Choosing colours for a crafting project can be daunting and creating colour palettes is a design task in itself but textile designer Karen Barbe's explanations makes it a fun and enjoyable part of the process
Brings together the sharp wit and the straight-talking wisdom of the man widely credited as the inventor of the modern garden
A photographic record of the gardens at Great Dixter, past and present
Learn how to kickstart your creativity and become confident at making your own colourful and expressive designs using applique and embroidery on felted wool fabric
A reissue of Beth Chatto's classic, redesigned, with a new afterword by David Ward, Garden and Nursery Director at Beth Chatto's Garden and a new introduction by Beth Chatto.
The long-awaited first book by "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design"
A reissue of Christopher Lloyd's classic book, with an extensive introduction by Fergus Garrett and stunning new photography
Explores the life and work of Gertrude Jekyll, probably the most influential garden designer of the early twentieth century
How, during the Second World War, Vita Sackville-West and a small group of rose lovers, realizing that heritage roses were endangered, set out to rescue them - for themselves and for posterity
A real-time, fully illustrated, step-by-step personal account of an amateur enthusiast creating a cottage garden - at the same time showing you how you too can create the garden of your dreams.
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 provenance of our food, adding more plant-based ingredients to our diets, experimenting with growing our own vegetables and eating to follow the seasons, edible flowers remain a bit of an unknown quantity. This book demystifies the idea of eating flowers and introduces readers to a whole range of blooms, leaves, flowering herbs and edible seeds that can be home-grown and used in a new way - by adding them to food. From drying hibiscus petals to concocting a soothing tisane, harvesting nigella seeds to use in savory biscuits, or baking a lemon-scented pelargonium cake, garden-grown flowers make wonderful ingredients - and align directly with the important current message of seasonal, sustainable growing. Dunster shows how to grow an abundance of flowers to guarantee a regular and plentiful supply of chemical-free ingredients. Includes information on harvesting, drying and preserving methods, and a wide range of culinary uses and techniques.
Applying the science of ecology to wildlife promotion and conservation in gardens.
This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha's favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard). The author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels - notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer's block to complete her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.
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, whether you have a garden or a window boxhow to keep seasonal produce all year roundoptions for keeping bees and hens and the joys and responsibilities that entailsmarking the highlights of the year with delicious recipes for family and friends Throughout Sara includes her tried and tested recipes for specialty breads, marmalade and preserves, cordials, sausages, cheese, fermenting foods, cider, wine and liqueurs, beeswax products, soaps and balms.
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
Inventive, eco ways to decorate your home, save money and help look after the planet, in step-by-step fully illustrated projects
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 first major reappraisal of the life and work of watercolourist and war artist Thomas Hennell in over thirty years
Reveals the how and the why of the compost heap and the important role it plays in the garden.
The story of how the 6th Duke of Bedford and his second wife, Georgina Gordon, became intimately involved with the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment, the joys of Romantic poetry and painting - and the leading figures of both worlds
The story of how Xa Tollemache re-created the garden at Helmingham Hall, in Suffolk - and became a garden designer
"This poignant and revealing memoir adds vital new dimensions to our understanding of Mann, as both artist and human being." - Mark Hudson, art critic, Independent
40 activities to inspire families to get creative and engage with nature without leaving home
A timely reissue featuring 101 recipes for using wild berries, fruits, nuts, flowers, mushrooms and seaweed.
Scent Magic author Isabel Bannerman's selection of favourite pieces evoking the scent of plants, stunningly illustrated with her unique botanical photographs
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