended to by enthusiasts, such as the wave-shaped yew hedge and black reflecting pool of Veddw House in Wales, or the lush planting and eerie Gothic follies of Norfolk's Corpusty Mill Garden. Whether you are an avid plantlover or simply seeking beauty and peace, there are destinations here to satisfy every need. Both a practical touring guide and a rewarding read, The Most Amazing gardens in Britain and Ireland offers: Evocative descriptions of the history, design, plantings and special features of each garden; all the practical information you need to plan your trips and find the gardens and over 140 beautiful photographs.
Enjoy food thats fresh from plot to plate, not flown halfway round the world The sweetest carrots, the juiciest tomatoes, the most tender green beans ? all these and many more delicious vegetable varieties can be yours: sown in your own garden, reared with your own hand, and savoured by all. Growing your own vegetables provides delicious food fresh from the soil without costing the earth. Packed with natural goodness, newly pulled carrots, freshly picked peas or potatoes dug straight from the ground are a healthy and inexpensive alternative to tasteless supermarket fare. And it couldn?t be easier. Discover how planning and preparation, basic tools and the most rudimentary gardening ability can transform an allotment, garden, patio, or even an urban balcony into a homegrown haven. Choose your crop from easy-to-grow varieties that require minimum effort but deliver excellent results. You don?t need green fingers to grow great food.
Everything you need to know about growing your own, from the experts at the RHS From onions to figs, get the latest advice on growing over 150 vegetables, herbs and fruit with the new edition of RHS Vegetable & Fruit Gardening, the expert guide to everything you need to know about kitchen gardening. You'll find easy-to-follow step-by-steps of tried-and-trusted techniques, as well as specialist tips on seasonal tasks, yields per crop, sowing and harvesting times and controlling pests and diseases. Organic options are considered throughout and traditional gardening practices are combined with up-to-date methods to guarantee success. RHS Vegetable & Fruit Gardening is the only advice you need to grow healthy and tasty crops for your own table.
Much-loved broadcaster and bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh has returned to his gardening roots as presenter of ITV1's Love Your Garden. In this hugely popular show, Alan visits some of Britain's most beautiful domestic gardens, and shows us how to recreate the look ourselves, with minimum fuss. On each visit, he also helps out with any problems areas, and suggest ways to improve the design, while his team of co-presenters, Matt James, Valentine Warner, Charlotte Uhlenbrouk and Laetitia Maklouf, are on hand with advice on design, growing your own food, wildlife and craft. In this essential accompanying book, Alan looks back on all twelve gardens we saw in the first series, which span across a wide variety of styles from a cottage garden, a country garden and a city garden through to a seaside garden and a formal garden. He takes us through the practical projects, step by step - showing us how to build a pond or create a wildlife area - and includes the ideas offered by his co-presenters. Alan also explores each theme in greater depth, with extra hints and tips on everything from garden design to choosing the right plants, providing a stand-alone practical handbook to be enjoyed by gardener of all levels, and anybody who wants to explore the joys of outdoor living.
Details: There is nothing more stunning than a garden bursting with colour. Whether you want glorious borders or striking pots, 101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers is full of plant and garden ideas, plus essential advice on aftercare and maintenance. Grouped by colour and with advice on each flower, you can find the perfect plant solutions for your garden. With opulent photography accompanying every suggestion, this little book is full of floral inspiration. Ideal for: Aspiring gardeners who want to brighten up their gardens with colourful and vivid flowers. This paperback has 216 pages and measures 15.5cm x 13.5cm x 1.3cm
Wildlife Habitats for Your Garden explains how to successfully create and maintain garden habitats such as woodlands, wetlands, grasslands and rocklands. Also included is a chapter on creating these habitats in containers. You do not need to have a large garden - the smallest patios and balconies can support wildlife, even if just to sustain passing insects with nectar-rich flowers. A chapter on garden plans covers every size of space - from established gardens to a small roof garden or balcony.
Details: Like the idea of growing your own fruit, veg and herbs but don't have the room or energy? 'Crops in Pots' is a user-friendly guide to getting a taste of self-sufficiency, growing wherever you can grab the space - whether it be your patio, balcony or window sill. Apart from the many joys of growing your own food, the benefits of container gardening are manifold: accessibility, portability, soil choice, easier pest and disease control... Find out how to get started and choose your pots, how to grow and harvest - including the most appropriate crops for small spaces, how to deal with problems and lots of great tips on how to be successful on a shoestring. Ideal for: A great book for those looking for gardening inspiration. This paperback book has 256 pages and measures: 16 x 17 x 1.7cm.
No space is too small to grow delicious and healthy food. Enjoying tasty and fresh produce no longer requires a trip to the local vege shop or gourmet grocery. With The Edible Container Garden as your guide, everything from salad greens and savoury herbs to luscious fruits and vegetables can be as close as your patio, balcony, or rooftop. The Edible Container Garden explains how to plant, grow and harvest vegetables, edible flowers, fruits and herbs, when time and space are limited.
The books in this series offer a general introduction capturing the essence of a national garden style and an outline of its history, followed by explorations of representative gardens, which allow the author to explain in more detail their character and nature. This exploration of the gardens of Wales uncovers an exciting range of gardens, large and small, public and private, historic and contemporary, all over the country. Helena Attlee's lively text combines with Alex Ramsay's evocative photographs to convey a rich treasury waiting to be discovered.
Shameless shortcuts for a great garden super-fast Love being in the garden but not keen on spending the whole weekend making it look perfect? If so, then 30 Minute Gardening is just the book you've been looking for. This will have you sitting down enjoying a drink on the patio after just 30 minutes of stress-free, guilt-free gardening. Packed full of shameless shortcuts and practical tips and ideas that have instant impact, all the know-how is broken down into simple steps and picture sequences including 122 projects on creating beautiful borders, perfect patio pots and how to keep your salad growing all summer. 30 Minute Gardening is the perfect rescue remedy for anyone who loves gardening but has little time on their hands. It's all about how to have a neat garden, a pretty garden, a productive garden...and still have a life.