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Great Reads For Gardening Enthusiasts
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items I am an AVID reader of Gardening Books. I read tons of them to research, learn and scratch up on my skills. Here are just a few I would recommend anyone to read from beginner to Professional gardeners. You can never know everything about gardening. T...
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Books I Highly Recommend From RHS To Plant Folklore
Beautiful Bookmarks Nature Inspired
Books and Equipment for Composting
Wildlife
Books I Highly Recommend From RHS To Plant Folklore
Some of the best books I own from the RHS Catalogue to Plant Folklore, Self Sufficiency The History behind where plant get their names and Wildlife Gardening. A broad selection and I love them all.
This is a really great tongue in cheek book. It gives ypu lots of serious advice whilst fighting off the Zombies! It is fun to read and has loads of great growing advice. It would make a great quirky gift for somebody that grows their own.
Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse by Isabel Lloyd, Phil Clarke | Waterstones
New for the 2025 Gardening Season. RHS releases this book yearly. These books are really useful. Lots of photos, illustrations, tips, sustanability ideas, task lists month by month, tables of information the list goes on. A very enjoyable book to use...
RHS The Garden Almanac 2025 by Royal Horticultural Society, Angie Lewin | Waterstones
This book is so useful to helping you pin down ideas you may have so you can make a definitive plan and start your project.
RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design by DK
This book is fantastic. Finally understand the meaning of plant names. I had a lightbulb moment! reading this book. Now plant names make a lots of sense to me now. RHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored Aided by this b...
Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Latin for Gardeners
'Clever... valuable introduction to the study of plant science.' - Gardeners Illustrated RHS Botany for Gardeners is more than just a useful reference book on the science of botany and the language of horticulture - it is a practical, hands-on guide ...
RHS Botany for Gardeners by Royal Horticultural Society
MY BOOK OF THE WEEK Huw Richards is somebody I like to watch on you tube, he has great knowledge and growing skills when it comes to growing food sustainably. I have personally implemented some of his practices and they work. i am so glad he has writ...
The Self-Sufficiency Garden by Huw Richards, Sam Cooper | Waterstones
New for this year. I love these Almanacs they are full off random facts and info, so I always learn something new from them.
RHS Garden Almanac 2024 by RHS | Waterstones
If you need to prune it in the UK then the plant is probably in this book. I use this book on a regular basis to make sure I am identifying and pruning plants correctly and at the right time of year for them to flower properly and stay healthy. A mus...
RHS Pruning Plant by Plant by DK - Waterstones
This is a good book for a month by month look at which jobs you should do in the garden. It has many helpful pieces of advice and an added plant directory at the back. It is a useful guide to be able to figure out which plants will give you flowers e...
RHS Gardening Through the Year by Ian Spence - Waterstones
RHS Weeds- The Beauty and uses of 50 Vagabond Plants. Great Descriptions and illustrations of what you can do with the plants that you don't really want in your garden. This book will make you take another look at the “Vagabond Plants” and maybe you'...
Weeds by Royal Horticultural Society, Gareth Richards
This is a really interesting book if you like to know the history and origins of plants. RHS Genealogy for Gardeners is part of the bestselling series that includes RHS Latin for Gardeners and RHS Botany for Gardeners. This informative, easy-to-under...
RHS Genealogy for Gardeners by Simon Maughan, Dr ...
A great all rounder for knowledge. This updated version now includes sections for wildlife gardening, climate change, peat free and organic gardening. Gardening methods that are becoming more and more popular with the younger generation of upcoming g...
RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening by Christopher Brickell, DK
If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, start your own wildlife pond in your back garden. Whether you are looking to do something to help the environment, building a feature pond as a family landscaping project, or attracting local ...
RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond: Plan, Dig...
Increase your stock of plants easily and for free by propagating them yourself. RHS How to Grow Plants for Free demystifies the art of taking cuttings and explains the other ways you can multiply your garden plants. Propagating your own plants is fun...
RHS How to Grow Plants for Free by Simon Akeroyd | Waterstones
Unlock your garden's winter potential and see the beauty and promise of the colder months with award-winning garden designer and author, Naomi Slade.
There is so much to marvel at in a winter garden. As summer flowers fade and autumn winds strip trees, the season brings new delights to draw us outside, from the dusting of frost on bare seedheads and the long-reaching shadows cast by a December d...
RHS The Winter Garden is a celebration of the coldest season, with stunning photography that captures the very best that winter has to offer. Discover the bulbs that will bloom and the ornamental grasses that will dance in the winter breeze; create...
There is so much to marvel at in a winter garden. As summer flowers fade and autumn winds strip trees, the season brings new delights to draw us outside, from the dusting of frost on bare seedheads and the long-reaching shadows cast by a December d...
RHS The Winter Garden is a celebration of the coldest season, with stunning photography that captures the very best that winter has to offer. Discover the bulbs that will bloom and the ornamental grasses that will dance in the winter breeze; create...
RHS The Winter Garden by Naomi Slade | Waterstones
Are you surrounded by weeds? Is your lawn forlorn? Are your bushes diseased? Do you long to create an outdoor space you can enjoy with friends - a garden you can show off with pride?
How to Garden When You're New to Gardening shows you the basics needed to get your green space under control and keep it that way. Drawing on the world-renowned expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society, the book is packed full of creative ideas...
Get to know your garden and choose plants that will grow well in particular soil types and conditions year after year. From planting and training decorative climbers, to designing seasonal hanging basket displays, and growing your own tomatoes, the...
How to Garden When You're New to Gardening shows you the basics needed to get your green space under control and keep it that way. Drawing on the world-renowned expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society, the book is packed full of creative ideas...
Get to know your garden and choose plants that will grow well in particular soil types and conditions year after year. From planting and training decorative climbers, to designing seasonal hanging basket displays, and growing your own tomatoes, the...
RHS How to Garden When You're New to Gardening by DK | Waterstones
Finally a book that embraces Weeds! A great new book for 2024. Learn about the benefits and uses of 40 different common weeds that occur throughout Europe and North America, before you pull them out they may just be exactly what you want to keep.
RHS What's That Weed? by Guy Barter | Waterstones
Hands down one of my favourite young gardener's. I especially love her approach to gardening with nature and wildlife in mind. ‘Rewild Your Garden’ is a must for any nature enthusiast when it comes to planting up a garden no matter how big or small y...
Frances Tophill: Books
I had to share this new one from my gardening heroine. I would recommend any book by Carol she has so much gardening wisdom to share and I aleays learn aomething new when I read her books.
Hortobiography by Carol Klein | Waterstones
A hugely informative book. You'll learn so much about the importance of bees and how you can attract them to your garden.
The Bee Garden by Maureen Little | Waterstones
If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, start your own wildlife pond in your back garden. Whether you are looking to do something to help the environment, building a feature pond as a family landscaping project, or attracting local ...
RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond: Plan, Dig...
Brand Spanking New Release. One of the original gardeners that made me have such a passion for gardening. I have learnt so much from him over the years and still am to this day. A hugely knowledgeable gardener. Check this book out definitely!
The Gardening Book by Monty Don | Waterstones
Nick Bailey shows you how to plant and manage your garden, whatever its size, to ensure year-round colour and interest. Initially explaining simple colour theory principles and how to apply them to your garden, the book goes on to highlight beautiful...
365 Days of Colour In Your Garden by Nick Bailey, Nota Bene Horticulture Ltd | Waterstones
Rewilding is taking the forefront of gardening methods of recent and this is a great book to learn the skills you need to achieve this in your own garden. #ad
The Butterfly Brothers: books, biography...
Currently Up for Pre Order- I will be adding this to my bookcase. This Gardener knows how to put allsorts of plants together that you wouldn't expect would work. It is my kind of gardening. A place you and the pollinators can enjoy your garden in har...
Arthur Parkinson - Planting a Paradise (Hardback) - Waterstones
Exploration of the New World offered far reaching possibilities for the acquisition of new plants and for trees, but the impact that the introduction of plants from the New World had, and still has, on the English garden is frequently forgotten. Gard...
American Spirit in the English Garden by Jean Stone | Waterstones
British National Trust Gardens are some of the most beautifully cared for in the UK. I really enjoy going to National Trust Historical properties for inspiration and just to be in gardens on a grand scale. Why not get some of your own inspiration fro...
Gardens of the National Trust: An inspiring ... UK
Just looking at the cover of this book makes we want to know what wonders are on the other side of that green door! This book is a magical history of the lost, hidden and forgotten. A journey through follies, orchards, fairy gates, ice houses, garden...
Secret Gardens by Claire Masset, National Trust Books
A look inside one of London's most Beautiful Gardens at Buckingham Palace. A history of how it has changed and evolved to keep up with more modern times.
English Castles by Historic UK, Collins Books
The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860 - Shire Library (Paperback)zoom The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860 - Shire Library (Paperback) Sarah Jane Downing (author) During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society. Laid out with formal gardens and buildings for dining and amusement, the pleasure gardens were the scene of upper class exercise and entert...
The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860 by Sarah Jane Downing | Waterstones
Environmental horticulture - also referred to as landscape horticulture and amenity horticulture - is the umbrella term for the horticulture that we encounter in our daily lives. This includes parks, botanic gardens, sports facilities, landscape gard...
Environmental Horticulture by Ross Cameron, James ...
I follow this method on part of my allotment and it works so well. The UK's leading no-dig gardening expert, Charles Dowding, shares his organic approach to growing healthy, vibrant crops. The no-dig approach to gardening – based on the key principle...
Organic Gardening by Charles Dowding | Waterstones
Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple ...
No Dig by Charles Dowding | Waterstones
This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements plans, plant and maintain a well-stocked cutting garden, and demonstrates how to create arrangements ranging from simple bunches to roman...
The The Cutting Garden | Waterstones
Learn the basic skills you'll need to arrange your home grown flowers and foliage. "The Beginner's Guide to Floristry is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to floristry and will delight amateur flower arrangers and professionals alike with its combin...
The Beginner's Guide to Floristry by Rosemary Batho, Judy Kay | Waterstones
There is more folklore, mythology and magic associated with our trees and forests than with any other living things. Known throughout the world as dark and wild places where witches make mischief and eerie creatures dwell, forests are also places of ...
Kew - Witch's Forest by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Sandra Lawrence | Waterstones
The Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants - from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore h...
Kew - The Witch's Garden by Sandra Lawrence | Waterstones
In the tradition of Black Dog & Leventhal's successful Chinese Natural Cures, Healing Secrets of the Native Americans brings the age-old knowledge and trusted techniques of Native-American healing to a wider audience. From this clear, reliable, a...
Healing Secrets of the Native Americans by Porter Shimer | Waterstones
If you're in search of natural remedies for common ailments, this comprehensive guide has over 550 healing herbs to promote health and well-being. Invite mother nature into your garden! Learn how to cultivate, harvest and make your own treatments wit...
Encyclopedia Of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier | Waterstones
This is a fascinating read. Of course, we are entirely dependent on plants for our food and the air we breathe, but did you know that 5,000 mature English oak trees were used in the construction of Admiral Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, or that sweet...
This beautifully designed and illustrated volume provides an engaging guide to the fifty key plants that have had the most impact on human history. Packed full of information, the book includes details about the habitat and characteristics of each ...
This beautifully designed and illustrated volume provides an engaging guide to the fifty key plants that have had the most impact on human history. Packed full of information, the book includes details about the habitat and characteristics of each ...
Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws | Waterstones
Want a book that specifically looks at plants for dry gardens then this is a great choice to go with. Discover planta from around the world that can survive in the driest of situations.
Kew - Parched by Philip Clayton | Waterstones
Beautiful Bookmarks Nature Inspired
Real Pressed Flowers
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Nature Inspired Book Marks
Nature Magnetic Bookmark, Book gifts for book lovers, Floral patterns, Reading accessories, Bookish gifts, Personalise, Plant design book
Great gift idea
Beautiful copper bookmarks, choose from Sycamore, Ginkgo or Ladybug leaves - make excellent wedding favours!
I love rhese floral bookmarks
Floral Magnetic Bookmark, Bookmark Set, Cute Bookmarks, Reading Accessories, Bookish Gifts, Gifts for readers, Flower Bookmarks, Booktok
Books and Equipment for Composting
Thinking of starting up a composting system to be more sustainable. Then check out my recommendations.
This book is an amazing choice for anybody whether you are a beginner or experienced at composting. There is so much information about all types of systems including home made suggestions to ready made systems. From trench composting to hot bin and...
Composting for a New Generation by Michelle Balz, Anna Stockton | Waterstones
Wildlife
Want to introduce more nesting opportunities in your garden then this book is a great guide.
Nestboxes: Your Complete Guide to Fauna