Review: ‘The Allotment Cookbook’
I don’t usually curl up with a recipe book, let alone laugh out loud while reading it. Cook books are . . .
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Review: 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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Review: 365 Days of Colour in Your Garden
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told a garden is planted for year-round colour. In truth, . . .
Read moreReview: The Writer’s Garden by Jackie Bennett
This was always going to be a book that appealed, based as it is on my two great loves: literature . . .
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