What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed flower gardener should do to ensure success? Which plants should you grow and which varieties will guarantee color, interest, and fragrance throughout the year? What are the most important things you need to know to keep your garden healthy, pest-free, bountiful, and beautiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful, for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments, this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Flower-Growing Diary

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bourne, Val

Gardening & Landscape Design

BANTAM PRESS

What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed fruit gardener should do to ensure success? Which fruits should you grow and which varieties will guarantee color, interest, and fragrance throughout the year? What are the most important things you need to know to make your crop blight-free, healthy, and plentiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful, for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments, this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Fruit-Growing Diary

Transworld Publishers

What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed vegetable gardener should do to ensure success? Which vegetables should you grow and which varieties will guarantee color, interest, and fragrance throughout the year? What are the most important things you need to know to make your crop blight-free, healthy, and plentiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful, for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments, this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Vegetable-Growing Diary

'The Natural Gardener' shows exactly how to use organic principles to create not only a healthy garden, with the balance to control garden pests and other hazards in an environmentally friendly way, but also one that has a special beauty.

The Natural Gardener

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

Tough Plants: Garden gladiators that pack a punch in extreme weather

For those who garden in snatched moments . . . 
Whether you have a spacious plot or a small patch in the garden, this handbook is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand. 
It offers practical month-by-month suggestions for making the most of the little time you can spare on both the coldest winter days and the long summer afternoons, with ideas to inspire even the most experienced allotment gardeners. 
Focusing on the essentials needed to produce a great crop, this is for those who want to but struggle to find the time to grow their own.

The Ten-Minute Gardener: A Month-by-Month Guide to Growing Your Own

Penguin Random House UK

After decades of emphasis on pest control, often achieved through chemical means, gardeners around the world are beginning to come around to a new—or, really, old—way of thinking: a garden whose very diversity of plant and animal life makes it healthy, beautiful, and productive. If you’ve been wanting to make that change, The Living Jigsaw is the book for you. This masterclass in natural gardening outlines a cornucopia of tried-and-true techniques to help you develop a healthy garden ecology. Val Bourne introduces both new and experienced gardeners to the wide diversity of birds, animals, insects, and even slugs that help bring a natural balance to a home garden—and help its plants and flowers shrug off problems before they become entrenched. This season-by-season guide offers planting strategies, tips for successful cultivation, and new insights into the interactions between plants and animals that are an essential part of any healthy garden. As much a celebration of natural gardening as a how-to book, and written both to teach and to inspire, The Living Jigsaw will help you make sure that your green thumb is truly, ecologically green.

The Living Jigsaw: The Secret Life in Your Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

For many gardeners, winter is simply a season to endure while planning for the coming spring. The rich floral splendor they've enjoyed has given way to dull browns and grays tipped by lonely snow-capped branches. But that doesn't have to be: there are so many easy and inexpensive ways to add real winter interest to any garden. Two hundred color photographs show the diverse possibilities, along with site-specific design plans. There are suggestions for selecting and caring for a broad assortment of flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees that boast dramatic winter flair, plus professional choices for cold-hardy container plants. Smart tips include using colored stones, adding bronze and wood accents, and maximizing the effect of winter light on plants.

The Winter Garden: Create a Garden that Shines Through the Forgotten Season

Cassell

A sumptuously colorful garden has the extraordinary power to lift the spirits no matter the time of year. Yet many people struggle to create their own color combinations that are suitable to site and soil, and which take their gardens through the seasons. This new book provides inspiration and practical advice for gardeners wishing to improve their plantings, both in appearance and in use. Val Bourne shows how varied and vibrant plantings can enhance the look of beds and borders, and how – with a little planning – they can be beautiful features for much longer than one season. Color in the Garden is particularly useful for those with small gardens, where every inch of space must work hard for as long as possible. Written by a true plantswoman and experienced gardener, with an in-depth knowledge of plants and how they behave, as well as a strong and creative sense of color, this guide will revolutionize the way we think about color in our gardens and ensure that no gardener will ever feel at a loss again.

Color in the Garden

Merrell Publishers

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