Outwitting Squirrels

Summary:

An entertaining and practical collection of tips and tricks to outsmart all kinds of garden pests, written by one of Britain’s most influential gardeners.

If you have ever waged war against squirrels to prevent them from ransacking your garden, you will know that they are wily beasts, who can find loopholes in the most cunning of defences. In this comprehensive guide, Anne Wareham recommends a host of ingenious anti-pest stratagems to protect your garden from a range of foes.

Includes:

* advice on dealing with all kinds of creatures, from rabbits, deer, snails and slugs to mites, beetles and bacteria – as well as weeds, the weather, people and much more

* Advice is also offered on how to resist fatuous horticultural trends and ignore so-called experts.

* Admitting that some pests can't be beaten, the book also advises when you should grow a different plant rather than prolonging the fight.

* Author Anne Wareham is a well-known gardening expert and has been described by the Telegraph as one of Britain’s most influential gardeners.

Entertaining and practical, this is an honest book of advice that will be appreciated and enjoyed by amateur and professional gardeners alike. Ideal for father's day.

An entertaining and practical collection of tips and tricks to outsmart all kinds of garden pests, written by one of Britain’s most influential gardeners.

If you have ever waged war against squirrels to prevent them from ransacking your garden, you will know that they are wily beasts, who can find loopholes in the most cunning of defences. In this comprehensive guide, Anne Wareham recommends a host of ingenious anti-pest stratagems to protect your garden from a range of foes.

Includes:

* advice on dealing with all kinds of creatures, from rabbits, deer, snails and slugs to mites, beetles and bacteria – as well as weeds, the weather, people and much more

* Advice is also offered on how to resist fatuous horticultural trends and ignore so-called experts.

* Admitting that some pests can't be beaten, the book also advises when you should grow a different plant rather than prolonging the fight.

* Author Anne Wareham is a well-known gardening expert and has been described by the Telegraph as one of Britain’s most influential gardeners.

Entertaining and practical, this is an honest book of advice that will be appreciated and enjoyed by amateur and professional gardeners alike.

Sales points:

An entertaining and practical collection of tips and tricks to outsmart all kinds of garden pests
Written in a warm and humorous style, it includes advice on dealing with creatures great and small – from rabbits, deer, snails and slugs to mites, beetles and bacteria – as well as weeds, the weather, people and much more
Anne Wareham is a well-known gardening expert, who regularly contributes gardening articles to newspapers such as the Telegraph, Guardian and Spectator
Anne was described in the Telegraph as one of Britain's most influential gardeners and is also the editor of thinkinGardens, where exciting garden writing by the best garden writers can be found

About the Author:

Anne Wareham

Anne Wareham is a prolific garden writer for newspapers (including the Telegraph, Guardian and Spectator) and garden magazines (including The Garden). She edits the website ThinkinGarden, which has won a Garden Media Guild award and has a large following in the UK and abroad, receiving over 10,000 visits a month. Together with her husband, Charles Hawes, Anne has spent over 25 years creating the inspirational garden at Veddw House in Monmouthshire – it has been featured on Alan Titchmarsh's Love Your Garden and Escape to the Country as well as on German and French television. She has appeared on television as a judge in the series Britain's Best Home and Garden on Channel 5 and was included in a list of the most influential British gardeners in the Telegraph, January 2012. Her first book, The Bad-Tempered Gardener, was published by Frances Lincoln and has been called a 'best seller' by the Daily Mail. She describes herself 'a thorn in the flesh of the garden world'.