Nothing beats the flavour of home-grown produce, the reassurance of knowing what is in your food. This title offers various tips on how to get started if you've never grown fruit or veg before. It suggests some fun and practical ways you can grow your favourite crops in your small space, and explains you how to get the best from what you grow.

This handbook enables readers to identify more than 40 wildflower species. Working closely with the Wildlife Trusts, Wildlife Watch initiative, readers are encouraged to personalize their handbook by adding photos, making notes, placing stickers and logging sightings.

This guide provides the ideas and know-how needed for creating a garden from scratch. Aimed at the novice gardener, the book takes you through every stage of the design, construction and planting process, helping to assess your needs and match them to your plot, budget and time available.

From the sacred groves of Ancient Greece, to the secluded outside rooms of Sissinghurst, this work is a history of secret gardens. Five case studies demonstrate how design principles can be turned into reality and there is practical advice, from planting to the skilful use of water.

Practical gardens with hedge boundaries and lawn expanses needn't be dull. In fact, the range of plants now available for finishing borders is immense - and achieving an attractive lawn requires as much care as any flower bed. This book examines a range of groundcovers, hedges and lawns.

This manual shows the reader how to grow and use broad-leaved evergreens to maximum effect. A directory gives details of a wide selection of the broad-based trees, shrubs and climbers hardy in Britain. Plants are listed by use, type of foliage, flower colour and season of flowering.

Sun-loving plants come in various shapes, colours and sizes. Drought-tolerant plants are increasingly popular and sought after by gardeners facing water restrictions, this work shows how we can adapt the planting in our gardens to include species that love hot, dry conditions and can thrive with minimal water.