Monty Don's intimate record in his own words and photographs of the garden he has created from scratch over the past fifteen years.

Whatever the season, this guide to gardening all year round features specific monthly tasks for various parts of the garden, expert plant advice, tips on organisation and over 1,000 photographs. It tells you what to do when, and also shows you how to do it.

This updated edition contains new chapters on baby vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.

New paperback edition of Collins' best-selling gardening title. This wonderfully illustrated book celebrates the blood, sweat and joy to be had in 'growing your own' in an allotment. Includes in-depth, practical gardening know-how, stories from allotmenteers and recipes.

A comprehensive guide thats aims to tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits as well as gourmet or unusual varieties, and how to fit them into stylish small gardens.

Garden Inspiration. In this unique book influential garden designer Dan Pearson, weekly columnist for The Observer, discloses his personal inspirations. He uses his own distinctive photographs as reference points, giving the reader a direct and intimate insight into where and what he draws upon when working on his own projects. Far from being a traditional gardening publication, this book expands

Contains over 1000 entries of information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate, recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions, biodynamics. This work also includes famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom.

Allotment gardening is becoming increasingly popular as people discover that growing their own organic vegetables, fruits and herbs is an achievable option. This work is packed with practical information on various aspects of growing produce on an allotment. It includes tips on choosing a plot, preparing the soil, planting the beds, and more.

Helps you to find out what to do when, to ensure your plants are well cared for and your garden blooms all year round. Follow over 1,300 seasonal tasks for every part of the garden, expert plant advice, including star plants from January to December, and tips on organisation.

Offers more than 2,000 hints and tips to ensure faster, efficient gardening. This book includes advice and tips on renovation, planting, and general garden maintenance and safety.

Discusses various aspects of organic gardening. This book reveals the secrets of growing abundant flowers and vegetables, plants and produce while respecting the needs of the environment.

Gives you a comprehensive guide to becoming a successful gardener. This work starts with the fundamentals, covering the essentials that every gardener needs to know, including information on how plants work and what they need to survive, as well as advice on where to begin if you're a first-time gardener.

This anthology of practical advice from more than 50 eminent gardeners is full of wit, wisdom and experience. Comprising extracts on subjects as varied as water gardens and window boxes, lettuce and lupins, it offers insights into the patience and versatility required of the successful gardener as he or she negotiates the vagaries of soil, climate and the seasons - to say nothing of the ...

Helps you create the perfect small garden for your needs. This title guides you to getting the most from your garden: with top tips on making your boundaries seem bigger, breaking up the plot, choosing the right plants for the space, creating storage for all your bits and bobs, and a space for enjoying it all after the hard work is done.

The Gardener's Pocket Bible provides everything you could possibly need to know about gardening, including essential facts and figures, from frost facts to wildlife gardening. Designed so that all the information you need is in one pocket-sized book, it allows you to spend less time researching, and more time gardening.

Are you being bullied by a mollusc that slimes all over your garden and munches through your favourite delphinium? Take a stand against slugs with 50 alternative, organic, natural, chemical and humane solutions to slug problems.

Describing 900 genera and over 8000 plants, this A-Z gardening encyclopaedia also introduces a way of identifying plants from their appearance alone. The book's coverage encompasses fruit, vegetables, herbs, house plants, flowers, foliage, shrubs and trees.

Intended for those who want to learn how people gardened in the past and what they have contributed to our gardens, this book includes sections on the great gardeners in history; remarkable gardens around the world; key gardening moments in history; and, the wildlife in our gardens.

Helps the gardener to identify problem and to show whether preventative measures and treatments are necessary. From lawn weeds to pet problems, water shortages to fungi, this book gives you the information you need to keep your garden healthy.

Contains colour photographs and at-a-glance information for over 1,000 plants. This pocket-sized book gives you the plants for each month from bright spring bulbs to luscious evergreens.