Review: My Life With Plants by Roy Lancaster
I first met Roy Lancaster when he led a guided tour of Plas Cadnant gardens as part of the North . . .
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Review: A Little History of British Gardening
My father always used to say that if you hung onto something long enough it would eventually come back into . . .
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Review: Good Soil by Tina Raman, Ewa-Marie Rundquist & Justine Lagache
For many gardeners, feeding the soil is like the plumbing in a house, essential but frankly uninspiring. Indeed, the women . . .
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Review: Urban Flowers by Carolyn Dunster
It’s been some years since my gardening was confined to a few houseplants and some pots balanced precariously outside a . . .
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Review: Gardens of Marrakesh by Angelica Gray
If gardening books should inspire or inform, then Gardens of Marrakesh succeeds on both fronts. Part history lesson, part traveller’s . . .
Read moreReview: The Book of Orchids
I’ve always been nervous of orchids. Partly because I’m not known for my skill with houseplants. Things that grow outside . . .
Read moreReview: Raised Bed Revolution by Tara Nolan
As with elephant eating, so growing vegetables is much easier in bite-sized pieces. I used to have an allotment-style plot, . . .
Read moreReview: RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening by Chris Baines
It seems hard to imagine a time when gardeners didn’t encourage wildlife into their gardens. Most that I meet welcome . . .
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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