Gardening

Beer is one of the most complex alcoholic drinks with some beers having more than thirty ingredients and most of them requiring the proper mixture and amounts of the right hops, malts, and herbs to taste just right.

Happy by Design teaches us how we can actively improve our health and wellbeing through the way we design our living spaces.

Glasshouse Greenhouse fuses together cultures and countries under one glass roof.

The lily is an emotive flower, with cultural connotations of romance, remembrance, love and innocence.

Underestimated for too long as just a shrub for cottage gardens, the hydrangea is experiencing a renaissance in floral design.

This book is for anyone who wants to get onto and climb the property ladder.

A Nipper's Tale is the delightful biography of Alan Rampling who spent most of his working life doing something he loved - gardening.

The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities can often be regarded as part of a heritage landscape.

The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities can often be regarded as part of a heritage landscape.

The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscapers, but has produced some spectacular walled and terraced gardens.

The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscapers, but has produced some spectacular walled and terraced gardens.

Trees are now in the public eye as never before.

Trees are now in the public eye as never before.

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area.

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area.

Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles.

Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles.

This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe.

This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe.

This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management.

This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management.

This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them.

This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them.

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.

Planting Plans for Your Kitchen Garden gives you all you need to turn your back garden into a productive paradise with modular planting plans for simple beds of vegetables, herbs, fruit and cut flowers.

A new edition of Nicola Shulman's miniature masterpiece about the life of gardener Reginald Farrer A hundred years ago, there was a revolution in British gardening, as the garden changed from being a diversion of dukes to the hobby of millions.

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort".

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort".

It Began in a Simple Garden .

For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the bible for New Zealand beekeepers.

*THE ORIGINAL ALMANAC*'Lia Leendertz's classic almanac never fails to delight' - The Herald'It's a perfect Christmas present' - Allan Jenkins, The ObserverA perfect toolkit for connecting with the world around us and the year ahead as it unfolds - all in a compact and pocket size guide that just begs you to pick it up and browse.

Reconnect with the seasons in Britain and Ireland with this month-by-month guide to the world around us - including key dates, tide tables and garden tasks; constellations and moon phases; sunrises, folk songs, seasonal recipes plus a 'bun of the month'; and - because 2023 will be a good year for planet spotting - the solar system and the zodiac.

This book presents a chronological review of garden design which both simplifies the big picture and supplies a rationale, with examples, of the merits and demerits of each design period while reflecting on the social conditions which generated each one.

In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner and farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series.

Alan Titchmarsh has had a passion for gardening for as long as he can remember.

Many crops, including herbs, can be produced in a relatively small space with a little pre-planning and organizing: in containers, on a balcony, and indoors.

This book is full of inspiration and practical advice on cultivating a kitchen herb garden,and on using its fresh,home-grown herbs in your cooking.

Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables.

How to cultivate a lot of home-grown vegetables from the smallest possible space.

The Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden takes its readers through the fruit and vegetable gardening year, listing month-by-month the tasks to be done and showing in original hand-drawn illustrations exactly how to do them.

A compelling call to change the way we think about gardening and growing food, Nettles & Petals by ecological horticulturist and social media sensation Jamie Walton is the only guide you need to make your garden more sustainable.

Where do camels belong?

Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline.

In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief.

When Valentine Low decided to forego his world of dinner parties with the chattering classes to take on a pastime usually indulged in by old men with flat caps and rollups, he had little idea of the sea change it would bring about in his life.