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Atmosfloric

Sean A Pritchard


Sean Pritchard’s hotly anticipated new book, Atmosfloric: Flower Colour in Home and Garden explores how to grow flowers for colour and bring them indoors for visual impact and atmosphere.

Colours are considered in three mood-based chapters: Romantic, Energetic and Reflective. For each chapter Sean reveals his favourite flowers to grow (with plant lists and inspirational planting plans) and shows them in a range of inspirational gardens and interiors.


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.


Grow Together

Charles Dowding



No Dig guru Charles Dowding uses 40 years of growing experience to recommend which crops to grow successfully together, how to time it right, and how to harvest in particular ways, to grow the tastiest, pest-free crops as space-efficiently as possible.

Carrots between lettuces, fennel between spinach, garlic interplanted with coriander, broad beans around asparagus, cucumbers between peas and strawberries: 50 different proven combinations are shared to help you get the most from growing crops in tune with the seasons, the soil community, and wider environment.


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 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.


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