Author: The National Garden Scheme (NGS) Publisher: Constable ISBN: 9781472134110 Category : Languages : en Pages : 744
Book Description
The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,600 exceptional private gardens in England and Wales, and raises impressive amounts of money for nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake. There are always more beautiful gardens to discover, so here's to an exciting year ahead!
Author: The National Garden Scheme (NGS) Publisher: Constable ISBN: 9781408715260 Category : Languages : en Pages : 744
Book Description
The Garden Visitor's Handbook is the famous yellow 'bible' for anyone interested in gardens and the 2021 edition is now available. Its 744 pages contain descriptions of the 3,700 gardens opening to visitors throughout England and Wales this year, and offers people unique access to the most beautiful gardens in the country. Most are privately owned and never otherwise accessible, so the book offers a magical entré to these wonderful domains. Funds raised at the gardens on their open days come from admissions, teas and plant sales and are donated to the National Garden Scheme which in turn donates the net proceeds every year to a group of nursing and health charities. Currently these donations total £3 million annually and, since its foundation in 1927, the National Garden Scheme has given away a whopping £60 million. The main beneficiaries include some of Britain's best-loved charities including Macmillan, Marie Curie, the Queen's Nursing Institute, Hospice UK, Carers Trust, Parkinson's UK and Horatio's Garden.
Author: Just Journals Publisher: ISBN: 9781658053075 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
Whether you enjoy visiting large country estates or tucked away secret gardens this useful handbook will allow you to record and remember up to 40 of your garden visits. Containing a wide variety of sections including: Space for lists of notable plant names, both latin and common names Outstanding garden features Garden sizes Planting styles Garden addresses and contact details for future reference Comments section Plus lots more useful information to record after each garden visit. Your Garden Visits Handbook for 2020 is ideal to look back on for reference or simply for pleasure. A wonderful way to treasure all of your garden visits, wherever they may take you. Also contains space for a Wish List of Future Garden Visits. So helpful when planning your next trip. An ideal gift for the gardener in your life. Perfect for anyone who admires a well-stocked border or a perfectly manicured lawn or who simply enjoys the pleasure of pottering around a tiny, but well designed, open garden.
Author: Jane Armstrong Publisher: ISBN: 9781653141197 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
Whether you enjoy visiting large country estates or tucked away secret gardens this useful handbook will allow you to record and remember up to 40 of your garden visits. Containing a wide variety of sections including: Space for lists of notable plant names, both latin and common names Outstanding garden features Garden sizes Planting styles Garden addresses and contact details for future reference Comments section Plus lots more useful information to record after each garden visit. Your Garden Visits Handbook for 2020 is ideal to look back on for reference or simply for pleasure. A wonderful way to treasure all of your garden visits, wherever they may take you. Also contains space for a Wish List of Future Garden Visits. So helpful when planning your next trip. An ideal gift for the gardener in your life. Perfect for anyone who admires a well-stocked border or a perfectly manicured lawn or who simply enjoys the pleasure of pottering around a tiny, but well designed, open garden.
Author: The Editors of Sunset Publisher: Sunset ISBN: 9780376039217 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
As surely as gardens change with the seasons, gardening is ever changing. New plants, techniques, materials, and lifestyles are constantly broadening the choices you have and reshaping the way you garden in the West. In response to this natural evolution, the editors of Sunset-the West's most trusted source of gardening information for more than 80 years-have completely redesigned and updated The Western Garden Book in this new 2012 Ninth Edition. Following the best-selling success of the previous editions of The Western Garden Book, this edition includes a fresh new look, thousands of color photographs, fresh illustrations, and an easy-to-follow format. Written by experts for gardeners in the West, this book is an indispensable reference for beginning and expert gardeners alike. The New Western Garden Book features include: A photo gallery shows the West's most innovative gardens, from all-edibles front yards to stylish water-wise and fire-wise gardens to living walls and green roofs-all with ideas you can use. Climate Zone Maps and growing-season graphs for all regions of the West including Alaska and Hawaii. A new "Plant Finder" section helps you choose plants for their garden's problem areas or for special effects. "A to Z Plant Encyclopedia" lists some 8,000 plants that thrive in the West, including more than 500 new ones. Gorgeous color photographs illustrate all plant entries-for the first time ever in The Western Garden Book. "Gardening From Start to Finish" is a new visual guide that leads readers through all steps of making a garden, from soil prep through planting, growing and care, with special sections on natives, veggies, grasses and more.
Author: Alan Titchmarsh Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448141346 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World for seven years, Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road, and went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden, explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design and evolution. Accompanied by beautiful photographs taken by Jonathan Buckley throughout the eight years in which the garden has been made, My Secret Garden allows us access to all of the successes and failures of this diverse and ambitious project. Comprising many different styles and spaces - from an acre of formal beds and ponds to wild flower meadows and a stunning winter garden - Alan's tales of development and cultivation will be applicable to all gardeners. With the plot encompassing fruit trees, a handsome greenhouse and wildlife-friendly plantings, gardeners of all styles and levels of expertise will find something to enjoy. Driven by Alan's infectious and informative style, My Secret Garden is a fascinating, amusing and inspiring book.
Author: Jessica Francis Kane Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525559248 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship, family, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven The national bestseller and an Indie Next List pick Name a Best Book of the Year by O Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Real Simple • Vulture • Chicago Tribune Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Today Show • Good Morning America • Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Southern Living Shortlisted for the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Long-listed for the 2020 Tournament of Books Dry, witty, and unapologetic, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. Smart, funny, and full of compassion, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. With simplicity and honesty, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book, with its beautiful contemplation of travel, trees, family, and friendship, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times.
Author: Margaret Roach Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604699175 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 640
Book Description
“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 York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Author: Margery Fish Publisher: Batsford Books ISBN: 1849949611 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
An elegant new edition of a classic book from one of the twentieth century's greatest garden writers. This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has rarely been out of print since. We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, one of the leading British gardeners of the mid-20th century, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. Quirky and readable, this book details her creation of a world-renowned cottage garden, as well as her battles with Walter in the process, who preferred the standard suburban approach. In this beautiful and timeless work, she recounts the trials and tribulations, the successes and failures of her venture with ease and humour. Topics covered are colourful and diverse, ranging from the most suitable hyssop for the terraced garden through composting, hedges and making paths to the best time to lift and replant tulip bulbs. This book has been hailed as everything from a blueprint for the creation of a modern cottage garden to a feminist manifesto, and the author's practical knowledge, imaginative ideas and general good sense will encourage and inspire gardeners everywhere.
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