Historic Royal Palaces: Royal Blooms
Historic Royal Palaces: Royal Blooms is a fascinating exploration of how plants and flowers have formed an integral part of the crown, from the past through to present day. From mulberry and myrtle to pomegranate and poppy, this beautifully illustrated and expertly written book depicts in detail how plants and flowers have been used by various royals throughout the centuries not just for power, politics and status but more recently, celebration. This four-colour beautiful, upmarket gift book is filled with interesting facts and captivating stories alongside stunning botanical illustrations and historical photographs from the Historic Royal Palaces archive, all focused on the crown's fascination with plants and flowers, from the war of the roses to royal wedding bouquets and everything in between. This four-colour beautiful, upmarket gift book is filled with interesting facts and captivating stories alongside stunning botanical illustrations and historical photographs from the Historic Royal Palaces archive, all focused on the crown's fascination with plants and flowers, from the war of the roses to royal wedding bouquets and everything in between.
The Pocket Weed
A celebration of the potent plant, and its renaissance from everyone's favourite drag to simply being dope.As Bob Dylan once famously sang, "the times they are a changin'", and he could not have been more right. Especially about weed. Which he loved.For most of the 20th century, the world was at war with weed. But now, with 24 US states legalizing the drug, its reputation, stature and cultural importance has evolved dramatically, as has our understanding and appreciation of it.Packed with pro rolling tips, playlists to get stoned to, little-known trivia and history, cult film recommendations and quotes from celebrity smokers, this is the perfect gift for the stoner in your life.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion, and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.
Gardeners’ World: The Flower Thesaurus
A beautiful compendium of creative flower combinations, The Flower Thesaurus is your one-stop source of planting ideas and inspiration. Chapter by chapter, you'll find a collection of colourful plant choices that are suitable wherever you garden, and whatever the size of your outdoor space. Whether you're taming an overgrown plot, putting your own stamp on a mature and established one or creating a new garden from scratch, there are hundreds of exciting plant combinations that will harmonise, contrast, clash or provide a pop of vibrant accent colour to bring your pots, beds and borders to life. With all the plants arranged in colour-themed chapters, organised by their main season of interest, it's easy to dip in and find the exact right plant for the right place at the right time.
Lavender for All Seasons
An essential guide to to the multifaceted plant, from a passionate gardener. Lavender for All Seasons covers everything you need to know about the basics of growing lavender. Inspirational crafts and recipes that follow the seasons of the year will empower readers to discover how to integrate lavender beyond the garden and into the apothecary, pantry, and crafting space. For over twenty years, gardening expert Paola Legarre has been implementing sustainable farming practices, nourishing soil life, avoiding herbicides and synthetic fertilizers, rotating plantings with cover crops, and encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects through diversified plant hedgerows, and companion planting. With Legarre as a guide, readers will discover: -The basics of growing lavender in different zones and conditions -Growing requirements for healthy plants, including advice on pruning, pest control, propagation, and more -An array of the best lavender varieties including species and cultivars for cooking, essential oils, crafting, landscaping and more -Incorporating lavender as a key pollinator plant in your garden -How to harvest and preserve lavender flowers for multiple uses, including techniques for drying and distilling -Enjoying the harvest with delicious recipes incorporating lavender as an essential herb in the kitchen
Garden Planner (Illustrated Wildflowers)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Botanical Plants)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Spring Mirrored Pattern)
Garden Planner - Durable Hardcover Edition to Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly hardcover Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" hardcover planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy, long-lasting place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Hardcover Design & Compact 6" x 9" Size - Durable, portable, and built to last through all four seasons, perfect for garden sheds, potting benches, or everyday use.✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log sowing and germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and amendments with linked log numbers for easy reference.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture key details for each plant including light, water, pruning needs, growth timeline, treatments, and important milestones.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this hardcover Garden Plannerwill grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Spring Mirrored Pattern)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Food Flowers Medicine
Writers share gifts of the garden in a collection of personal essays. In "Origins and Ra(t)velations" a new home owner receives wisdom from the unlikeliest of guests to her garden. A woman makes discoveries tending the garden of an elder in "A Year in Sissy's Garden." A self-described "reluctant gardener" learns about nature from her rescue dogs. A woman visits botanical gardens close to home and around the world, finding them places of joy throughout her life. A praying mantis named Babycakes becomes a magnificent companion and teacher. In "Mein Apfelbaum" a beloved apple tree provides a sense of belonging from childhood and into adolescence and adulthood. Discover the magic of these and other personal reflections on the garden in this spirited essay collection from contemporary writers.
The Garden Against Time
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.
