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A Passion For GardeningCategory: Gardening Description: Ever since man discovered that plants could be eaten, their cultivation has been a necessity. But somewhere along the line it became first an interest and then a pleasure. And as people developed a passion for gardening, those in the business scented the opportunity to offer anything and everything to aid the amateur and professional horticulturist. How did this happen? Who were the earliest gardening gurus? What were the biggest trends of the 1930s and what happened during the Second World War when the country was urged to dig for victory? All these questions (and more) are answered and illustrated with the glorious, delightful and innocently amusing advertisements and literature that appeared as our passion for gardening has increased as the years have passed. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Twigs Way Review this product |
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Rhs Gardening Through The YearCategory: Gardening Description: Whatever the season, this is the new edition of your essential guide to gardening all year round, from the experts at the RHS. With specific monthly tasks for every part of the garden, expert plant advice, tips on organisation and over 1,000 photographs, this is the garden reference that not only tells you what to do when, but also shows you how to do it. Whether you are a green-fingered guru or are just starting out, enjoy 12 months of satisfying and successful gardening. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Ian Spence Review this product |
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Gardening A Very Peculiar HistoryCategory: Gardening Description: Jacqueline Morley explores the history of one of Britain's favourite past times - gardening. Telling the story of gardens from paradise gardens of the ancient world to classically-influenced Renaissance gardens, and from wartime Digging for Victory to contemporary decking, barbecues and architect's designs, this pocket-sized book takes a thorough look at the development of gardening. Featuring black and white illustrations, witty anecdotes and incredible trivia, readers will be entertained and educated, discovering everything from medieval gardening to the garden's significance today. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Jacqueline Morley Review this product |
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Tips For Container GardeningCategory: Gardening Description: Truth be told, you can grow almost anything in a pot and you can place those pots anywhere...on a deck, patio or rooftop. That's why so many people love container gardening. It's versatile enough for rural homeowners with acres of land as well as apartment-dwellers with no patch of ground to call their own. In fact, growing edibles in containers is a perfect way for homeowners and gardeners with limited space to have fresh food in their kitchens. Like each issue of Fine Gardening, this latest collection is brimming with 300 essential tips, savvy shortcuts and tried-and-true techniques, celebrating the growing popularity of container gardening. Tips for Container Gardening promises to bring out the bountiful best in all containers, large or small. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Fine Gardening Review this product |
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Vegetables In A Small GardenCategory: Gardening Description: This book presents simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS. Follow RHS show-how and know-how for a garden that looks great all year round (whatever size it is); from root veg to herbs and salads, and inspirational tips and techniques on choosing the right seeds, growing organic, finding the best site, fertilisers, pest protection and more guarantee success. You can get perfect results: whether you're a green-fingered guru or a gardening novice. For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Dorling Kindersley Review this product |
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Thoughtful GardeningCategory: Gardening Description: Thoughtful Gardening is based on Robin Lane Fox's own selection from his widely admired FT column, 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. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Robin Lane Fox Review this product |
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Gardeners One Line A DayCategory: Gardening Description: This elegant journal invites gardeners to record favourite gardening moments and musings every day for five years. Here, they can harvest reflections on their blooming gardens, keep notes on what they've planted, or ponder the unexpected inspiration around them. Each page filled is an opportunity to discover new delights and triumphs of gardening day by day, season by season. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Chronicle Books Review this product |
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Rhs Encyclopedia Of GardeningCategory: Animals Description: This is fully revised and updated edition of the world's finest and most authoritative source of gardening advice, from the experts at the RHS. Marking 20 years since first publication, the updated edition of the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening is the classic reference for keen gardeners. Packed with unrivalled gardening advice you'll find guidance and step-by-steps on everything from pruning to propagation. Plus new topics reflect current trends including how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers and green roofs. Whatever your level of skill in the great outdoors, expert tips and guidance from editor Christopher Brickell and a team of specialist contributors, The RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening will help you create and keep your garden perfect all year round. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 0.00 Author: Christopher Brickell Review this product |
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Gardening In PyjamasCategory: Gardening Description: This is the perfect book for you if you are one of the many people who feel that gardening could be your ultimate pleasure if only you knew just that little bit more about it. The Daily Telegraph's much-loved columnist Helen Yemm manages to strike a happy balance between giving you enough information to get you going and not so much that it scares you or puts you off entirely. She dispenses invaluable advice, minus the mumbo jumbo, with refreshing humour and a clear understanding that not everyone has the wherewithal, in terms of time and finances, to spend every possible moment in the garden. So if you find yourself padding about your plot in your nightclothes without really knowing what to do, Gardening in Pyjamas will provide you with all the essential facts to nurture your growing passion. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Helen Yemm Review this product |
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Rhs Companion To Wildlife GardeningCategory: Gardening Description: A classic book that has been fully revised, updated and freshly illustrated, The RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening shows just how much of an important part wildlife plays in any garden. Relying on RHS research and best practice, it provides information on everything from using pesticides to planting for birds and the idea of habitat creation. It looks at how much importance gardeners should put on wildlife when they make their decisions and will even show you how to attract and sustain butterflies. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Chris Baines Review this product |
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Gardening WomenCategory: Gardening Description: From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women's horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society's attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Catherine Horwood Review this product |
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Gardening In MiniatureCategory: Gardening Description: In this new book, expert on the artistry of miniature gardening, Janit Calvo, has created the definitive guide to crafting unique tiny gardens complete with original planting, accessories and functioning water features. She teaches the reader the secrets of scale and illusion, the best plant varieties and simple maintenance tips, as well as step-by-step projects which range from a tiny patio to a secret garden. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Janit Calvo Review this product |
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The Community Gardening HandbookCategory: Gardening Description: Community gardening is a growing revolution that is taking root in towns and cities all over the world. Groups of likeminded people are transforming neglected plots of land into green, flourishing spaces for everyone to enjoy. In The Community Gardening Handbook, Ben Raskin shares his keen expertise in an invaluable introduction to a new wave of collective self- sufficiency, encouraging a community audience to grow food and to garden together. A look into the background of community gardening and its benefits is followed by a practical guide: planning advice is laid out, alongside essential etiquette tips for running a successful site, and proven ideas for involving the whole neighbourhood. Add a community-minded directory of the top vegetables, flowers, fruit, and herbs to plant up, with key tips on growing in containers to maximize your space, and you can get ready to dig in for a community garden that will blossom and thrive for everyone. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Ben Raskin Review this product |
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A Gentle Plea For ChaosCategory: Gardening Description: In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Mirabel Osler Review this product |
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The Curious GardenerCategory: Gardening Description: In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening. From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English landscape and favourite old gardening clothes, to office greenery, spring in New York, waterfalls, Derek Jarman and garden design, Anna Pavord always has something interesting to say and says it with great style and candour. The perfect book to guide you through the gardening year and, on days when the weather keeps the most courageous gardener indoors, the perfect book to curl up with beside the fire. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Anna Pavord Review this product |
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Gardening On A ShoestringCategory: Gardening Description: Gardening On a Shoestring is a book that shows you how you can create a beautiful garden on any kind of budget. It's full of inventive ideas to help you either build one from scratch or to improve what you already have. It also contains advice on creating borders, planting herbs and how to look after vegetable and fruit gardens. Among the money-saving tips are ideas of the best plants to 'borrow' from friends, the easiest flowers to grow from seeds, the best long-living container plants and the most cost-effective crops. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Alex Mitchell Review this product |
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Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Japanese GardeningCategory: Gardening Description: The essential guide to creating the Japanese garden style, from design and materials to plantings. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Charles Chesshire Review this product |
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Gardening In SlippersCategory: Gardening Description: Liz has always loved gardening ever since she was a child, and is frequently in her slippers first thing in the morning, 'like so many of us who love their gardens.' Nothing misses Liz's warm and wicked wit - snails and slugs, triumphs and disasters, favourite flowers and infuriating weeds, nosy neighbours and expensive tree surgeons, the frustration of overcrowded flower shows - here is everything from the joy of seeing the first crocus to the irritation of losing a much-loved trowel. Laugh through the four seasons as you read over 100 gems, in many different styles from classic to modern, and always written straight from the heart. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Liz Cowley Review this product |
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Gardening And Planting By The MoonCategory: Gardening Description: You won't have to get up in the middle of the night to sow your carrots! Country folk know that planning their work in harmony with the rhythms of the moon produces better crops. It's that easy. They get higher yields and better flavour in vegetables. Flowers produce stronger displays and heightened colour. This gardening guide computes everything you need to know about the daily influence of the moon and the planets. With its full 15-month daily calendar, it creates an essential timetable for the year ahead and is also a fine means of self-discipline for keen gardeners. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Review this product |
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300 Step-by-step Cooking and Gardening Projects For KidsCategory: Food and Drink Description: Grow and cook with this fabulous practical guide, packed with tasty recipes and fun, educational gardening activities for inside and outside! Every project is shown step by step, with a full list of the ingredients and equipment, difficulty rating and estimation of timing. Covers all the basics, from safety, equipment and essential techniques to cooking and gardening terms, and features handy directories of ingredients and plants. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Nancy McDougall Review this product |
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The Gardening PiratesCategory: First Books and Pre school Description: The Gardening Pirates is the tale of cruel Captain Cranc and the bad ship Ych a Fi! The crew are fed up with eating ship's biscuits but when they complain, the bad-tempered captain hurls them at them. One day they land on a treasure island and start searching for treasure, which turns out to be quite unusual because it consists of seeds and gardening equipment. The cabin girl, Gwen, smuggles them on board and the pirates help her to plant them in every nook and cranny on the ship whilst keeping their treasure a secret from Captain Cranc. Eventually there is a supply of fresh vegetables and Cookie is able to make cawl. When the captain finds out, however, he promptly bans their gardening activities but thanks to a very special plant which has grown in Gwen's hat - the captain is stopped in his tracks - Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Ruth Morgan Review this product |
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The Little Book Of Gardening TipsCategory: Gardening Description: With this guide's plethora of facts, hints, and tips about lawns, flowers, soil, pots, and everything green-fingered, readers will learn how to tell the difference between soil that will kill azaleas and soil that will give life to old-fashioned roses. The right time to sow lawn seed and the wrong time to prune yew hedge is also included in The Little Book of Gardening Tips by William Fortt, a book that helps make short work of a long job and shows how the professionals go about their business. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: William Fortt Review this product |
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The Complete GardenerCategory: Gardening Description: Packed with practical advice, Monty Don breathes life into every aspect of organic gardening. Written with passion and packed with practical advice, Monty Don breathes new life into organic gardening. Monty's straightforward advice plus extraordinarily beautiful photographs taken over the course of a year in his own Hereford shire garden reveal the secrets of growing abundant flowers and vegetables, plants and produce while respecting the needs of the environment. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Monty Don Review this product |
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Gardening With Foliage FirstCategory: Gardening Description: The beauty of flowers is seductive, but flowers, by their fleeting nature, are a fickle base to provide long-lasting gardens with year-round interest. Tackle this problem with the advice in Gardening with Foliage First. Learn how to first build a framework of foliage and then layer in flowers and other artistic elements to add the finishing touches. This simple, recipe-style approach to garden design features 127 combinations for both sunny and shady gardens that work for a variety of climates and garden challenges, including deer, dry shade, and more. Gardening with Foliage First has something for every gardener - beginners will learn how to choose the right foliage plants, experienced gardeners will be inspired by fresh twists on old favorites, and everyone will be encouraged to create a beautiful, year-round garden. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Karen Chapman Review this product |
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You Know Youre A Gardening Fanatic When...Category: Humour and Satire Description: You know you're a gardening fanatic when...you favour your ride-on lawnmower over your Ferrari...you think talking dirty means whispering the word 'compost'. If this sounds all too familiar, read on to discover whether you've really gone to seed or you're just one petal short of a flower! Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Ben Fraser Review this product |
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Gardeners WeaklyCategory: Ball Games Description: Gardening - you either love it or hate it - can be a backbreaking chore, or a labour of love. Either way it has its funny side as you'll find out in this new collection of gardening jokes. So, don't go to seed - sit back and relax as you turn over the leaves and have a good laugh and maybe...even get mow-tivated. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Hugh Silvey Review this product |
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Gardening At LongmeadowCategory: Gardening Description: Monty Don made a triumphant return to our screens as presenter of Gardeners' World. A firm favourite with viewers, Monty's infectious enthusiasm for plants, attention to the finer details of gardening technique and easy charm have seen the ratings soar. Here Monty invites us into the garden at Longmeadow, to show us how he created this beautiful garden, and how we can do the same in our own. Following the cycle of the seasons, Gardening at Longmeadow will introduce readers to the garden from the earliest snowdrops of January through the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden, the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden, the autumn harvest in the orchard, and on to a Christmas feast sourced from the vegetable gardens. Describing the magic of each area at different times of the year, Monty will explain the basics of what to do when and how to get the most from each plant. He'll talk through the essential techniques and more complex processes, accompanied by easy-to-follow, step-by-step photography. Longmeadow is a gardeners' garden, but this will be a book for gardening enthusiasts of all skill levels who have been inspired by what they've seen, and who would like to achieve something similar for themselves. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Monty Don Review this product |
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The Irish Gardeners HandbookCategory: Gardening Description: Want to get into gardening? Wondering how to get started? Anxious that you won't know what to do? Have given up before, want to get started again? Want to improve your growing, yields and practices? This is the book for you. It takes you through all the most commonly grown vegetables and fruits in the context of Irish conditions. Learn from a gardener who has worked a garden since the 1940s as a child on his father's market garden, then as an adult home gardener and horticulturist, currently as an allotment advisor. This book combines the old and most recent knowledge in one easy-to-follow text. It's a book you'll consult over and over, through the wayward Irish seasons. Gardening for all situations Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Michael Brenock Review this product |
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Gardening With KidsCategory: Non fiction Books Description: Children find gardening fun and fascinating - it's wonderful to witness the pride and amazement they feel when they produce their own juicy tomatoes or sky-high sunflowers. Gardening with Kids is packed with fun and interesting projects for boys and girls. There are appealing ideas for growing flowers, fruit and vegetables from seed or bulb as well as a multitude of fun garden-related crafts that kids will love, including decorating plant pots, making a bird bath or a nesting box, and pressing flowers. Just follow the simple instructions and step-by-step photography, and you can't go wrong. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Catherine Woram Review this product |
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Container Gardening For DummiesCategory: Gardening Description: The ultimate guide to cultivating charming gardens in any container Want to spruce up your outdoor space with fresh flowers, plants, vegetables, and other succulents? Container Gardening For Dummies, Second Edition gives you clear, concise, and step-by-step instructions for cultivating charming gardens in everything from a redwood window box to a hanging basket to an old pair of cowboy boots. Featuring eight pages of full-color photos, this helpful guide fills you in on every step of the process, from working with different soil mixes to preventing insects, pests, and diseases to expressing style with color, form, texture, and other design elements. * This edition includes 25% new and updated material * Choosing, planting, and caring for flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables * Up-to-date container trends, including edible gardening Container Gardening For Dummies, Second Edition is a fun, informative guide for inexperienced city slickers and savvy country cousins alike. Delivery time: 3 - 5 working days Delivery cost: 2.95 Author: Bill Marken Review this product |
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