Review: How to Garden When You Rent by Matthew Pottage
For many years, first as a student and then in a rented flat, I had no garden, and my growing . . .
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Review: Create a Mediterranean Garden by Pattie Barron
I’ve been dreaming of blue skies, vibrantly coloured flowers and warm sun thanks to a new book that landed on . . .
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Review: Garden for the Senses by Kendra Wilson
So often in gardening, it’s the bigger picture that we focus on – the appearance of a whole border, the . . .
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Review: The English Cottage Garden by Andrew Sankey
Living in the Cotswolds, I naturally come across a lot of cottage gardens as part of my job. There’s no . . .
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Review: Grow Easy by Anna Greenland
I see a lot of gardens in my job so it takes something special to lodge in the memory. The . . .
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Review: Hi Cacti by Sabina Palermo
The appeal of Hi Cacti begins with the cover. Primary colours and a cartoon-style image of someone hugging a plant . . .
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Review: The Flower Yard by Arthur Parkinson
I’ve been reading another dangerous book. After the recent temptation of Naomi Slade’s Lilies, The Flower Yard by Arthur Parkinson . . .
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Review: Zero-Waste Gardening by Ben Raskin
A vegetable garden doesn’t seem the obvious place to fight climate change but in Zero-Waste Gardening Ben Raskin demonstrates that . . .
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Review: Lilies by Naomi Slade
Should Naomi Slade’s books come with a warning? As I found myself writing down yet another ‘must try’ variety from . . .
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Review: RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond by Kate Bradbury
Reading How to Create a Wildlife Pond one thing is clear. Kate Bradbury is obsessed with ponds. Stopped from digging . . .
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