I love Helen Yemm's "Gardening in your Nightie" and the follow on ones. She's very hands on but funny with it.
Also have just acquired 1001 Garden Boosters (Readers Digest) and their Seasonal Guides (Early Spring, Spring, Summer, etc) quite useful.
Have actually just nipped downstairs to look at my bookshelves, got 3 just on gardening and have over flowed onto the carpet! Charity shops are a brilliant source of gardening books as you can pick them up at reasonable prices, read them and recycle the ones you don't want.
Thanks for all the feedback everyone, sorry for my delayed response. The book 'The Ivington Diaries' by Monty Don which I ordered arrived yesterday so I've began reading that, so far so good
I shall check out each and every suggestion later today and compile a wish list, I have already added 'The Well Tempered Garden' to my Christmas Wish List and the book by Carol Klein about propagating is something I am considering when I have a few more pennies.
We do have a few charity shops around so when I go into town tomorrow I may pop in them for a nosy too and see if I can spot any there.
Thanks again and I hope some of you have found some good ideas too, oh and if you can think of any more .... add them to the thread
Another author to look out for is Sir Roy Strong who has written several highly regarded books on gardening. I love this Amazon blurb on his book The Laskett : the story of a garden
"This is the story of one man and a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. Over 30 years later they find themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden made in this country since 1945, a garden that has increasingly become recognized as one of the most important laid out in the second half of the 20th century. And yet it was created not only with little money and less labour, but quite unconsciously. But it is not so much the horticultural triumph that will grip the reader as what this garden on the Welsh Borders in Herefordshire has come to mean in the lives of its creators. "The Laskett" is the tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and as the habitat of memory."
I've not read it yet, but it's another one for the list
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove your post reminded me of another book I've got, dunno if NGCARDS would like it as it's not really about gardening does have some pics and references to Sissinghurst the author Nigel Nicholson lives there, he is the youngest son of Vita Sachville-West & Harold Nicolson. The Portrait of a Marriage (Illustrated edition)
Hello all last Christmas my o/h bought me a book called " How to grow your own fruit & veg " , a week-by-week guide to wild life friendly fruit and veg gardening by Joe Hashman
What I have been doing is read week by week has been really interesting
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This site was a good idea , I have tagged in favourits on my iPad
I will have make a note of some of these books and have a look
when I get home I will put a couple of suggestions on hear , keep names of books coming
Oh - well done Pansyface - I forgot Anna Pavord's Curious Gardener - loved that one too
I love Helen Yemm's "Gardening in your Nightie" and the follow on ones. She's very hands on but funny with it.
Also have just acquired 1001 Garden Boosters (Readers Digest) and their Seasonal Guides (Early Spring, Spring, Summer, etc) quite useful.
Have actually just nipped downstairs to look at my bookshelves, got 3 just on gardening and have over flowed onto the carpet! Charity shops are a brilliant source of gardening books as you can pick them up at reasonable prices, read them and recycle the ones you don't want.
Thanks for all the feedback everyone, sorry for my delayed response. The book 'The Ivington Diaries' by Monty Don which I ordered arrived yesterday so I've began reading that, so far so good
I shall check out each and every suggestion later today and compile a wish list, I have already added 'The Well Tempered Garden' to my Christmas Wish List and the book by Carol Klein about propagating is something I am considering when I have a few more pennies.
We do have a few charity shops around so when I go into town tomorrow I may pop in them for a nosy too and see if I can spot any there.
Thanks again and I hope some of you have found some good ideas too, oh and if you can think of any more .... add them to the thread
Another author to look out for is Sir Roy Strong who has written several highly regarded books on gardening. I love this Amazon blurb on his book The Laskett : the story of a garden
"This is the story of one man and a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. Over 30 years later they find themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden made in this country since 1945, a garden that has increasingly become recognized as one of the most important laid out in the second half of the 20th century. And yet it was created not only with little money and less labour, but quite unconsciously. But it is not so much the horticultural triumph that will grip the reader as what this garden on the Welsh Borders in Herefordshire has come to mean in the lives of its creators. "The Laskett" is the tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and as the habitat of memory."
I've not read it yet, but it's another one for the list
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove your post reminded me of another book I've got, dunno if NGCARDS would like it as it's not really about gardening does have some pics and references to Sissinghurst the author Nigel Nicholson lives there, he is the youngest son of Vita Sachville-West & Harold Nicolson. The Portrait of a Marriage (Illustrated edition)
I found a gardening book written by Vita Sackville-West in a charity shop. Must make this my winter reading
Thanks for all the responses, it's been great checking out everyone suggestions
Hello all last Christmas my o/h bought me a book called " How to grow your own fruit & veg " , a week-by-week guide to wild life friendly fruit and veg gardening by Joe Hashman
What I have been doing is read week by week has been really interesting
Happy reading everybody