Vegetable Growing is a practical guide to frugal allotmenteering, including planning your plot, looking after the plants and practical tips for keeping your costs down, such as clever ways of making free alternatives to common growing tools.

Your garden is supposed to be fun - a place where you can relax, a source of beauty and pleasure. But all too often things go wrong. Those expensive tulip bulbs you planted last autumn never came up, your tomato plants are wilting and weeds are taking over everywhere. And worst of all, you've got no idea what to do about any of it.

This clever little book gets straight to the heart of all the necessary practicalities and possibilities in an engaging and original way. With tips to make the best of very small outdoor spaces from patios and courtyards, to roof gardens and balconies.

Written by renowned lily expert and enthusiast, Michael Jefferson-Brown, with the endorsement of the Royal Horticultural Society, this book offers information on growing and gardening with lilies.

For people who haven't got time to hang around waiting for their garden to mature, this book, offers results that can be achieved in a couple of hours or a weekend. It also offers designer tips, speedy garden fixes for instant results and long-term pleasure, and ways to keep a garden looking good all year long.

A unique collection of controversial contemporary garden designs Written by an award-winning 'iconoclast garden artist' Private and public gardens from around the world Stunning photographs are complemented by garden plans