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Fifty Things to Do in the Snow
by Richard SkreinIcy inspiration for playing, exploring and surviving in the snow. Don’t be put off by the cold – get out there and be dazzled by the wonder of winter. With fifty projects for having fun and staying safe in the snow, you’ll never be short of ideas.
Growing at Greenfields: A Seasonal Guide To Growing, Eating And Creating From A Beautiful Scottish Garden
by Diana YatesDiana Yates shares her guide to creating a flower and veg garden from scratch, and how it turned out to be larder, source of home decoration and a place of restoration and healing, too. From planting for pollinators to growing a pumpkin patch and storing your homegrown produce, Diana takes us through the growing year at her home, Greenfields.
Home: Small Home, Work From Home, Rented Home
by Kate Watson-SmythHome: The Way We Live Now is an innovative new sourcebook for modern living. Interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth looks beyond the estate agent's floorplan and shows how to use the space you have to revolutionise the way you live, whether you own or rent.
Ranunculus: Beautiful Buttercups For Home And Garden
by Naomi SladeRanunculus offers advice on how to care for and propagate these colourful cultivated members of the buttercup family. Naomi Slade explores a wide range of ranunculus species and cultivars, all beautifully photographed by Georgianna Lane in their technicolour glory from palest pink to deep burgundy via white, orange, red and yellow.
Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide
by Abigail AhernWelcome to the 'more is more' world of decorating, or as it's more commonly know in the business, Maximalism.
Hydrangeas: Beautiful Varieties For Home And Garden
by Naomi SladeUnderestimated for too long as just a shrub for cottage gardens, the hydrangea is experiencing a renaissance in floral design. Lavish and luscious, the often-giant blooms are the epitome of chic.
A Place Called Home: Print, Colour, Pattern
by Cath KidstonCath Kidston – queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces – grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.
Mad About the House: How To Decorate Your Home With Style
by Kate Watson-SmythA practical how-to guide from the author of Mad About the House, the bestselling book and UK’s number 1 interiors blog. This dictionary of interior design answers all those questions you were afraid to ask.
Shed Heaven
by Anna Groves National Trust BooksA celebration of some of Britain's most important and beloved buildings – its sheds. From the humble to the not so humble.
National Trust School of Gardening
by Rebecca Bevan National Trust BooksElevate your own green space and become a more confident and creative gardener with lessons from experienced National Trust gardeners in this comprehensive horticultural guide.
Perfect Compost: A Practical Guide
by Simon Akeroyd National Trust BooksLearn how to make and use nourishing compost for your garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener.
Cottage Gardens
by Claire Masset National Trust BooksA celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style featuring cottage gardens from around the country. Features gardens created by famous writers including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter.
The Five Minute Garden
by Laetitia Maklouf National Trust BooksThis book breaks the work you need to do to keep your garden in perfect shape into daily five minute chunks. Following this little and often approach, you’ll be amazed how much you can achieve.
Stourhead
by Stephen AndertonA beautifully illustrated celebration of Stourhead, featuring the legendary Georgian landscape garden in glorious autumn colour with essays by head gardener Alan Power.
Glasshouse Greenhouse: Haarkon's World Tour Of Amazing Botanical Spaces
by India Hobson Magnus EdmondsonGlasshouse Greenhouse fuses together cultures and countries under one glass roof. In their debut book, photographers India Hobson and Magnus Edmondson take you on a worldwide journey through their favourite botanical spaces.
The Anatomy of Treehouses: New Buildings From An Old Tradition
by Jane Field-LewisThe treehouse in its most simple and fundamental form enables us to escape from the everyday pressures of modern life and feel closer to nature.
Peonies: Beautiful Varieties For Home And Garden
by Jane Eastoe Georgianna LaneThis is first follow-up to the Garden Writer’s Guild Award-nominated Vintage Roses. This new title in Pavilion’s series of stylish floral gardening guides celebrates the beauty and versatility of the peony flower.
Mad about the House: How To Decorate Your Home With Style
by Kate Watson-SmythThe book of the UK's No.1 interiors blog, madaboutthehouse.com.
Fresh Clean Home: Make Your Own Natural Cleaning Products
by Wendy GrahamRecipes for natural cleaning products from green living blogger Wendy Graham. Learn how to make your home smell as fresh as a daisy with these eco-friendly, money-saving, germ-busting recipes.
Knits & Pieces: A Knitting Miscellany
by Danielle HolkeKnits & Pieces is a definitive and entertaining illustrated guide to one of the world’s most popular crafts, knitting. Revisit its earliest traces, uncover the useful (and the not-so-useful), the historical, the humourous… and discover how this universal craft often brings out the best in people, from knitting for soldiers’ comforts during conflict and making warm woollies for charity to community yarn bombing. Complete with several iconic knitting patterns, Knits & Pieces is a must-have for both the yarn enthusiast and the casual crafter.
Moving Heaven and Earth: Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape
by Steffie ShieldsThis beautifully illustrated book, with the vast majority of illustrations photographed by the author, makes a fitting tribute to the world-famous 18th century landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) in his Tercentenary year. Moving Heaven and Earth reveals the driven polymath behind the famous nickname. It explores both Brown’s artistic legacy and his pioneering work with water in the landscape. The book evaluates the rise of the English landscape garden in the climatic context of his designs and also forms a comprehensive guide for tours and visits. Approximately 350 clearly labelled colour photographs, pin-point Brown’s enduring views and surprisingly vibrant planting palette.
Shades of Green: My Life as the National Trust's Head of Gardens
by John SalesThis book incorporates lessons learned over a quarter of a century of managing, renewing and caring for the gardens of the National Trust; negotiating change with a variety of colourful characters, including former owners, now tenants. It traces the very British way the Trust learned about conserving historic gardens towards an overdue national commitment to leading this unique contribution to European culture.By the time John Sales was appointed in 1971, the National Trust had already acquired an eclectic range of gardens and designed landscape parks, more than any independent organisation ever. The Trust was in the process of taking them in hand and beginning to acquire many more, sometimes with great houses and estates but also in their own right as significant documents of history, important plant collections, unsung works of art and reservoirs of disappearing expertise. Before then there was little national interest or understanding of the extraordinary richness and diversity of Britain’s historic designed landscape. Neither was it realised that the Trust’s assembly of gardens and landscape parks, including those of Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, is the greatest in the world. With fifty of these places John Sales records first-hand experience of the garden’s modern history at a crucial time of transition from private to corporate ownership, sometimes smooth, sometimes difficult but always fascinating. This involved grappling with mass garden visiting of a scale never before envisaged, severe fiscal and staffing constraints and the perceived need to accommodate outdoor events which may or may not bear any relationship to the traditions and historic values of the place. In each case he has tried to draw out the specific lessons learned.Above all shines through the pleasure of relating routinely to an extraordinary range of people from all walks of life and levels of understanding, including former owners, expert committees and dedicated staff, not least the gardeners, who inevitably have to cope at the sharp end.
Snow's Kitchenalia: How Everything Works
by Alan SnowAlthough today’s kitchens are crammed full of ‘useful’ appliances, few people seem to know how to operate them in even the most basic way, let alone make the most of them. Award-winning illustrator Alan Snow has set out to change matters, with this striking diagrammatic guide.
Fifty Things to Do with a Penknife: The Whittler's Guide To Life
by null Matt CollinsA beautifully presented, practical gift guide to the age-old art of whittling. There are 50 projects featured in the book, ranging from quick makes to more elaborate projects, and even a chapter on creating things from cork. The 8 main themes are: Quick Things – including a doorstop, a bookmark and a gift-box book; Into The Woods – including a willow whistle, walking stick, fish hook and slingshot; Around The House – including chopsticks, coat and crochet hooks; Cork Creations – including a succulent pot, stamp, and earphones spool; Ornamental Carving – including a boat, a deer and a spinning top; Kitchen Carving – including a carrot flute, apple candle and onion flower; The Natural World – including a bird feeder and instructions to prepare a fish for cooking, a graft an apple tree. The projects cater for a range of skill levels and the instructions are complemented by smart step-by-step illustrations, which highlight the tactile quality of the material in hand. The book also includes an introduction with advice on selecting a penknife, maintaining your blade, choosing your caving material, and carving techniques. Featuring the ultimate crossover of cool craftsmanship and savvy survival-skill projects, this book is the perfect gift for creative adventurers.
Flowers Every Day
by Florence KennedyFlorence Kennedy offers a unique, modern approach to flower arranging: breaking away from the stiff structure and formality of traditional floral displays, her floristry style is practical, accessible and achievable.