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Gardening

A Year of Cut Flowers

Sarah Raven



Tips, tricks and everything you could possibly wish to know about planning, growing and arranging your own cutting garden from the queen of cut flowers, Sarah Raven.

Sarah shares the secrets she has evolved over decades at Perch Hill to keep cut flower production nearly constant, from the start of the growing year to the end. With her unparalleled expertise up your sleeve, you’ll have a house full of flowers conditioned to last well in a vase, and an abundant garden always brimming with colour.


My Gardening Life

Mary Berry



More than a memoir. A lifetime of gardening inspiration.

Well-known and celebrated as a cookery writer and presenter, in My Gardening Life Mary Berry shares her second great love: gardening. From a passion that was sparked in her childhood as she helped her father in their vegetable patch, gardening has become a source of great joy to Mary.

Full of anecdotes, pearls of wisdom, and beautiful photos of Mary’s own garden, My Gardening Life is a unique memoir told through the gardens Mary has loved. As she says, “In another life, I may have been a gardener.”


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The Kindest Garden

Marian Boswall


A step-up from sustainable gardening, which focuses on minimising our impact on the earth, regenerative gardening is about making an active contribution to the health of the planet. Whether you have a shady patio, a large plot of land or a windowsill - you can make an impact.

Drawing on lessons from forward-thinking farmers, foresters, re-wilders and nature itself, The Kindest Garden shows you how to create a garden that is both a beautiful sanctuary for yourself and a place where nature can thrive.


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The Green Fuse

Peter Dale


Why do interiors of houses mimic nature - the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?


The Green Fuse explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia and myth.

It connects gardens with the other arts - painting, music, literature and theatre - and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance.