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Gardeners' World: Flowers

An inspiring, practical guide to the stunning Gardeners' World flower gardens at Greenacre, from the gardening expert and former presenter who created them, Toby Buckland

Toby Buckland is a qualified horticulturist, TV broadcaster and a lifelong gardener. Known for his earthy, hands-on style, Toby is an acknowledged all-rounder with that rare ability to make gardening accessible to all. His career has taken him from Devon nurseryman, to professional gardener and on to presenting numerous TV shows, including BBC Gardeners' World. He is an award-winning designer, taking RHS Gold and Best in Show at BBC Gardeners' World Live in 2008. He also lectures and writes for a variety of horticultural journals and newspapers, including The Guardian and Daily Mail.

Over two years the professionals at Gardeners' World created a series of beautiful flower gardens from a disused playing field in Birmingham. Here Toby Buckland reveals how you can adopt the tried and tested methods used at Gardeners' World to create your own year-round flower garden in this beautifully illustrated guide to the flower gardens at Greenacre. 
 
Split into achievable front and back garden plots, the Greenacre gardens accommodate a range of garden designs, aspects and plant-types, from a luscious twilight garden for evening scent and nectar-filled bee border to attract beneficial wildlife, to a hardy coastal garden to show what you can do with very dry soil. Toby talks through the concept, planting and maintenance requirements of each garden, describing every flower in full and assessing the environmental benefits of each one. And he expertly demonstrates how to make bespoke garden features, such as cobble paths and bee boxes. 
 
Filled with stunning flower photography and expert garden advice, this inspirational and practical book is the culmination of two years of gardening at Greenacre and enables lovers of flowers to bring a little of the Gardeners' World magic to their own gardens.

Toby Buckland

Very much a practical book with an easy-to-follow layout containing lots of tried-and-tested tips and ideas for practical use in the garden ... Toby has a very practical outlook to gardening which is refreshing ...he turns gardening into an adventure.

Innovative Ideas, Expert Skills, Traditional Techniques

In this brilliant official companion to Gardeners' World, lead presenter Toby Buckland offers a complete guide to making you a better gardener. 
 
Toby sees the garden as connected to the kitchen, the compost heap and the world beyond. He encourages us to turn gardening into an adventure rather than a list of chores. It becomes a workshop to fashion an apple press from skip-scavenged timber, or a warm greenhouse sanctuary. Borders aren't just for weeding, they're for strawberries by the punnet-load. Piles of golden leaves along the roadside aren't just the soggy debris of autumn but the potential for soil-enriching leaf mould. 
 
Opening our eyes to these connections helps us appreciate the joy of gardening, and this book teaches you the craft. However big or small your plot, whether you are starting from scratch or looking for new ideas to refresh an established scheme, the Practical Gardening Handbook will show you how to bring your garden alive.

Toby Buckland

Praise for Gardeners' World Practical Gardening Handbook

Very much a practical book with an easy-to-follow layout containing lots of tried-and-tested tips and ideas for practical use in the garden ... Toby has a very practical outlook to gardening which is refreshing ...h ...

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