An Orchard Odyssey by Naomi Slade
By Naomi Slade
An Orchard Odyssey is an illustrated resource for fruit-lovers. Packed with ideas and advice, it shows how orchard living can be incorporated into every lifestyle, no matter how busy or short of space you are. It promotes the ‘five trees’ orchard principle and tries to redefine what an orchard is.
Petal, Leaf, Seed
By Lia Leendertz
Divided into three sections, each of which has its own growing guide. Petal section covers spring, summer, herb and vegetable flowers; Leaf covers annual and perennial herbs, exotic and fruit leaves; Seed covers nuts, and herb, vegetable and flower seeds.
New Small Garden by Noel Kingsbury
By Noel Kingsbury
Small gardens are a challenge to design and to keep. This title aims to inspire and inform gardeners to make the most of their small spaces by looking at more than 50 contemporary and inspirational gardens, at how their designers have created them and how their owner's use and develop them.
Wonderful Weeds by Madeline Harley
By Madeline Harley
Wonderful Weeds is a record of widespread British weeds since the early 20th century. The descriptions are accompanied by photographs of almost 200 British weedy species, from flowers tinier than a pinhead to the riotous Corn Marigold or Rosebay Willowherb. The book explains these under appreciated plants, and help understand their important role in the ecosystem.
A Botanist’s Vocabulary by Susan K Pell and Bobbi Angell
By Susan K Pell and Bobbi Angell
A Botanist's Vocabulary helps gardeners with better understanding of what they see and a way to categorise and organise the natural world. Through definitions and black and white illustrations, it defines 1,300 words commonly used by botanists, naturalists and gardeners to describe plants.
Tiny Tabletop Gardens: 35 projects for super-small spaces–outdoors and indoors
By Emma Hardy
Tiny tabletop Gardens provides ideas for your tiny tabletop displays. Indoor projects such as little ferns under glass domes and Japanese mass balls, along with outdoor projects such as hanging lantern planters and a tower of plants are listed with step-by-step instructions and tips.
Urban Jungle: Living and styling with plants
Author – Judith de Graaff, Igor Josifovic
The book is not only for just seasoned plant lovers but also for beginners. It is a manual with ideas to grow more plants in your home. The book acts as a guide by taking you through different green homes across Europe. It summarises indoor gardens with easy tips and DIYs.
You should have been here last week
By Tim Richardson
The book has a collection of articles, essays, columns and reviews from writings for various publications such as Country Life, Daily Telegraph and Gardens Illustrated. There are no articles in the book about the best ways to grow sweet peas or potatoes. This collection contains articles which have probably influenced the way we think about gardens.
Gardening in Urban India
By NA (DK Publishers)
This is on the basics of gardening: detecting soil types and climatic conditions and a plant directory with easy to identify photographs. It also talks about plant care such as watering, compost tutorials and pruning, and these are discussed in great detail. This is a step-by-step approach with a lot of visual appeal.
Cultivating Garden Style: Inspired advice and practical advice to unleash your garden personality
By Rochelle Greayer
The author throws out the conventional garden designs and instead introduces the readers to about 23 far-out styles, along with descriptions on how to recreate them.
Rhapsody in Green: A modern Garden Notebook
By Charlotte Mendelson
A witty novel about the obsessive gardener within the author herself. The author's garden, despite being only six square meters big, is a tiny jungle. The unintended chaos beautifies her garden and the book is for people who have a small space for gardening. This compilation of magazine articles, which do not follow any particular structure, also talks about the concepts of reality and fantasy integral to gardening.
The plant Lover’s Guide to Salvias
By John Whittlesey
This is also for wildlife enthusiasts who love gardening Salvias, which belongs to the mint family. The plants suggested can also attract a variety of insects and hummingbirds, and are of the drought-resistant variety.
Profiles about 150 plants are given including its type, habitat, size, hardiness, origin, cultivation, tips on design and use of landscape.
Gardenista
By Michelle Slatalla
Pick this if you want your garden to be an extension of your house. There are photographs of inspirational gardens, and offers suggestions on designs
using colours of your plants.
The garden can be functional and there is a brief chapter on gardening methods and tools towards the end of the book.
The author’s sense of humour is an added treat.