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Gardening Book of the Year 2022 – The Times & Sunday Times
Best Gardening Books for 2023 – Gardens Illustrated
Best selling gardening book, A Greener Life, takes all of the traditional ways of gardening that are harmful for nature and rewrites the rules for a modern world. If you are ready for a garden reset to help wildlife, without sacrificing stylish design, A Greener Life is the gardening book you need.
Packed with inspirational images and practical tips based on direct experience and scientific research, the book covers garden planning, organic composting and regenerative vegetable growing, as well as sustainable flowers, ecosystems and wildlife-attracting habitats. Learn gardening techniques like propagating and growing from cuttings to make your garden self-sustaining, and discover plants that attract hover flies, bees and butterflies.
This is an ideal book for new and experienced gardeners seeking greener, contemporary design practices.
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Gardening Book of the Year 2022 – The Times & Sunday Times
“This packed book covers creating a garden from scratch; growing herbs, edibles and house plants; and the final chapter discusses how to connect with the environment beyond the garden gate.”
Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023 – Gardens Illustrated
“Exceptional, distinguishing itself from
many of the green gardening books written in recent years.”
The English Garden
“An excellent starter book for those taking on their first garden and a springboard for learning… but any experienced gardener, keen to update long-held practices, will find much food for thought within its pages.”
The Times & Sunday Times
“Some books change lives, some change perceptions… this changed a lifetime of learned garden practices and vision for me.”
Stephen Parker, Garden Historian
“What gardeners will want to read”
RHS The Garden
“Inspiring”
– Metro
“Covers a staggering array of topics”
– The Yorkshire Post
Best selling gardening book that rewrites the gardening rulebook
A Greener Life is a modern gardening book for everyone wanting to garden in contemporary, exciting and sustainable ways. Packed with easy to follow projects and ideas on every aspect of gardening. From regenerative food growing from vegetables and fruit to herbs, plus easy houseplants and establishing wildlife attracting habitats. All grown in a modern and new way that looks chic and stylish while being environmentally friendly.
It’s an important and practical gardening book based on years of hands-on experience and scientific data that explains how to plan a beautiful garden that is both good for the planet and us. Grounded in ecology – the study of connections between all living things – it discusses an entirely new garden mindset by planting habitats for wildlife rather than individual plants. A Greener Life rewrites the gardening rule book with a wilder garden at its heart.
It is a mindset that is good for our wellbeing too. A Greener Life explains how each of the projects in the book benefit our mind and body, with scientific research explaining how it works. Gardening and nature can help manage stress and anxiety and here for the first time, A Greener Life explains how and why.
A Greener Life is a wid reaching book that covers hundreds of topics, from the best environmentally friendly skills, tools and techniques for looking after a garden, to planting for beautiful colourful flowers. It focuses on planning modern plant community techniques to attract and support wildlife. It also has many chapters on growing edible plants to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, and ideas for exploring the wild.
Ultimately, A Greener Life is a how-to gardening book for creating beautiful gardens based on 35 years of professional experience designing modern wildlife gardens. With lists of hundreds of foolproof plants over many years in almost 100 gardens from small courtyards to bigger plots.
It will help bring you joy from your garden and nature.
Additional information
| Weight | 740 kg |
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| Dimensions | 17.91 × 2.54 × 24.77 cm |
