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Check out: new homes and gardens books

Monday, February 08, 2010

Source: Catherine Deshayes

Let's take a look at the new homes and gardens books that are to be released this springtime...

New Urban Farmer by Celia Brooks Brown
Published 5th March 2010; £14.99 paperback original

From her North London allotment, Celia Brooks Brown brings real-life tales of her adventures in vegetable growing, such as the joy of spotting the first emerging spears of asparagus in spring, the battles with snails and slugs and what to plant to help fill The Hungry Gap in the late winter months. Celia shares her gardening expertise since taking on her allotment plot in November 2005 and learnt through a combination of hard graft, trial and error, and shared tips from the other allotmenteers. This knowledge has been distilled into a year-round gardening book that is part-journal,
part-gardening manual and part-recipe book with one aim: to inspire you to cultivate and enjoy your own delicious homegrown produce, divided into individual months and seasons.

Joe's Urban Garden Handbook by Joe Swift
Published March 5th 2010; £12.99 paperback

Do you have a small urban garden? A yard, roof terrace or even a balcony? Do you want to transform it into an exciting, contemporary space so that you can invite friends over, or simply to have somewhere to escape to after a hard day's work? Any outdoor space in an urban environment, however small, is an invaluable bonus and these days creating a fabulous outdoor plot need not require you to develop horticultural expertise. Gardening and garden design expert, Joe Swift, shows us how to create an area that meets all your practical and style requirements within the space you have available.This comprehensive resource is illustrated with colour photographs throughout to inspire and help you to solve your gardening and design dilemmas. Using existing gardens as case studies Joe pulls out relevant details and features, revealing his professional secrets and tips along the way, enabling you to create your very own urban Eden.

Decorating with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Published 19th March 2010; £20.00, hardback

In these tough times we could all do with a little cheering up, but with expensive holidays off the agenda, and moving house a no-no, why not start by rolling up your sleeves and transforming the space in which you live into something truly fabulous?  In this stylish yet practical guide, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen imparts his expertise on all aspects of home decoration - from planning a space to make it work for you, through to the practical help that will transform your space and make it truly unique. Throughout Laurence provides professional techniques and tips to enable you to revamp, rework and renew every room in your house.

The Landscape Man - Making a Garden By Matthew Wilson
Published 8th April, 2010; £20.00 Hardback

The Landscape Man is Channel 4's new prime-time TV series on gardening. Making a Garden is the accompanying book.  Matthew Wilson has been the Royal Horticultural Society's Head of Gardens Creative Development since June 2008, working across all four RHS gardens in a creative capacity.  In his new book he demystifies garden design and demonstrates how the concepts and techniques behind the awe-inspiring landscape projects featured in the series can be translated to your own garden.

Simple Knitting by Erika Knight
Published 2nd April 2010;£16.99 paperback original

More and more people are discovering the pleasures of knitting, yet many of today's new knitters have not had the same opportunity of previous generations to learn the necessary techniques. Who better to learn from than Erika Knight? With a series of workshop-style masterclasses which you work through as you create each knitted project, Erika guides you through all the
key techniques, from plain stitches to more advanced cables and shaping, as well as broader design principles, such as putting together a colour palette.

*ALSO COMING SPRING 2010*
Urban Eco Chic by Oliver Heath - Published February 5th 2010, £14.99
paperback
1000 Garden Ideas by Stafford Cliff - Published February 5th 2010, £8.99
mini edition
Make! by Cath Kidston - Published February 5th 2010, £8.99 mini edition

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