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Kew Garden has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ranking it alongside Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. It receives over a million visitors a year and has been voted the UK's favourite garden. Accompanying a new BBC2 series, A Year at Kew is a month-by-month journey through the world's greatest botanical garden, following the work of Kew's committed team of experts in the gardens and glass houses, laboratories and libraries that give Kew its reputation as a centre of scientific excellence. Each monthly chapter looks at what's currently in flower at Kew, what's being planted or removed, names a plant of the month and takes an in-depth look at one of the special activities going on - everything from research field trips to garden parties. Day-in-the-life diaries of some of the stars from the television series capture the magic of the garden, and the year is punctuated with a series of hugely popular seasonal festivals and exhibitions. Beautifully illustrated and with extensive behind-the-scenes access, A Year At Kew captures the passion and commitment that goes into the garden and offers a unique look at this much-loved institution. Featuring a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, himself a former student at Kew.

A Year in Christine's Garden is about the extraordinarily ordinary life of a truly unique woman and her irrepressible passion for gardening. In both her TV series and this month-by-month diary, Christine takes us on a charming journey through life, the universe and most importantly, gardening.Recounting the tales of the people she meets, her octogenarian neighbours, the trips she goes on - usually accompanied by her dog Tara, the book paints a picture of her life as a gardener and is interwoven with lots of practical advise and tips for the reader.

"A Year in Christine's Garden" is the utterly down-to-earth account of one woman's passion for plants. Recounting stories from her hectic life in horticulture, Christine Walkden's diary is a heartwarming account of octogenarian neighbours, living with a film crew and helping friends with their gardening needs. Reflecting all the charm of her BBC2 television series, Christine's narrative paints a picture of the day-to-day beauty that surrounds her. She likes being outside, she likes walking her dog Tara, she likes watching the light change and she enjoys those little moments when everything seems right in the world. With irrepressible enthusiasm, she interweaves tips and advice to prove that the best gardens are approachable and achievable. Forget fashion, forget trends - Christine's garden is about no-nonsense planting and growing what you enjoy. As the year progresses, this warm, but frank diary brings to life all the moments of pride, excitement, relaxation and laugh-out-loud fun that make Christine's garden a haven of contentment.

There's no great mystery to being a successful gardener - most of it is just plain common sense - but an appreciation of the natural world at work in our gardens will certainly help. The culmination of years of experience, Alan has distilled his knowledge and passion for the subject into the two volumes of How to be a Gardener. In Book 1 he sets out the basic principles of gardening and in Book 2 he builds on this with expert advice on planting and design. Both books stand alone but together they provide a complete reference manual for any garden owner

Alan is back with this second volume which looks in depth at all areas of designing and planting to ensure you make the most of your garden. Alan's love of gardening and years of experience designing gardens really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design and plants, the chapters include boundaries and climbers, patios and containers, borders and perennials and water and wildlife gardens. Each chapter includes practical advice on design and planning, step-by-step projects to re-vamp your garden, and a host of Alan's favourite plants to guide you in your selection. With its perfect balance of practical advice and inspirational ideas, How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening and, together with How to be a Gardener Book One, provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner.

Best-selling author Alan Titchmarsh brings us the definitive guide to gardening throughout the year. The Gardener's Year is not about quick fixes, design makeovers or hard drudge, but simply about knowing what you should be doing in your garden, when, and why. Month by month Alan gives us the low-down on how to keep your garden looking its best. In-depth and packed full of useful tips, it includes advice on everything from what seeds you can plant out in your vegetable plot in May, to how to keep your hanging baskets looking stunning in September.

This book on gardening with colour by its most adventurous exponent - Christopher Lloyd OBE - is now available in paperback as well as hardback. It is about using colour for maximum impact. With a chapter on every colour - from 'Challenging Orange' to 'Sophisticated Black', Lloyd explores each colour in relation to others and discusses the rules in order to encourage the gardener to break them. If a colour is 'polite', Lloyd certainly knows how to liven it up without making it vulgar. In an all-white border, he advocates a touch of clear pink to make you sit up; he suggests bright scarlet rose hips in a purple bed to introduce a note of rebellion. Stunning photographs by Jonathan Buckley enhance this superb collection of colour combinations. Colour for Adventurous Gardeners is opinionated, controversial and the most colourful book on plant associations ever written.

Here, at last, is a book on gardening with colour by its most adventurous exponent - Christopher Lloyd. Colour for Adventurous Gardeners is about using colour for maximum impact. No border, no garden is ever monochromatic and even an all-green garden consists of many shades, yet books for gardeners treat each colour as a separate entity and, like painting by numbers, set out rules to be followed. With a chapter on every colour - from 'Challenging Orange' to 'Sophisticated Black', Christopher Lloyd explores each colour in relation to others and discusses the rules in order to encourage the gardener to break them. 'The limitations imposed by rules,' he writes, 'are a safe-haven, but the adventurous gardener will want to try something different.' If a colour is 'polite', Lloyd certainly knows how to liven it up without making it vulgar. In a fashionable all-white border, he advocates a touch of clear pink to make you sit up; he suggests bright scarlet rose hips in a purple bed to introduce a note of rebellion. Colour for Adventurous Gardeners is NOT another book on gardening with colour. It's opinionated, it's controversial and it's the most colourful book on plant associations you'll ever read.

Theres nothing better than the taste of fruit and veg that youve grown yourself. It has flavour and freshness that no supermarket produce could ever hope to beat. Whether youve grown your own all your life or are just getting into gardening, Gardeners World 101 Grow and Eat Ideas is packed with inspiration. There are ideas for growing salads, fruit, herbs and veg. You dont even need a garden to enjoy our planting recipes for pots that taste as good as they look as theyll do equally well on a windowsill as a patio. Youll never eat tasteless fruit and veg again with Gardeners World 101 Grow and Eat Ideas.

There is nothing more stunning than a garden bursting with colour. Whether you want glorious borders or striking pots, 101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers is full of plant ideas and aftercare tips. Grouped by colour and with expert advice on each flower, you can find the perfect plant solutions for your garden. With opulent photography accompanying every suggestion, this little book is a wonderful inspiration.

In 101 Garden Projects, you'll find ideas suitable for all garden shapes and sizes. Whether you want to tidy and perfect or completely transform your outside space, Gardeners' World Magazine has the answer. Everything from planting, pruning and composting to hanging baskets, lawns, benches, ponds and BBQs, greenhouses and indoor gardening and grow to eat ideas, this little book is packed full of expert advice and creative ideas to make the most of your garden and time. Creating the garden you want doesn't have to be daunting and, now, couldn't be simpler.

You dont even need a garden to enjoy growing beautiful plants as a pot or window box can be squeezed in anywhere. Whether you want to have colourful flowers or homegrown veg, Gardeners World 101 Pots is packed with fantastic planting recipes to try. All are easy to do and will produce great results without any hassle. There are ideas to create stunning displays for each season of the year, plus easy ways to grow veg in pots so your own homegrown produce is just outside your kitchen. Youll never be stuck for ideas of what to plant with this handy little book.

Anyone can have a beautiful garden regardless of the conditions they have to work with and 101 Plants for Problem Places shows you how. Divided by problem, with full-colour photography, youll soon find the best plants for every corner of your outside space. Including damp shade, dry shade, heavy clay, hot and dry, windy and exposed, and stony and chalky, there are plenty of ideas for all locations. Full of no-nonsense information and advice from Gardeners' World Magazine, getting the most out of your garden has never been simpler.

Few gardens have constant sun, but this doesn't mean they have to be gloomy. Even the most shaded gardens can be full of colour and variety. From delicate, vibrant Dicentra spectabilis to large, lobed evergreen Fatsia japonic, 101 Shade-Loving Plants is full of diverse ideas to suit all gardens. Packed with expert instruction on planting and aftercare, and a full-colour photograph to accompany each flower idea, banish the dark from shady-places once and for all.

Gardening from Berryfields is invaluable to all gardeners and, in particular, to the viewers of BBC2's Gardeners' World. Using the main projects undertaken at Berryfields (the Gardeners' World garden) the book guides the reader through a year of gardening, giving practical advice so that they can use Berryfields as a template for managing their own garden. The book cleverly distills all the information that is packed into each episode of Gardeners' World and draws on the immense horticultural experience of Monty Don, the show's main presenter. The book is divided into 13 chapters covering subjects such as the kitchen garden, courtyard garden, dry garden, herb garden, mixed borders, pond, orchard, and wildflower meadow.

Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for bathroom decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - Good Homes 101 Bathrooms. Guaranteed to help you find the look that you want, the 101 bathrooms are grouped by style: Space-saving Contemporary Classic Budget Country Creative Each bathroom is illustrated with a full-colour photo and accompanied by invaluable information from the Good Homes team on the specific features of the room, including colour, lighting, accessories and flooring. With a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, Good Homes 101 Bathrooms will help you create the bathroom of your dreams.

Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for bedroom decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - Good Homes 101 Bedrooms. Guaranteed to help you find the look that you want, the 101 bedrooms are grouped by style: Contemporary Classic Country Creative Budget Bohemian Each bedroom is illustrated with a full-colour photo and accompanied by invaluable information from the Good Homes team on the specific features of the room, including colour, lighting, accessories and flooring. With a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, Good Homes 101 Bedrooms will help you create the bedroom of your dreams.

Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for kitchen decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - Good Homes 101 Kitchens. Guaranteed to help you find the look that you want, the 101 kitchens are grouped by style: Contemporary Traditional/Classic New England/Quaker Budget Country Retro Each kitchen is illustrated with a full-colour photo and accompanied by invaluable information from the Good Homes team on the specific features of the room, including colour, lighting, accessories and flooring. With a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, Good Homes 101 Kitchens will help you create the kitchen of your dreams.

Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for living room decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - Good Homes 101 Living Rooms. Guaranteed to help you find the look that you want, the 101 living rooms are grouped by style: Modern Classic Modern country World Creative Laid-back living Each living room is illustrated with a full-colour photo and accompanied by invaluable information from the Good Homes team on the specific features of the room, including colour, lighting, accessories and flooring. With a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, Good Homes 101 Living Rooms will help you create the living room of your dreams.

Interior designers know that paint, fabric and carpet are only the start of a room scheme: it is the creative finishing touches that really bring a room to life. These smaller details give a room personality - a pretty edging on a blind or the way pictures have been grouped above a fireplace. These are the money-can't-buy tricks that professional stylists use every day to make their rooms look beautiful. 101 Creative Touches puts all the expert knowledge of an army of stylists into the hands of the home decorator and provides a wide range of insider secrets with simple instructions to get the ideas off the pages and into their homes. The book is divided by project type into eight sections and each project is supported by a beautiful full-colour photo, a list of what's needed to carry out the technique and easy-to-follow instructions. At the back of the book there's an invaluable list of specialist suppliers for the materials which are used throughout.

Finishing touches range from plumping up a pile of co-ordinating cushions to arranging a few cut flowers from the garden in a pretty jug. This clever book is packed from cover to cover with quick and easy ideas that will make a real difference to your rooms in just an hour or two. Along with creative little things to make or customize, there's advice on what to buy and, throughout, there's an emphasis on how to arrange or display your own items to best effect. Find out how to turn a few pieces of simple cream china into a stunning mantelpiece display or how to show off special souvenirs and memorabilia in a unique way. There are ideas for every room in the house all supported with clear text that puts the skill of the professional stylist into the hands of every home owner.

101 Ideas for Downstairs is packed with decorating, furnishing, flooring and lighting ideas for living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. These most public rooms in the house deserve the best attention - not least of all because they are often the most expensive to decorate. The book is divided into three key sections, kitchens, dining rooms and living rooms, and each is then subdivided into key styles. Each room is illustrated with a beautifully shot full-colour photograph and in-depth advice on how to create the look at home. There are details on everything from choosing colour and mixing patterns to being creative with lighting and finishing touches. The book includes a suppliers directory. As well as being an invaluable source book, 101 Home Ideas for Downstairs will help the home decorator build confidence and the ability to interpret looks and styles to create original decorating schemes for any room.

101 Ideas for Upstairs presents 101 looks for bedrooms and bathrooms - from cool modern to warm country with a touch of tradition and a little breathtaking colour thrown in for good measure. There's something about bedrooms and bathrooms that gives people the confidence to be a little daring and experimental. Whether you're playing safe or going for broke, a little guidance, a few fresh ideas and the guarantee that all the ideas work is good news indeed. The book is divided into two key sections, bedrooms and bathrooms, and each is then subdivided into key styles. Each room is illustrated with a beautifully shot full-colour photograph and in-depth advice on how to create the look at home. Choosing colour, mixing pattern, how to be creative with lighting and the all-important finishing touches are all explored in a way that will provide invaluable insight into the 'rules' of decorating.

What's the one thing that every home owner would like? More space. It doesn't matter if you are a family of four in a maisonette or a hip couple in a townhouse, somehow there never seems to be quite enough room for you, your things and your hobbies. However, the problem isn't as bad as you might think. For most of us there are ways to make our homes bigger (or at least seem bigger!). From clearing the clutter to cleaning the windows, level one in the Space Programme includes simple, everyday ways to increase the feeling of space in your place. Level two gets down to some serious storage ideas and level three is the full-blown extension that really will change the way you live. In 101 Ways to Make More Space you'll find ways to give rooms a double life, clever visual tricks to increase the sense of space and creative ideas for converting your loft or extending your home, backed up with solid advice to help you put your plans into action.

Having fresh flowers in the house is an unbeatable treat. They bring life and character to a room, but how do you make sure they look their best and last more than a day or two? Modern flowers should reflect today's trend for simple, relaxed living and there is a knack to making them look beautifully casual rather than stiffly strangled by the vase. 101 Ways With Flowers is packed with stylish, creative and, above all, easy ideas for everything from combining different colour and flower shapes to making the best use of vases. The book is divided into 8 sections covering different styles - all are achievable with the minimum of materials and no special skills. Beautiful full colour photos accompany each idea and the laid-back style is the perfect match for modern interiors. And if you think life's just too short to arrange flowers turn straight to the special section on quick and easy ideas that can all be achieved in under five minutes.

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers distils everything Sarah Raven has learnt in five years of trialing, teaching, learning and cultivating the best possible cut flowers for growing at home. If you want to grow your own cut flowers, there could be no better guide in the world. The book ties-in with an eight-part five-minute mini-series on Gardeners' World in spring 2002. Grow Your Own Cut Flowers is for the flower arranger who wants to grow their own flowers, but has never gardened before, and for the gardener who knows how to grow their own flowers, but wants ideas to fill their house with their harvest. It demystifies the world of floristry, giving away all the insider's tips about sowing seed, conditioning flowers and making simple, but stylish arrangements - a tied bunch, a large vase, a table centre and more elaborate party flowers. No alarming terms, no complex procedures, no sense of exclusivity here. This is for everyone. Honed instructions with bullet points, not slabs of wordy text, written more like a cookery book with recipes than a gardening book

Grow Your Own Veg! complements and builds upon the information covered in the TV series of the same name and provides all the practical know-how to get growing your own vegetables. Combining Carol Kleins no-nonsense and enthusiastic approach to gardening, much loved by viewers of Gardeners World on BBC TV, with the horticultural best practice from the Royal Horticultural Society, this is a genuinely step-by-step beginners guide to growing an aspirational but achievable range of food plants. Whatever the size of a garden, this is a book to convert readers to the pleasures of growing and harvesting their own food plants. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant, and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book to which veg growers can return every year, whatever their level of expertise.

Richard Taylor, author of the best-selling How to Read a Church, joins forces with garden historian Andrew Eburne to produce the ultimate guide to historic and modern gardens. Gardens are amongst the fastest-growing visitor attractions today - in the UK alone 15 million people will visit a garden this year. How to Read an English Garden is the essential book for every garden lover. It provides an account of the different elements of gardens of all ages and explains their meaning and their history: here, you'll find the answer to such questions as: when were tulips introduced into our gardens, and what was 'tulip-mania'? What is a knot-garden, and what was the origin of its design? Who was 'Capability' Brown, and how did he get his name? Why are mazes such a common feature in English garden design? In addition, the book explains how lawns, flowerbeds, trees and ponds came to be a feature not just of grand houses but of gardens everywhere. Among the many subjects covered are: garden design, plant introductions and collectors, kitchen gardens, water gardens, and garden styles from around the world: English, American, Chinese and Moorish to name just a few. Clearly laid out and beautifully illustrated, How to Read an English Garden brings historic and modern gardens to life: a book to accompany garden visitors everywhere, or to be enjoyed and dipped into at home.

'If I have learned only one thing from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is everything.' Monty Don visits each continent in a landmark series on gardens of the world. We are introduced to the unique floating gardens of the Amazon and the colourful alpine flower meadows of Norway, modest domestic gardens in Havana and Bali, Monet's world-famous Giverny and the Dutch tour-de-force Het Loo, the formal magnificence of Renaissance Italian water gardens, the tropical planting traditions of Thailand, and the intriguing fusion of indigenous and colonial garden cultures in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Each garden is placed in context, horticultural preconceptions are abandoned and Monty is constantly surprised by the unexpected locations where gardens thrive. A vivid account of travel, adventure, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge.

In 2005, Monty Don set up a smallholding where a group of prolific offenders mainly drug addicts - would work on the land. If the project was a success, Monty planned a national network of farms with the objective of helping people in adversity through working the soil. Written with the skill and honesty that characterises all his work The Monty Project is a powerful account of the day-to-day trials and tribulations of young people with terrible problems. For Monty the project was an extraordinary journey during which he had to confront issues he had never encountered, while exercising all his traditional skills as a plantsman. There were desperate and bleak times - the first plot of land being blocked and the endless early struggles to engage the offenders with the project. But these made the achievements of planting and harvesting the first crops, a successful open day and one of the offenders passing his three-month point without reverting to his drug taking past feel all the more monumental. Montys dawning understanding of the vast complexities of the offenders life of addiction is a poignant example of the huge issues surrounding life in rural Britain. For Monty the project has become a personal commitment to the struggling communities lying hidden within the countryside. For the young people we get to know through Montys vivid diary, it was salvation literally, the difference between life and death.

A Guide to Renovating Your Period Home Restored to Glory follows the fortunes of heroic home-owners as they attempt to renovate period properties and gardens to their historically accurate former glory. This book is the accompanying guide to restoring period houses. From country cottages to ancestral mansions, chapters provide the know-how for working with plaster, stone, timber, bricks & tiles, glass, metals, and there are tips on period fixtures & fittings and renovating gardens. How to trace the genealogical roots of the house, and information on how to raise the money to finance its restoration plus advice on finding the right architects, builders and specialist craftsmen are all included in this comprehensive guide. Providing invaluable advice, the book shows home-owners how to avoid the pitfalls and perils of restoration, and create beautiful and sellable properties.

The book first considers how we should garden today and what the new gardening means. Thematic chapters identify the benefits and potential of your site, looks at the importance of managing your soil, shows why sustainability is important in the garden, shows how gardening with wildlife in mind is beneficial for both your garden and biodiversity, looks at plant choice and the horticulture for the world of plants at your disposal (including sections on grass, gardening with little or no water, gardening in shady conditions, gardening in boggy areas or near water), the structural design of your garden and planting design. Endmatter includes a yearround gardening chart, what plants should go where listed in A-Z form, and a comprehensive glossary and index.Matthew Wilson has been Curator of RHS Garden Harlow Carr in Yorkshire since 2004, having previously been the Curator of RHS Garden Hyde Hall since 2000.

Following the success of Colour for Adventurous Gardeners, the most adventurous gardener of all time is back to reveal how he plans, creates and maintains his celebrated borders. Most gardeners want their borders to be interesting and colourful over a long season, even year-round if winters are not too severe. Christopher Lloyd OBE shows how he and Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, choose and orchestrate plants for maximum effect. Having covered the principles of succession planting, Lloyd explores the ingredients - from anchor plants and permanent perennials to drop-in plants and self-sowers - necessary to ensure continually lively borders. The master of his craft reveals the secrets of keeping every inch of border working hard so that planting schemes are created and maintained in brilliant succession. With superb photographs by Jonathan Buckley, this book will inspire as well as instruct those passionate about their garden.

Whether you're a complete beginner or a keen gardener, there are always times when it would help to have a reliable expert at your side. In this Complete How to be a Gardener, Alan Titchmarsh draws on his extensive knowledge and experience to give you a comprehensive guide to becoming a successful gardener. Alan starts with the fundamentals, covering the absolute essentials that every gardener needs to know, including information on how plants work and what they need to survive, as well as advice on where to begin if you're a first-time gardener. Each chapter includes practical advice and step-by-step techniques and projects, as well as a host of Alan's favourite plants to help you in your selection. With its perfect balance of down-to-earth information and inspirational ideas, this complete paperback edition of How to be a Gardener gets to the very heart of gardening and provides a comprehensive reference manual for any garden owner.

The Great Vegetable Plot is Sarah Raven's new guide to growing vegetables for all keen cooks and any level of gardener. In it, she demonstrates how to plan and plant your plot, recommends the best vegetables to grow and eat and gives clear instructions on how to cultivate them using minimum input to get maximum reward. Divided into 3 sections, the book shows you what and what not to grow and the basic principles and techniques to help you achieve this. It is a landmark Gardeners' World branded book, bringing the principles of simplicity and speed to the vegetable plot as well as including delicious food pictures to illustrate why it's worth growing your own. Illustrated with over 250 photographs by the award-winning photographer Jonathan Buckley, the book is a stylish and practical guide to vegetable gardening, and a companion volume to Sarah's previous title, Grow Your Own Cut Flowers.

The World of Kew covers all of Kews projects, from helping to solve crimes to developing plant remedies to fight HIV. Chapters are thematic, celebrating Kews past and future, and will feature many of the passionate characters from the series. As well as reintroducing endangered British species into the wild, Kew is developing a Millennium Seed Bank as part of a worldwide effort to safeguard 24,000 plant species against extinction, and working with botanic gardens and governments overseas to develop eco-tourism and businesses that use indigenous plants.