The Patient Gardener
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll
Sometimes a book comes along that is just a bit different to the everyday coffee table book on gardens and plants and The Gardener’s Companion to Medicinal Plants is such a...
Very occasionally I receive a book to review and the timing of its arrival seems to be very serendipitous. This is true of The Art of Gardening, a Timberpress publication which focuses...
I have to admit that I didn’t greet the new The Plant Lover’s Guide to Tulips by Richard Wilford, published by Timberpress in association with Kew, with the same incandescent...
I was asked to review Anne Wareham’s latest book – ‘Outwitting Squirrels, and other garden pests and nuisances’. The book’s strap line intrigued me “101 cunning stratagems to reduce dramatically...
I adore Epimediums. If there was a plant that I might collect it would be these so when I was asked by Timberpress if I would like to review Sally Gregson’s...
I am lucky to frequently receive books from Frances Lincoln to review but I have to admit that I was thrilled to be asked to review Secret Gardens of The Cotswolds...
I am always in two minds about anthologies. I often find them disappointing with the assorted short articles or stories. I think I really like to get into a subject more. ...
As a gardener who uses their greenhouse for more than tomatoes and annual seedlings I was interested to receive a review copy of The Greenhouse Gardener’s Manual by Roger Marshall from...
If you thought protecting natural species and the environmental movement was a 20th century phenomon then you would be wrong. According to Andrea Wulf in The Founding Gardeners, James Madison, the...
I was thrilled to recently be offered a review copy of RHS Chelsea Flower Show: A Centenary Celebration by Brent Elliott. Although in recent years my enthusiasm for the show has...
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