Frances Tophill covers the sustainable, crafty and culinary aspects of container gardening. From urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets alongside what to grow inside them – bonsai to annuals, bulbs, grasses and bamboos, tumbling and creeping plants and flowers – there are also 40 ideas on how to pair plants and pots, including upcycling existing items and creating your own containers.

‘Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful. Anyone can do it.’ – Evening Standard

‘Offers a fresh take on gardening in small spaces.’ – Countryside

Grow 5 reveals a brilliantly simple, fast way to make a beautiful garden, whether you have a small plot or a handful of pots. With 52 planting ‘recipes’ using a palette of just five plants, you can create:

– a low-carbon flower garden for a changing climate

– a micro-meadow in a city space

– an urban garden inspired by an ancient woodland

– high notes of colour in a tiny courtyard

– a stylized slice of nature in a pot

This practical and inspirational book by award-winning garden expert Lucy Bellamy and photographer
Jason Ingram includes more than 100 of the newest and best plants and how to use them through the seasons.

We no longer just want to garden, we want to engage with the land; the plants in it, the animals, insects and even the fungi. The Modern Gardener isn’t just about creating a space that simply looks visually stunning, but about encouraging wildlife, reducing our carbon footprint and making our outdoor and indoor space more useful in all areas of our lives.

As well as how to select and grow your plants, there is also information for how to design your garden alongside a variety of plant-based recipes – from delicious drinks to natural dyes – that can easily be made at home.

A must-have volume for first-time gardeners, Grow Herbs has tonnes of tips and tricks to sow, grow, plant and propagate a diverse range of herbs, from parsley to peppermint, bay leaves to basil, this grower’s guide truly has it all!

With passion in every page, you can enjoy:

-A jargon-free practical guide to harvesting home-grown herbs
-Easy to follow step-by-step instructions of fundamental gardening techniques
-Exploration of popular herbs as well as lesser-known options

A recent study suggests 38% of British adults use their gardens to grow herbs and vegetables. But with the ever-growing pressure of balancing family life with a career, a lot of today’s green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing herbs. We believe it’s time to change that!

Whatever your horticultural hopes may be, award-winning author Stephanie Mahon brings you a herb-growing guide that is sure to shape first-time gardeners like never before, full of top tips to help your garden thrive!

An ideal gift for first-time gardeners, budding botanists or the green-fingered lover in your life, make sure to get those gardening gloves on, and join the journey today!

At DK, we believe in the power of discovery.

If you like Grow Herbs, why not try the other titles in our Grow series? Learn how to brighten your garden all year round with Grow Bulbs, enjoy a no-fuss guide to container gardening with Grow Containers or minimise garden waste with Grow Eco-Gardening.

Ready, set, let’s grow!

This fun-filled activity book is jam-packed with fantastic ideas to help kids connect with nature and the outdoors!

Created with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the UK’s leading gardening charity. Bursting with fun things to make and do, this activity book is a great way to help kids explore nature in your very own garden.

Take a tour through your garden with your favourite dragon friends!

• Make fiery dragon-egg cookies
• Create a glowing leaf lantern
• Grow your own chillies

These dragons are off to discover more about plants, trees and wildlife. The dragons can’t wait to get exploring – and you can join them!

• Filled with fun activities and gardening tips to help you become an expert gardener
• With step-by-step activities, this is the perfect book to enjoy nature as a family
• Easy-to-understand instructions to grow your own plants

This wonderful activity book will inspire children with a love of nature.

Discover the best times of the year for growing specific healing herbs and also when and how to forage for wild medicine, such as water mint, St John’s Wort, hawthorn berries and rosehips. Recipes are included for how to use these herbs, along with folklore stories from herb wives and hedge witches, the meanings behind their names and the history of how these natural medicines were discovered.

There are plenty of tips for how to create your own medicinal herb garden, even with just a few pots, along with a biodynamic guide for sowing, planting and harvesting.

Including detailed hand-drawn line illustrations to help deepen your understanding, The Herb Almanac is the perfect gift for any nature lover.

CONTENTS INCLUDES:
Introduction
Including using herbs as seasonally appropriate remedies and tonics, an overview of herbs in folklore, wild medicine, magic, superstition, ritual, tradition and literature and herbs in religion and floriography (the language of flowers)

Gathering and Using Herbs
Including safe, legal and successful foraging, a brief introduction to growing your own herbs and preparing, drying and preserving herbs

Witches’ Brews: Poisonous Plants
Including an overview of herbs with interesting stories that cannot be easily used, e.g. wormwood, hemlock and mandrake

Herb Encyclopedia
Including detailed information on over 50 different herbs

Even great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting.

The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.

This extensively revised new edition covers what Monty believes are the most important aspects of gardening today. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned gardener, it’s time to get your green-fingered hands dirty!

A comprehensive gardening guide that no gardener should be without:

– An introductory chapter that explains the essentials of organic gardening practice
– A structure chapter that shows you how to define space in your garden with hard landscaping and natural options, such as trees, hedges, and topiary
– Discover all different types of flowering plants explaining how to design with them, combine, plant, and care for them
– How to grow fruits and vegetables with in-depth crop-by-crop explanations and which tried-and-tested varieties to choose from

Packed with beautiful illustrations and practical gardening tips, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment. He covers everything from planning the space and crop rotation to pruning fruit canes and staking peas.

Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.

Design Your Dream Garden

Although organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, this new edition has a new emphasis on gardening for wildlife and the impact of global warming on the garden. This is a go-to guide for anyone seeking Monty’s gardening advice and the perfect gardening gift for any plant lover, regardless of their experience or budget.

This fun-filled adventure handbook is bursting with ideas to help kids discover the great outdoors and get closer to nature.

Created with the  Royal Horticultural Society  (RHS), the UK’s leading gardening charity.

This beautifully illustrated book is packed fun activities, handy tips and nature facts to encourage children to explore the wonderful world around them.

• Make a wilderness compass
• Grow your own herb garden
• Build a tepee
• Learn how to read a map
• Discover more about plants, trees and wildlife

Each page is filled with inspiring ideas for discovering and exploring plants and wildlife, with exciting activities for all weathers.