Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice.
Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's intimate and lyrical writing is accompanied by photos of his garden, showing areas rarely seen on television. This is the perfect gift for the gardener in your life.
"I have written many gardening books but this is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden grow well, and it also shares my view that gardening is the secret to living well too." - Monty
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-241-34714-0 (9780241347140)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Monty Don has been gardening on TV for over 25 years for ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, and since 2003 has been the lead presenter on BBC TV's Gardeners' World, which from 2011 has been filmed in his own garden in Herefordshire, Longmeadow. He is an experienced organic gardener and was President of the Soil Association from 2008 to 2017. A prolific journalist and author, he was gardening correspondent for the Observer from 1994 to 2006 and has written a weekly hardening column for the Daily Mail since 2004. He has published 18 books, including his recent Sunday Times bestseller Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs.
1: Introduction
2: The Seasons
3: Weather
4: Nature
5: Place
6: Design
7: Walking and Sitting
8: Colour
9: A New Plot
10: The Small Town Garden
11: The Cottage Garden
12: The Exotic Garden
13: A Modern Urban Garden
14: Wildlife Gardening
15: Children
16: Containers
17: Climbers
18: Flowering Shrubs
19: Lawns
20: Weeds
21: Fungus
22: Pests
23: Compost
24: Tools
25: Planting
26: Growing
27: Pruning
28: Food
29: Grow your own Veg
30: Grow your own Herbs
31: Grow your own Top Fruit
32: Grow your own Soft Fruit
33: Names
34: The Months
1: January
2: February
3: March
4: April
5: May
6: June
7: July
8: August
9: September
10: October
11: November
12: December
35: Index
36: Acknowledgments
