Review: Beauty and Abundance
Rather than gazing out at my sad, drought-hit garden, I’ve been dreaming about how it could look with a new . . .
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Category: Book reviews
Review: Way to Grow
Every gardener has at least one gardening hack. A nifty way to sow seed, ideas for beating snails, or things . . .
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Review: The Hedgerow Apothecary’s Field Guide to Wildflowers
I was admiring the wildflowers in hedgerows on a recent trip to Cornwall but there’s far more to them than . . .
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Review: Garden Yourself Happy
Given his status as a social media influencer and the seemingly endless books on gardening for good mental health, it . . .
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Review: How to Grow Food
Growing and cooking go hand-in-hand so a book that combines the two is a welcome addition to the bookshelf. How . . .
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Review: The Thrifty Gardener
With prices rising almost daily, Mark Lane’s new book The Thrifty Gardener couldn’t have been better timed. Designed to show . . .
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Review: The Easy Garden
Like many of my generation, I learned my gardening from parents, watching what they did and being encouraged to grow . . .
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Review: The Arboretum
Of all the plants that surround us, it’s often trees that provoke the biggest emotional response. Perhaps it’s because so . . .
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Review: You’re Overwatering It!
Houseplants can be tricky. They grow in what are essentially artificial, indoor conditions, care advice can be conflicting and knowing . . .
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Review: A Year of Colour
Who doesn’t want mood-lifting colour in their garden? It’s easy in summer with masses of flowers in bloom but, as . . .
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