How to grow and harvest an abundant supply of edible ingredients from your garden Flowers have probably been used in cooking for as long as people have been preparing and flavoring food. In China cooks were experimenting with chive flowers in 3000 BC and the Romans frequently added blooms to their dishes. Today flowers are often seen as an exotic extra, employed only by professional chefs. While we are all taking a greater interest in the prov...
Coton Manor Garden was voted winner of the UK's Favorite Garden in 2022 by garden visitors in conjunction with the English Garden magazine and National Gardens Scheme. This beautifully illustrated book shows how it has achieved this coveted status. Owner and hands-on gardener Susie Pasley-Tyler charts how her passion for gardening developed and imparts the knowledge learnt, mistakes made and above all the sheer delight to be gained from this c...
Be inspired to turn your own urban corner green, no matter how small your space Former banker Sara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in West London into an urban smallholding, 'Hen Corner'. In this book she shares her journey to self-sufficiency. In sections headed Make, Grow, Preserve, Keep and Celebrate, the book explores: our power and responsibilities as consumerswhat you need to do to grow your own for the family table, wh...
Revised and updated paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of a unique couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of art, gardening and cookery
Rethinking our relationship with plants in the light of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, and an exploration of the science behind sustainable ways of engaging with the natural world
Isabel Bannerman reflects on the gardens she and her husband, Julian, have made together for the various houses in which they have lived, and the garden they are making now, at Ashington Manor in Somerset
The winner of the 2021 'My Chelsea Garden' Judges' Choice Gold Medal Award shows you how to create your own indoor garden - even if space is tight and you have no prior experience of plants at all