Diana Craig

The Gardeners’ Book

Age-old advice and tips for the garden

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 06/09/2012

ISBN: 9781843179573

Subject: Non-Fiction

Binding: Hardback

Size: Other

Extent: 160 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

The Gardeners' Book is a celebration of the wonderful and ancient art of gardening, providing practical advice and inspiration on how to rejuvenate or improve an existing garden. The book includes fascinating facts, gardening lore and history, garden games, tips on how to make your garden the most impressive in the street, how to make and nurture a compost heap, when to sow a lawn and planning your garden to maximum effect. From allotment gardening and tending the topiary to greenhouses and greenfly, The Gardeners' Book will inspire and spur any gardener on to greater things.

Reviews:

A real back to basics gardening book with plenty of old fashioned advice

Kitchen Garden

A great gardening book for the first-time gardener.

John Cushnie, BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time

If like me you need some helpful advice to ensure a bigger bounty next summer, then this book is for you

Best of British

Sales points:

  • A back-to-basics guide to gardening that every novice gardener needs when embarking on a new project

  • Containing practical tips, advice, quotes, sayings, gardening history and some old-fashioned gardening recipes for keeping the pests at bay and your flowers blooming

  • From tips on how to grow your own and making homemade bird boxes, to planning your new garden and getting those pesky weeds under control

  • The perfect gift for the green-fingered friend or family member - over 16,000 copies sold of the first edition

About the Author:

Diana Craig

Diana Craig is a writer, editor and artist with over 25 years’ experience in illustrated non-fiction and a degree in Fine Art. She has a keen interest in Folklore, gardening, natural history, cookery and art. Her books include The Gardeners’ Book and The Weather Book, both published by Michael O’Mara Books.