Review Garden Design Bible
Like most gardeners I look back at my first plot and wish I had done it differently. Armed with the . . .
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Review: Garden ideas explored
Forget January, for most gardeners the calendar starts in spring and, like most new years, comes with a raft of . . .
Read moreReview: Shakespeare’s Gardens
Something that combined my love of Shakespeare with gardening was always going to appeal. What I hadn’t expected was that . . .
Read moreReview: ‘Happy Home Outside’
Like many gardeners, I rarely sit down outside. Perhaps with a cup of coffee while contemplating the jobs that still . . .
Read moreReview: ‘The Allotment Cookbook’
I don’t usually curl up with a recipe book, let alone laugh out loud while reading it. Cook books are . . .
Read moreReview: Grow Your Own Cake
It had to happen. Sooner or later someone was going to combine the nation’s current obsession with baking and its . . .
Read moreReview: ‘Making a Garden’ by Carol Klein
If there’s one thing that gardening teaches you it’s that it is far better to work with Nature than against . . .
Read moreReview: The Company of Trees by Thomas Pakenham
As a writer trees worry me. Faced with an herbaceous border, I’m in my element but charged with talking about . . .
Read moreReview: The Sceptical Gardener by Ken Thompson
Don’t judge a book . . . Despite being a paid-up member of the ‘don’t judge a book by its . . .
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Review: Paradise and Plenty by Mary Keen
So often, gardening books slot neatly into a pigeonhole. There are the coffee table tomes, low on content but packed . . .
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