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Looking for a good gardening book
Jason milly
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Any recommendations for a perennial flower book and a vegetable book .
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Search out anything by DR DG Hessayon. I have had some of the books for decades and providing I ignore the advice about spraying everything with the most noxious poisons known to man, the books are very good. They've all been updated by the looks of things (so I'm guessing the insect population is safer now) and are freely available on Amazon (or whichever book seller you favour). Its all solid good sense and the information is easily accessed.....no need to wade through pages and pages of coffee table book pictures whilst searching for the right way to grow carrots or lupins.
Many thanks will have a look .
I like The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. You can get it on Amazon and have a look inside before buying to see if you like it. It is a detailed book on how to care for perennials: pinching, thinning, debudding etc.
Will look Joan thanks .
I've just picked up 'Companion to Scented Plants' by Stephen Lacey. I've only read the first chapter or two and it's amazing. Really makes you think of adding more scent in the garden. So far (!) it seems to cover scented recommendations for perennials, shrubs, trees, herbs etc. One of the few gardening books I've wanted to sit and read through, rather than skim. In fact, the book and a glass of wine is beckoning....
I read 'Grow for Flavour' by James Wong recently, it's not bad and you can read it fast. It advocates treating your veg mean for flavour (a treatment many of the others here on the forum recommend) and gives tips on best varieties, I picked some new veg seeds this year based on it. I can't yet confirm if it was worth it but I'll know by the Autumn!
The RHS Plant Guide: Perennials is a great handbook with lots of information and really good photographs.
Thanks everyone
For Christmas I had Terry Waltons allotment book , he is on Jeremy Vine radio 2 show every Friday , just finished reading it and it was most enjoyable
Other than that I go into a shop called The Works and sometime pick up a discounted Gardening book and Oxfam have a bid book section in Lincoln ( half the shop ) and have picked up the odd book there