Author:James Wickham
Few gardens have constant sun, but this doesn't mean they have to be gloomy. Even the most shaded gardens can be full of colour and variety. Packed with expert instruction on planting and aftercare, and full-colour photography accompanying each gardening idea, 101 Shade-loving Plants is full of diverse ideas to suit all gardens. Banish the dark from shady gardens once and for all.
The perfect gift for the home gardener and landscaping enthusiast.
—— Sacramento Book ReviewAn exquisitely illustrated encyclopedia of plants that may well be growing in your garden
—— Violet Henderson , VogueThe informative text and pretty watercolour paintings which illustrate each of the plants make a lovely gardening book with a difference
—— Scottish MemoriesThis compact, well researched and beautifully illustrated book is jammed full of fascinating garden lore, culinary history and clever recipes using flowers, leaves and seeds from plants you probably didn’t even know were edible. It’s a beautiful book – and I now know how to use of those dogwood flowers come spring…
—— Susan Low , DeliciousPlenty of Walton's colourful stories alongside solid advice borne out of his 50 years on the plot.
—— Grow Your OwnThis super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips.
—— Kitchen GardenA brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general, from a gardener who has been working on his allotment for more than fifty years. ... With technical help, quick tips, reassurance and plenty of entertainment along the way.
—— Daily MailBrowsing this book is like leaning comfortably on a spade and pleasurably absorbing Terry Walton’s wisdom of prepping the plot and filling the veggie box in all seasons.
—— The Saga MagazineThe Allotment Almanac distils all the hard-earned knowledge, anecdotes and charm that have won Terry so many fans. The result is the perfect companion, combining technical help and reassurance in a month-by-month calendar of life on his now famous plot in the Rhondda Valley.
—— Garden NewsPacked with gardening wisdom from a lifelong gardener... It made me want to get gardening again
—— Welsh CountryGardeners of any level of experience will find it charming and dippable
—— Morning StarFascinating . . . [Buchan’s] narrative, together with a collection of well-researched first-hand accounts, takes us on a journey that starts with 1930s Britain (where gardens and allotments had little significance in everyday life), through the war years that encouraged every citizen to grow their own and provide for their families. It ends with what happened in the desperate post-war years that saw potatoes and bread being rationed. An absorbing read.
—— English GardenBuchan has done a lot of work to show how gardening became a war time survival tool . . . Powerful
—— IndependentIn this unpretentious account of Britain's wartime gardeners, Ursula Buchan gently celebrates the dogged determination of characters such as... middle-class ladies who taught the rudiments of gardening in draughty village halls; park superintendents and professional gardeners employed by country house estates, who transformed rose gardens into fields of maize and herbaceous borders into cabbage patches; ...horticulturalists who improved compost and researched the most productive vegetable strains; hard-pressed nurserymen who gave up selling more profitable ornamental plants for vegetables; and professional gardeners, who watched the young men they had trained go off to war.
—— The Times Literary Supplement