The Ten-Minute Gardener's Flower-Growing Diary


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What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed flower gardener should do to ensure success? Which plants should you grow and which varieties will guarantee color, interest, and fragrance throughout the year? What are the most important things you need to know to keep your garden healthy, pest-free, bountiful, and beautiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful, for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments, this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.




The Ten-Minute Gardener


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'Will delight every gardener' - BBC Gardener's World The perfect book for those who garden in snatched moments from the Garden Media Guild Awards 2020 Journalist of the Year Whether you have a spacious plot or a small patch in the garden, this handbook is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand. It offers practical month-by-month suggestions for making the most of the little time you can spare on both the coldest winter days and the long summer afternoons, with ideas to inspire even the most experienced allotment gardeners. Focusing on the essentials needed to produce a great crop, this is for those who want to but struggle to find the time to grow their own. *Combined and updated editions of The Ten Minute Gardener's Fruit-Growing Diary and The Ten Minute Gardener's Vegetable-Growing Diary*




The Ten-Minute Gardener's Vegetable-Growing Diary


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What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed vegetable gardener should do to ensure success? Which vegetables should you grow and which varieties will guarantee color, interest, and fragrance throughout the year? What are the most important things you need to know to make your crop blight-free, healthy, and plentiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful, for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments, this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.




The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hardy Geraniums


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Hardy geraniums are an undeniable asset in the garden - not only do they produce flowers in a wide variety of colours, but they also have equally varied growing habits, ensuring them popularity among all gardeners and a suitability for almost any garden. Within this guide geranium enthusiasts and amateur gardeners alike will find helpful instruction on where and how to plant the best varieties, and how to use them in association with a range of other plants. Specially written features by Roy Lancaster and Bill Baker as well as contributions from enthusiasts from all over the world, together with introductions to the best of the national collections, serve as an irresistible inspiration to the armchair gardener. With glorious colour photographs and detailed line drawings this is a visual feast for gardeners of all levels of interest.




The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom


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A comprehensive, richly illustrated reference on how to grow plants from seed provides everything a gardener needs to know about germinating, growing, and cultivating more than five hundred different types of flowering plants, furnishing essential information on light, soil, spacing requirements, climate, general plant care, and propagation, with quick-reference charts covering more than one thousand species. Original.




Gardener's Journal


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This journal introduces each month with a key concept to guide gardeners.his record book features the 12 Hobhouse "rules" for good gardening, theirst of which is to keep personal notes of gardens visited, of plants seennd plants bought, of setbacks as well as successes.;She reminds gardeners ofhe pleasures as well as the value of recording seasonal changes in thearden, of noting tasks accomplished and jobs to be done. Photographs show aide range of successful gardens, from Butterstream in Ireland to West Deann Sussex and Penelope Hobhouse's own garden in Dorset. Penelope Hobhouse ishe author of "Colour in Your Garden", "Garden Style", "The Country Gardener",Flower Gardens" and "Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening".










Gardeners' Chronicle


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