Review: 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 . . .
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Review: New Small Garden by Noel Kingsbury
In common with many people, my first proper garden was small. A typical back-of-terrace town plot, it was narrow, overlooked . . .
Read moreReview: Gardens of the Italian Lakes
Friends smiled when they heard I was reviewing Steven Desmond’s Gardens of the Italian Lakes. We are known as the . . .
Read moreReview: ‘New Wild Garden’
Time was the only wild flowers I would see when visiting gardens were the weeds that the owner had missed. . . .
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Review Garden Design Bible
Like most gardeners I look back at my first plot and wish I had done it differently. Armed with the . . .
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 . . .
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