Gardening

Gardening

Gardening

Gardening

Gardening books, greenhouses, patio gardens to gardeners like Gertrude Jekyll and Inigo Jones, British parks and public gardens.

 

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: Great British Village Show
THANE PRINCE & MATTHEW BIGGS    Book Number: 89834
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Hardback

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Packed with advice from the queen of preserves Thane Prince and gardening guru Matthew Biggs, here are prize-winning recipes and interviews with show veterans. Fruit, vegetables, flowers, cakes, c...
HUT OF ONE'S OWN:
EMILY CHAPPELL    Book Number: 91298
Published price: £12
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Allotments are places to grow food but they are so much more than that - places to encourage spontaneity, exploration, learning, sharing, restful activity and camaraderie. The book is a celebratio...
RHS A NATION IN BLOOM
MATTHEW BIGGS    Book Number: 91427
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback

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We may think we know the Royal Horticultural Society through its gardens at Wisley, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor and Harlow Carr, its flower shows including the world-famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show, its pre...
RHS DO BEES NEED WEEDS?: A Gardener's Collection
GARETH RICHARD & HOLLY FARRELL    Book Number: 91498
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback

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Can a polytunnel be eco-friendly? Is it better to grow native veg than try exotics? What is vegan gardening? Are traditional herb gardens eco-friendly? How can I attract bees and other pollinat...
PUBLIC PARKS, PRIVATE GARDENS - PARIS TO PROVENCE
COLTA IVES    Book Number: 91386
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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With masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, many of these artists were themselves gardeners and they painted parks and...
HOW TO COOK COMPOST
SUSANNA GEOGHEGAN    Book Number: 91607
Published price: £5.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Making compost provides a simple and rewarding means of recycling all but a tiny amount of the organic waste we produce. Even without a compost bin you can use a piece of old carpet or sacking to ...
PLANTHUNTER: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants
GEORGINA REID    Book Number: 91612
Published price: £28
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback

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A spectacular Thames & Hudson heavyweight publication with bright yellow cloth spine binding, the author began an online publication of the same name where questions about the relationship between ...
WASTELAND: A History
VITTORIA DI PALMA    Book Number: 91675
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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Beautifully illustrated, this multi-award winning work conjoins the resources of art history, landscape and garden studies, the history of science and more disciplines still in a scholarly synthesi...
GET UP AND GROW
LUCY HUTCHINGS    Book Number: 91924
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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Herb, vegetable and fruit growing projects for both indoors and outdoors, from the modern and inspiring garden writer Lucy Hutchings of She Grows Veg fame. Through clever uses of space and contain...
URBAN VEGETABLE PATCH
GRACE PAUL    Book Number: 91949
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.25
Product format: Hardback

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Make your own green oasis and enjoy the delicious taste of your own fresh produce. Sub-titled 'A Modern Guide to Growing Sustainably, Whatever Your Space' to save money and for your own wellbeing ...
GARDENS OF THE NATIONAL TRUST: Three DVD Box Set
DUKE MARKETING    Book Number: 91981
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Alan Titchmarsh visits six of England's most beautiful gardens in volume one. They include Killerton in Devon, Barrington Court in Somerset, Peckover House in Cambridge, Dunham Massey in Cheshire,...
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORCHIDS
BRIAN & WILMA RITTERSHAUSEN    Book Number: 92099
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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A complete guide to orchids and their cultivation, these flamboyant, intriguing, beautiful and exotic plants have evolved to become the largest family of plants in the world. This classic book wri...
GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE
BRYAN KEENE    Book Number: 92012
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £4.75
Product format: Hardback

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A rare import from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, where the author is a curatorial assistant and an instructor in art history. His research interests include Italian and French manuscript ...
WEATHER DETECTIVE: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN    Book Number: 92043
Published price: $20
Bibliophile price: £4.25
Product format: Hardback

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Bestselling author of 'The Hidden Life of Trees' Wohlleben invites us to reconnect with nature. As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds us. Thousands of small and large processes are...
GARDEN WILDLIFE: Revealing Your Garden's Secrets
GERARD CHISHIRE    Book Number: 92161
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Paperback

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Put yourself in the paws of the wildlife visiting your garden and soak up the sunshine with the plants. This colourful, intelligent book reveals the secrets of the garden and, by sharing its insigh...
WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WILD FLOWERS AND FLORA
MICK LAVELLE    Book Number: 92119
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Paperback

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The Natural floral jewellery that adorns so much of the Earth's surface has enraptured scientists, artists, writers and naturalists throughout our history, yet it is easy to forget the true depth o...
LITTLE BOOK OF BONSAI
MATTHEW PUNTIGAM    Book Number: 92349
Published price: £10
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback

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Bonsai is the Japanese art of caring for trees and these miniature trees represent the next level of plant parenthood. When given the right care they can be rewarding to grow and here is a marvell...
RARE PLANTS: Kew Book and 40 Frameable Prints
ED IKIN    Book Number: 92549
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sourced from the archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and with an illuminating text by the Deputy Director of Kew's Wild Botanic Garden at Wakehurst, this is a luxury boxed set containing the...
TREES: Broadleaf and Conifer Models: Haynes Manual
KENTON ROGERS & TONY KIRKHAM    Book Number: 92622
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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Why a manual for trees? The answer is that 60%-70% of trees in our urban environment are privately owned, and the authors were surprised to find there was no manual of planting and maintenance desi...
GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE
BRYAN KEENE    Book Number: 92664
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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'You should have gardens where you can stroll and, on occasion, host banquets...where you can arrange rare and exotic plants with care. In these places, you can especially appreciate the careful ar...
CONTAINER GARDENS
PETER MCHOY AND S. DONALDSON    Book Number: 92751
Bibliophile price: £10.50
Product format: Hardback

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Edible and scented collections, difficult situations, inspirational containers and young container gardeners, decorating containers and colour schemes, seasonal planters, here is all about success ...
ROYAL GARDENS OF THE WORLD: 21 Celebrated Gardens
MARK LANE    Book Number: 92796
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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From the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Fontainebleau Palace, Prague Castle, Het Loo, Frederiksborg and Peterhof Palaces, to Highgrove, Hampton Court, the Royal Botanic Gardens at ...
LILIES: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden
NAOMI SLADE    Book Number: 92851
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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The lily has cultural connotations of romance, remembrance, love and innocence and can be found in literature, art and heraldry across the world where they have added dramatic elegance to gardens f...
ORCHARD: Growing and Cooking Fruit From Your Garden
JANE MCMORLAND HUNTER    Book Number: 92855
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £6.99
Product format: Hardback

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Orchards are one of the oldest and most beautiful types of garden - think of sitting in the gentle shade of a graceful tree and eating a perfect piece of fruit. Whether you fantasise about having ...
RHS HOW DO WORMS WORK?: A Gardener's Collection
GUY BARTER    Book Number: 91499
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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Revised and updated edition (2020) covering seeds and plants, flowers and fruits, below the ground, weather, climate and the seasons, and in the garden with topics like how to keep spiders out of t...