Gardening

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is a brilliant guide to revitalising your health by soothing your mind, body and green thumb.  From...

Paul Bangay is Australia’s most sought-after garden designer, with close to forty years’ experience. Known for his mastery of scale, balance, form and colour, Paul draws on his lifelong study of the natural and classical worlds to create gardens around...

'My heart lives in the garden. The practice of tending and cultivating a plant through a life cycle - seed to plant to flower - is so wondrous. And the beauty is infinite: the flowers, the foliage, the colours, form and texture. The art of gardening, at...

Focusing on plants destined for the dinner plate, The Kitchen Garden is an illustrated guide to growing edible plants from sowing to harvesting. Learn when to sow, what to grow and how to make your delicious harvest into a meal.  The book features...

Our urban gardens provide an essential green refuge amid the expanding concrete jungle. Even without the luxury of sprawling suburban lawns or vast garden beds, there are many ways to create unique verdant spaces in the inner-city – from a...

Victoria's rich soil, mostly cool climate (apart from mid-summer heatwaves) and - in many places - nourishing volcanic soil mean that with passion, patience, imagination and commitment, amazing gardens can be built and maintained. The Garden...

Native: A Stunning Exploration of Australian Native Plants Winner of the Indie Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction 2018 and shortlisted for the ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year 2018, Native offers a fresh perspective on Australian native flora. This...

Backyards, rooftops, courtyards and balconies are sprouting with herbs, ballooning with fruit and bursting with vegies across our urban landscapes. Slowly, but we certainly believe surely, people are embracing the joy of gardening and the more relaxed...

For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and community. In The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide, Paul shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no matter how much space you have. Paul shares practical...

The award-winning television and podcast host Joe Lamp'l is here with insider tips and next-level insight for creating a lush, fruitful, and resilient vegetable garden. Just when you think you have a secure grip on what it takes to grow a vegetable...

Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden. Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the...

Take charge of your family's food security by learning how to grow your own fruits, vegetables, and herbs-and right along with them, you'll nurture your own inner strength, too. Food insecurity affects millions of people worldwide. Without access to...

In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms. *Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the...

In The Urban Garden you'll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget. Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban...

Make your outdoor space as comfortable and personal as the inside of your home with design and planting guidance from Field Guide to Outside Style.  Maybe you've just purchased your first home or you have an existing outdoor space that's overgrown and...

Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane. Host of The...

In Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, you'll learn how to fill your garden with the right plants to support the beneficial predatory insects that control common garden pests.  This revised and updated edition of Jessica Walliser's award-winning...

Regenerative Garden, The: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-sustaining Garden Ecosystem

Home Hydroponics presents fully illustrated plans for building over a dozen different beautiful, home-based DIY hydroponic growing systems to cultivate your own food indoors. Grow your own delicious food literally anywhere. In Home Hydroponics,...

"The Plant Propagator's Bible offers all you need to know to propagate new plants from existing ones. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, veteran horticulture teacher Miranda Smith provides a complete reference showing every step for...

Hey, houseplant lovers: Are you ready to up your growing game? Whether your green thumb is weathered and worn or shiny and new, get ready to branch out and step into the world of growing your own herbs indoors! There's no better place to start this...

This compact yet complete guide to herbal medicines shows you how to transform common plants into remedies that heal. While using herbs as medicines can often seem complicated or costly, the Backyard Pharmacy gift edition offers a way to learn that's...

Planting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating; it's tough to know where to start. Before you sink your hands into the soil, you want answers to all of those questions rolling around inside your head. In Growing Vegetables (The First-Time...

No-Waste Composting includes step-by-step plans for multiple small-scale indoor and outdoor composting systems that turn repurposed household items into containment systems for composting kitchen scraps and yard waste. In No-Waste Composting, you'll...

Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden. In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens...

Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose. Conquer your small-space...

With She Sheds Style, you'll browse ideas, step-by-step projects, and decorating tips from a variety of creative 'she shed' owners - then add your personal style to your own shed! It's no secret that the she shed revolution is underway and gaining steam...

This hardworking new book takes the mystery out hydropincs: the practice of growing plants in water-based media, usually in a contained environment, indoors or outdoors. With practical information aimed at home DIYers, author Tyler Baras (Farmer Tyler...

Succulents: Everything You Need to Select, Pair and Care for Succulents

You don't need the sun or soil to grow food. Wouldn't it be great if you could plant and grow food in your house year-round? No more needing to be out in the summer sun. No more needing to find the right soil combination. No more needing to wait until...

Actress Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek) shares the joys and rewards of gardening in her first book, Drawn to the Garden. Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Quentin, as...

Fill your kitchen with herbs! Create a living trove of fresh flavours to enhance your cooking and boost your health with these incredible culinary plants. Organised by potential uses, this practical card deck will help you to use more than 75 herbs in...

Fill your house with plants using this practical card deck. Find the perfect spot for every species and surround yourself with life-enhancing greenery in key living spaces. Organised by areas of the home, this inspiration deck will help you choose the...

Never find yourself stuck for gardening advice again with this handy and informative book in your garden shed, packed with advice from the experts at Kew Gardens. Kew Answers for Everyday Gardeners solves all your gardening conundrums, from pest control...

Discover the world's most serene and awe-inspiring sacred gardens in Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World by Yolanda Zappaterra. This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a global journey, exploring the history, significance, and...

A follow up to the hugely successful The Thoughtful Gardener (2017), What Makes a Garden is the second book by Jinny Blom, one of the worlds leading garden designers. A follow up to the hugely successful The Thoughtful Gardener (2017) this is the second...

Pots is the perfect guide to help you fill your containers with plants, tend to their needs and watch them flourish every season. A beautiful and comprehensive handbook covering everything you need to know to grow plants in pots all year round, no...

Prepare the ground, sow seed, encourage, harvest, and fill your home with vases of beautiful blooms, all the year round. Growing flowers not only brings colour and life to the garden, it also gives you an abundance of floral material to use at home. This...

In Philosophy for Gardeners, Kate Collyns uses aspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought. Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately...

A stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to creating and maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space. A stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space. Sustainable...

The intriguing tales of the plants that have been used to heal and cure our bodies, brought to life with beautifully surreal illustrations from Alice Smith. Since the dawn of time, people have used plants as remedies, to both positive and deadly effect...

House of Plants is a practical and beautiful guide to how to love and care for your succulents, cacti and air plants. These indoor plants are handsome, hardy and perfect for urban living - and this book is a comprehensive companion, showing you how to...

A beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, combining exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book,...

Fully revised, updated and freshly illustrated, this new edition brings RHS research and best practice to a multitude of controversial areas: from the use of pesticides to bird boxes, bird tables and planting for birds; whether tidiness in the garden is...

An inspiring guide to transforming a small patch of ground, be it on an allotment or in a garden, into a cut flower patch which produces flowers from early spring to late autumn. Louise Curley looks at what makes a great cut flower, ideal conditions and...

In the Victorian language of flowers, hundreds of blooms were ascribed specific meanings based on folklore, science, and ancient history. Page through this botanical encyclopedia to learn each flower's Victorian meaning (ranunculus, for example, boldly...

entify and understand 40 common weeds to help you curate the perfect plant selection for your garden. Learn all about common weeds and how they affect your garden, to make informed decisions about the plants you want in your patch - and how to manage...

Fuss-free guide to designing, planting, and maintaining a shady garden, ideal for first-time gardeners. Discover how to assess, grow and maintain a shady garden. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Shade Garden contains everything you need to create a...