Mark Wallington, who want to change the face of British comedy, is going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener. The result is an account of a year spent working in other people's gardens. This is the story of nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write scripts, and of days spent understanding the British obsession with gardening.

This book explores the history, passion and practice of the RHS, the world-famous British gardening club, which has shaped our gardens and the way we manage them since the society began in 1804.

A series of essays by Hannah Willetts, an amateur gardener who has lovingly developed her garden in Shropshire over many years. The subjects of her essays range from an analysis of different varieties of hellebore to a set of comparisons between flowering plants and classical composers, and personal accounts of the joys of simple gardening tasks.

A stunning literary memoir about inheritance, loneliness and the healing power of gardening, about how nurturing a garden can help make a home in an unfamiliar place

From a woman who found solace in her own small patch of land, an engaging and moving exploration of why we garden.

Chris Thorogood dreamed of becoming a botanist and would stop at nothing to feed his growing addiction to plants. In his wild adventures across the globe, he treads a death-defying path over cliffs, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and into the very heart of the world's vast, green wilderness.