RHS Gardening Through the Year: Month-by-month Planning Instructions and Inspiration

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These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. While I’ve only just received the book (and yet to implement it), I am already using it to plan my gardening work. About the Author: Ian Spence is an author, prolific gardener, and expert plantsman based in Rutland. It also has ideas for creating both ornamental and nature features depending on the look and feel you want in your garden.

He worked for many years in Barnsdale, Rutland, preparing weekly projects for the BBC's Gardeners' World programme. This authoritative and accessible reference book is your infallible guide to a full 12 months of horticultural tasks. The rest of each chapter is packed with advice on plant care, maintaining garden features such as lawns and ponds, what to prune when, and illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. Discover top tips to guide you with clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice and illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.Packed with beautiful photo galleries that showcase each month’s “Star Plant”, you’ll be inspired to have your own garden blooming throughout the year! A handy "To Do" list, along with "Last Chance" reminders and "Get Ahead" tips, gives you an overview of the month's tasks, followed by an inspirational gallery of "Star Plants" to showcase the visual highlights of the month. Create a luscious garden that will flourish all year round with this new edition of a best-selling guide to gardening month by month.

RHS Small Garden Handbook provides an all-in-one guide for small space gardeners and draws on the experience in growing, planting, landscaping and design for which the RHS is world famous. Whatever your level of gardening expertise let expert gardener Ian Spence be your trusted guide through 12 months of satisfying and successful gardening. To help you upgrade your garden or make maintenance easier, there is a DIY project suggestion for every month, each of which has been tried and tested to guarantee success. With more than 1000 full-colour photographs of star plants for each month, step-by-step photographic sequences of garden projects and illustrated tasks, this is the garden reference that not only tells you what to do when, but also shows you how to do it.of the profits from this product goes towards helping us provide physical, financial and emotional support to people with Cancer, allowing them to live life as fully as they can. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. As well as specific monthly tasks for every part of the garden there are at-a-glance checklists expert plant advice and tips on organization including Get Ahead and Is it Too Late? It begins by explaining how to assess your plot so that you are aware of the soil, orientation, microclimate, existing materials and proportions that you have to work with, before revealing the principles of good design.