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New Container Style (compact paperback) New Container Style (compact paperback)
 NEW CONTAINER STYLE COMPACT EDITION
by Celia Brooks Brown

Photography by Francesca Yorke

Creatively planted containers can look good absolutely anywhere: on a doorstep, a windowsill, a roof terrace, or in a garden large or small. In New Container Style, award-winning garden designer and artist Adam Caplin introduces a fresh and imaginative twist to this type of gardening: wonderful plants matched with pots that can be found in your kitchen cupboard, a junk shop or even in your own back yard.From galvanized steel buckets to old wine boxes, from a collection of tomato tins to a row of brightly coloured plastic tubs, there is a great range of affordable and innovative containers to suit any style of garden. Adam explains how to choose the right pot for your purpose and the right plant for your pot. He offers a mass of original ideas for using discarded containers in materials as diverse as metal, plastic, wicker and glass to make your garden a more beautiful place. A directory of the authors favourite plants for containers, including maintenance tips, completes the horticultural feast.
 

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A Handful of Herbs (paperback) A Handful of Herbs (paperback)
 A HANDFUL OF HERBS COMPACT
by Rose Hammick, Barbara Segall and Louise Pickford

Photography by Caroline Arber

A Handful of Herbs opens with illuminating profiles of 20 of the most popular varieties, including basil, lavender, rosemary and thyme. The subject of Growing Herbs is then explored in detail by Barbara Segall, with essential advice about cultivation in beds, borders and containers. Living with Herbs presents a wealth of creative ideas by Rose Hammick for making the most of herbs in every room in the home, and there are recipes for simple beauty and therapeutic treatments using herbs. There are also 35 easy recipes by Louise Pickford for cooking with herbs, covering everything from snacks and starters to sweet things, and including infused oils, herb butters and refreshing herbal drinks. Finally, an AZ of 75 common herbs by Barbara Segall summarizes essential information about each plants character, cultivation and growing habits, and the book concludes with an indispensable directory of suppliers.
 

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New Kitchen Garden (Paperback) New Kitchen Garden (Paperback)
 NEW KITCHEN GARDEN
by Adam Caplin and Celia Brooks Brown

Photography by Caroline Hughes

New in Paperback
Nothing beats the flavour of home-grown produce. With down-to-earth advice from Adam Caplin, discover the satisfaction of growing your own herbs, vegetables and fruit organically — and harvesting them to make delicious, healthy meals. Adam focuses on plants that are easy to grow and shows how creating a kitchen garden can be simple, and possible even if your outdoor space is no more than a patio. Kitchen Garden Basics covers getting started and explains why the organic approach produces such satisfying results. The core of the book — Gardening with Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit — profiles all the popular varieties of edibles, grouped by type, and looks in detail at their virtues and cultivation requirements. Adam also looks at the plants' decorative qualities, showing how they can be grown on their own in beds and containers, in mixed borders, and combined with flowers, for their ornamental as well as their nutritional value. The gardening advice is followed by 35 mouthwatering vegetarian recipes from Celia Brooks Brown.
 

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Beds and Borders Beds and Borders
 BEDS & BORDERS
by Richard Bird

This beautiful book by Richard Bird presents a host of inspiring ideas for creating beds and borders in your garden, whether you have a small courtyard or an acre. Effective and atmospheric planting solutions are revealed in 20 step-by-step projects from the classic mixed herbaceous border to single-colour beds, from a formal rose bed to an informal woodland edge each simple enough to complete in a weekend.
 

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Pure Style Outside (compact paperback) Pure Style Outside (compact paperback)
 PURE STYLE OUTSIDE (COMPACT) by Jane Cumberbatch

In 'Pure Style Outside', Jane Cumberbatch takes her accessible style outside the house to help you make the most of your garden space whether it is a modest city balcony or roof terrace, a shady courtyard or a rambling country garden. With beautiful photographs by Pia Tryde, 'Pure Style Outside' presents a multitude of practical ideas for furnishing, and living in, outdoor spaces.
Inspirational suggestions for all the elements that make up a garden including colour and lighting, texture, surfaces, boundaries, containers and even the contents of the potting shed are complemented by the authors favourite selection of flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, and other plants. Jane then explains how to put all the elements together to make a beautiful and welcoming environment in which to relax in comfort with a book or entertain family and friends.
 

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New Country Garden (compact paperback) New Country Garden (compact paperback)
 NEW COUNTRY GARDEN (COMPACT) by Elspeth Thompson, photography by Melanie Eclare

New Country Garden explores a gardening style that can work in a small urban back yard or a spacious rural retreat. Plants remain at the heart of these gardens, but are used in strikingly new ways with a wild mix of height, scale and colour that breaks all the old rules. Traditional cottage garden flowers meet bold, architectural plants; colours are stronger; evergreens come in new, graphic shapes.
 

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