Explore my favourite gardening book recommendations

For enjoyment, reference and inspiration seek out a good gardening book to help you as you enjoy building or enhancing your garden.

This page links to the 'off-line world' to those lovely glossy books you can thumb through and admire.

Packed full of useful information books make great reference material, with useful tips and guidance to help gardeners of all types. Glossy pictures abound to enthral and inspire you, or make you wish - oh if only!

Like many gardeners, I enjoy a variety of types of gardening; growing vegetables and planting and caring for shrubs and alpines too for their beauty.

Find your favourite amongst my recommended selection of gardening books;

- vegetable gardening: find a book that suits you; organic gardening, crop details, or if you only have a small garden try container gardening.

- allotment gardening books: more popular than ever, allotments require effort, time and commitment but the rewards are enormous and edible!

- compost making books: learn the essentials you need to grow a plentiful supply of free compost.

- fruit growing: the perfect complement to vegetables/ shrubs - my favourites are raspberries and strawberries.

- rose gardening books not just an English favourite roses come in many types, colours and fragrances and can enhance any garden.

- shrubs: there are shrubs to suit us all, find out how to create a garden full of colour through the year.

- alpines: one of my favourites, these delicate small plants are enchanting - create your own rock garden.

There is something for most people to delve in to.

'The Allotment Book' by Andi Cleverly - published by Collins ISBN reference 978-0-00720759-6

This beautifully illustrated and informative book provides a real insight into allotment life and growing, covering everything you need - apart from where to hire a willing helper/ digging muscle!

Allotments are making a real come-back as people want to grow there own food to cut costs or grow organic produce, or to know where the food has come from, or just to experience the wonderful satisfaction of growing your own and eating truly fresh vegetables.

Enjoy and be inspired.

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