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The Curious Gardener's Almanac: Centuries of Practical Garden Wisdom (Hardcover) by Niall Edworthy
There are over 1000 entries of remarkable information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate, recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions, biodynamics. This is a short collection as profuse and variegated as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional says, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom. The spirit and focus of the Almanac is British but the wider picture is international as so much of our gardens originated from overseas. Dry or dull information has no place in the almanac and presentation is as appealing as the content.
isbn: 1903919908
Price: £10.00
Allotment Days: A Celebration of the Wonderful World of Plots and Planting (Paperback) by Matthew Biggs (Author)
The rise in the popularity of allotments means that the old image of flat-capped men leaning on spades is no longer valid. This book aims to bring to life the unorthodox, the highly successful and the occasionally absurd, activities going on down the allotment plots. From a singer/songwriter travelling the length of the country to catalogue allotment life, to solar-powered chicken coops, pumpkin art and prize-winning plot owners - there's more than originally meets the eye. "Allotment Days" also offers an array of allotment tips and hints so you, too, can make the most of your allotment. COVER PRICE £9.99
ISBN: 9781845376840
Price: £8.99
Allotment Folk (Hardback) by Chris Opperman
Profiling the unique obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old, this book dispels the myth that there's no more to allotments than home-grown vegetables, compost, weeding and an over-abundance of tomato seedlings. Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performance art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this book is a humourous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community. Each story is accompanied by revealing photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her "patch".
isbn: 184330497x
Price: £6.99
Anatomy of a Rose: The Secret Life of Flowers (Hardcover) by Sharman Apt Russell
An exploration of the sex and science of flowers. This is a botanical journey that reveals the science behind intelligent plants. Bringing together the work of botanists around the globe, this book looks at how they evolved, how they survive and how they heal. It also shows us how flowers regulate their own temperature, attract pollinating bats and even smell like a rotting corpse. Russell also looks at flowers senses and their healing powers, and how they are being used as a main line of defence against childhood lukaemia.
isbn: 0434008486
Price: £6.99
A Gardener's Book of Days (Hardcover) by Rosemary Verey (Author)
A perpetual diary, with photographs of plants and gardens on every spread, in which gardeners can record personal notes on their garden, from reminders of jobs to be done, to seasonal observations. For each month, Rosemary Verey points out the pleasures that each month will bring, as well as the tasks to be done, and at the back of the book there are 30 pages that give additional space for gardeners to itemise plants bought and their position in the garden. Rosemary Verey is a gardening writer and plantswoman, the author of "Good Planting" and many other books, including "The Garden in Winter" and "A Countrywoman's Notes". COVER PRICE £11.99
Price: £5.99
A Bunch of Sweet Peas (Paperback) by Henry Donald
In 1911, in the Scottish Border village of Sprouston, the young parish minister wrote to the Daily Mail for entry forms for its sweet pea competition. The top prize was a staggering GBP1000 and organisers predicted that as many as 15,000 would enter. He could not foretell that the paper's estimate of the number of competitors would be more than doubled, or that a fortnight before the deadline a nation-wide drought would threaten the very existence of the sweet peas he was so painstakingly cultivating. This touching - and beautifully illustrated - is based on a true story
isbn: 1841953873
Price: £7.99
The Cook and the Gardener (Paperback) by Amanda Hesser (Author)
A beautiful paperback edition of this bestselling Radio 4 Book of the Week. The ancient link between the gardener and the cook is at the heart of this remarkably evocative cookbook in which Amanda Hesser relates the story of a year she spent as a cook in a seventeenth-century chateau in Burgundy and her relationship with Monsieur Milbert, the charmingly sly peasant caretaker of the chateau's kitchen gardens. A rare culinary and literary experience.COVER PRICE £12.99
ISBN: 9781904573395
Price: £11.69
An Ear to the Ground: Garden Science for Ordinary Mortals (Hardcover) by Ken Thompson (Author)
While the British are happy to call themselves a nation of gardeners, they rarely have any idea of the science that is happening before their very eyes. How did plants get to be the way they are? Why do they have pretty flowers? How different would things have been if the wrong kind of pollinators had got the upper hand? Why are Latin names so complicated, and why Latin anyway? Why is a weed-free lawn an ecological impossibility? This entertaining book gives the answers to these questions and many more. It shows how a little botanical knowledge can bring not just better results, but also peace of mind, and that losing sleep over such traditional gardening bogeys as weeds, pests, and pruning, is not necessarily the best course. Indeed, if Ken Thompson's message can be summed up in one word, that word is relax.
isbn: 1903919193
Price: £10.00
Gardeners, Gurus and Grubs: The Stories of Garden Inventors and Innovators (Hardcover) by George Drower (Author)
This volume collects 50 stories of gardening invention, innovation and discovery. Among them is that of Thomas Hyl, who in 1577 devised the first water sprinkler; Nathaniel Ward who began a craze for indoor gardening in 1829 with his terrarium case; and Henry Telende, who in 1720 grew England's first pineapple. From the invention of the trellis, flower pots and the waterscrew in the ancient world; via secateurs, jute string and flame guns in the Victorian age; to the Gro-Bag and Flymo of modern times, the ingenious achievements make an inspiring international collection. COVER PRICE £14.99
ISBN: 9780750925433
Price: £6.99
Gnomes and Gardens (Hardcover) by Nigel Suckling (Author), Wayne Anderson (Illustrator)
A look at all aspects of gnome life, their origins and fashions, their pastimes, opinions and culinary tastes. It examines urban gnomes, suburban, bucolic and wild ones.COVER PRICE £12.99
ISBN: 9781862054257
Price: £6.99
My Garden in Summer (My Garden Series) (Hardcover) by E.A. Bowles (Author), Peter Barnes (Editor), Charles Elliott (Preface)
E. A. Bowles's trilogy reflects his understanding of the plants in his garden at Myddelton House. Each of the volumes contains a new preface by Charles Elliott.PUBLISHED PRICE £17.99
ISBN: 9780881924138
Price: £5.99
Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants (Hardcover) by Nicholas Harberd (Author)
"Seed to Seed" is part field notebook, part sketchbook and part diary. Built upon a narrative of the passing seasons of 2004, it relates that narrative to the life history of an 'iconic' plant. It gives a description of what is 'seen' and of the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie the visible events in the plant's life, and tells the story of the last ten years of scientific discoveries in Nicholas Harberd's own laboratory as the team works on decoding the genome of a basic plant, thale cress - the fruit-fly of the plant world. This is a book for the general reader written by a scientist, passionate about his subject, who decided to get out into the open air and use the discoveries of the laboratory to explain the secret workings of the natural world. Set in the Norfolk country-side, with journeys to places as far away as New Zealand, Mallorca, Ireland and California, it is beautifully illustrated with more than forty sketches and diagrams, and gives a wonderfully open portrait of the scientific mind at work. COVER PRICE £16.99
isbn: 9780747570394
Price: £15.00
Seven Deadly Sins of Gardening: With the Vices and Virtues of Its Gardeners (Hardcover) by Toby Musgrave
This is a very accessible history of the vices and virtues of British gardeners through the ages, particularly those who shaped the National Trust gardens. From the obsessive to the visionary, the eclectic to the eccentric, each chapter explores how a range of different individuals played out their excess in a variety of gardens, thus revealing the gardens' concealed secrets - just how and why they were created; the fortunes lavished and lost; clandestine and unorthodox uses; and hidden meanings for those who want to know how to 'read' a garden. Sir Francis Dashwood's lusty garden at West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, for example, has been described as "laid out by a curious arrangement of streams, bushes and plantation to represent the female form". This is very much a reading book for those passionate about gardens and in particular historical gardens. The chapters cover: Pride and Humility; Avarice and Generosity; Envy and Love; Wrath and Kindness; Lust and Self Control; Gluttony and Temperance; and finally, Sloth and Zeal.
isbn: 1905400462
Price: £9.99
Working with the Curlew: A Farmhand's Life (Paperback) by Trevor Robinson (Author)
In "Working with the Curlew" Trevor Robinson shares his enthusiasm and joy for his work as a shepherd on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire and later as a farmhand near Leominster in Hereford. He celebrates the intricate details of traditional farm life: selling rabbits at tuppence each, the village hop, sheep shearing, lambing, shire horses, haymaking, the warm welcome taste of tea on a snow-bound moor, muck spreading, cheese and bread making, trout-tickling, and killing the pig - "a quiet job well done". During one severe Yorkshire winter 600 sheep were lost, and he had to leave his job - 'the call of the curlew was still over two months away, when it came I was not there to hear it'. His new job in Herefordshire brought different skills: hedge laying, ploughing matches, haymaking, chain harrowing and crop rotation, and inevitably, the arrival of tractor and combine harvester. This book is an intimate and evocative account of an era before factory farming, when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, a smallholding could sustain a family, and there were enough small farms for a shepherd to climb the ladder to ownership. cover price £7.20
ISBN: 9781903998342
Price: £7.20
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