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A shelf of garden books

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  • Forester_PeteForester_Pete Posts: 175
    Have a dedicated space for garden and outdoor books in the conservatory now, but still too much free space. Maybe Santa will be good to me this year and reduce the free space.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Lizzie27 said:

     ....really amusing ones by Helen Yemm including Gardening in your Nightie.

    "Helen Yemm" - now there's a name I recognise from the past. I'm sure she used to present a gardening programme on the telly. 
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    The first gardening book I ever had was one by C. Lucas Phillips. The Small Garden.Oddly I do not seem to have it any longer.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I'm pretty sure I still have that one, @Palustris... it's a while since I looked at it though.  My garden has grown larger (ie I've moved from my small garden!).
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I only know of Helen Yemm from her stints as the Telegraph's garden agony aunt/feature writer a while back. Still miss her amusing articles. A very down to earth, no nonsense gardener with a wealth of knowledge.
    She was kind enough to advise me on a particular gardening problem I had at the time and featured it in the paper - fame at last!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    No photo but we have a big collection...not though as many as others are showing.
    Many of ours are old editions but we still access them. They give great advice but cannot give info to the "new" varities.
    We would not be without them.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Helen Yemm did a wonderful, practical garden programme in the 80s or 90s where she took a few gardeners and helped them through a gardening season with reclaiming/renovating and just generally optimising inherited garden spaces.   It was really informative, attainable, inspiring but also relaxing to watch.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Wasn't she the one who did a series on small front gardens?
    Southampton 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I wish I'd seen them @Obelixx but was really only getting into gardening in the 80s.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited November 2021


    Here’s some of mine 📚📚📚

    The first pic is my collection of what I think of as Garden literature- not how-to books but writing about gardening related stuff, mostly by people who really know how to wield a pen as well as a shovel.

    Reading The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson at the moment - fascinating, optimistic and terrifying in equal measure….would recommend 
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