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Book recommendation for a gift for someone with their first garden

HalsterHalster Posts: 11
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Hello, I would like to buy my friend a nice general gardening book - she has been a keen container/windowsill gardener in her flat but will soon be moving to a house with a small garden. The book will be part of her 50th birthday present so ideally I would like it to look a bit special. Any recommendations?

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  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    edited June 2021
    I don’t have it but it looks pretty good on Amazon, not sure if it will be special enough — the RHS Small Garden Handbook: Making the Most of Your Outdoor Space (hardcover)
    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
     anything by Carol Klein she is so good at no nonsense explaining
  • HalsterHalster Posts: 11
    Great! Thank you all!
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Alan Titchmarsh's How to be a Gardener, if you can still get it. One of the best books for a new gardener (and not so new!) that I've ever read.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2021
    Lizzie27 said:
    Alan Titchmarsh's How to be a Gardener, if you can still get it. One of the best books for a new gardener (and not so new!) that I've ever read.

    This gets lots of recommends from people on the forum.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Readers Digest 'Food from your Garden' can be picked up on Amazon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    If your friend likes colourful planting I like Sarah Raven's Bold and Brilliant Garden. I leaf through it often. It's a colour inspiration, more than a "how to" guide.  There are lots of second hand copies available if new is too expensive.
  • HalsterHalster Posts: 11
    Some great ideas, thank you. Trying to resist buying them for myself too!
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Making a Garden by Carol Klein, or her Life in a Cottage Garden, would be my recommendation for general inspiration peppered with practical advice. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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