Gardening

The productive garden at Lord Rothschild's private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques...

It all began when Simon Griffiths decided that he and his whippet couldn't live in his tiny but gorgeous one-up one-down shopfront in Albert Park any more. He had a...

Filled with lush photography, this practical and accessible guide will show you how to make your garden a place of beauty and inspiration during the winter months, as well as...

A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it s a guide to living both in and out of the garden. The New...

These new titles have just arrived in our best-selling Complete Encyclopedia series. These indispensable references are handy and thorough guides with knowledgeable text and hundreds of full color photographs.

Christine Lister's much-loved bushland garden in suburban Melbourne is the setting for In The Garden of My Delights. Stunning photography of the garden by Brett Foster, over the changing cycle...

You learn a lot about people from their own little piece of the great outdoors...and a lot about a country from its backyards. Native plant diehards who see neighbours' gardens...

Theory and practice go hand in hand in this illustrated book. The Garden takes you through all the stages of gardening, from design or reorganization to the garden of your...

David Joyce looks at a range of garden situations - dry sunny beds, rock gardens or shady borders - and shows how an understanding of the growing conditions and an...

Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia embraces an area that stretches from the Flinders and Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, across Victoria and southern New South Wales to...

A presenter on ABC TV's Gardening Australia for more than 20 years, Colin Campbell was one of Australia's best-known and respected gardening personalities. Garden Talk provides the answers to most...

At its most convincing level, this book shows in awesome detail just what it is that we stand to lose when we fail to vigorously protect and conserve even relatively...

Stunning foliage plants to set off your garden chosen by one of Australia's leading garden design experts, Rosemary Davies. No more trudging through garden nurseries; no more deciphering rain-soaked labels;...

Do you really want to breathe in high concentrations of expensive hazardous chemicals from products such as pest strips and aerosol cans? Frequent chemical pest control can render the air...

This work on companion gardening - the technique of using the beneficial effects that plants growing in close proximity have on each other - is full of imaginative ideas and...

The first in an exciting new series of practical books that will inspire the DIY enthusiast to create professional results in the garden. After guidance through the basic techniques and...

The pleasures and practicalities of making a flower garden are explained in this book. The author gives guidance on planning the garden and on good planting for colour, harmony and...

"Grow"" ""Your"" ""Own"" ""Flowers" is an essential guide to growing hundreds of recommended annual and perennial flowers. The next book in the Grow Your Own series (publishing alongside "Grow Your...

The lily is one of the most beautiful and popular flowers in the garden and despite having a reputation for being "temperamental", lilies can actually be very easy to grow....

Hostas are invaluable foliage plants with their broad leaves providing dramatic clumps of architectural interest in the garden. The sculptural leaves come in many sizes and although many are green,...

The immense number of species and the wide range of possible growing situations of the fern family means that there is a fern to suit most parts of the garden....

If you are one of those people who haven't got time to hang around waiting for your garden to mature, then this is the book for you. It offers stylish...

'- An inspiring and practical guide to making the most of herbs in your garden- Acclaimed gardener and writer George Carter offers 20 simple step-by-step projects for herbal plantings you...

Arne Maynard believes that achieving balance is the key to garden design and in A Sense of Place he shows you how to open your imagination and create a garden...

Gorgeous Garden Boosters will help you transform your garden, whatever its size, into a stunning showcase. On every page, you'll find 'boosters' that are guaranteed to enhance your garden -...

This is a recipe book, but instead of food you'll find unlickable lasagna, mud and seed cupcakes and nature's nachos! Nature play and mud kitchens are fun and a great...

Weeds are plants growing in the wrong place. Here's how to recognize, prevent, eradicate - or learn to live with - your unwelcome guests. Get to the root of any...

Concise profiles of hundreds of trees and shrubs commonly used in home gardens.

A guide to attractive hedges and screens for any front or back yard in all climates.

This series of practical, authoritative guides is overflowing with new ideas for creating luxuriant color in your garden from bold, seasonal bursts of color to subtle, long-lasting effects. Each book...

Each page of this practical book is packed with ideas for using ornamental features to add personality to your garden. A complete range of styles is included - from classic...

The inspiring story of a young garden designer and his hard-working team who take their award-winning garden to challenge the world's most brilliant designers at the International Chelsea Flower and...

1001 Perennials focuses on the plants that are the foundation of every garden. Technically, perennials are any plants that live for more than two years, but generally (and in this...

In this text, John Ferguson and Berkhard Mucke describe a unique approach to gardening in which the rhythm of nature is used to divide the year into nine seasons -...

A practical guide to the art of companion planting. It discusses how to arrive at aesthetically pleasing combinations of colour, texture and form while taking account of the plants' habitat...

A bestselling author's passionate memoir about restoring life to one of the world's greatest gardens Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated...

The book is divided into four main sections, covering stately homes, country houses, dreams and utopias and garden produce, illuminating the history of the French countryside. Photographs reflect the colour...

From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in...

In 2005, Monty Don set up a smallholding where a group of prolific offenders mainly drug addicts - would work on the land. If the project was a success, Monty...