Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. A firm favourite with viewers, Monty's infectious enthusiasm for plants, attention to the finer details of gardening technique and easy charm have seen the ratings soar. The Cottage garden spent the first 20 years of its existence as a dedicated vegetable garden, conveniently near the kitchen and supplying the family with all our fresh produce. There is a a real sense of the garden coming magnificently into being but still rich with the promise of more to come. In my opinion, it isn’t a book to turn to for quick reference or if you’re looking for lists of tasks to do but then it wasn’t designed with this in mind and most gardeners have those books already anyway.

It will inspire you to achieve a balanced, healthy garden of your own, that’s spilling with produce and full colour all year round. So it is a must for new and aspiring gardeners to take heed before just “diving in”, to have a bit of savvy before you just make the journey into growing your own produce, plants and so on. Invites us into the garden at Longmeadow to introduce us to the garden from the earliest snowdrops of January through the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden, the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden, the autumn harvest in the orchard, and on to a Christmas feast sourced from the vegetable gardens. Please get in touch and we will do our best to source your book, no matter how unusual or specialist. The sumptuous photographs in the book of kitchen garden abundance and stunningly beautiful flowers could not be better adverts for both policies.Pauline has taken the words right out of my mouth 🙂 I will have to have a sneaky peek somewhere on my travels.

We do our best to ready the garden for winter by the end of November, protecting tender plants and clearing the decks and then hunker down in December and January before work begins again in earnest in February and the gardening year swings around again. Although viewers of Gardeners’ World see parts of the garden every week, it still felt that the book was giving me an insight into a private space. We do so as much as cooks and lovers of good food as gardeners, always striving for good taste and health over appearance or size. A year ago his garden, Longmeadow, became the location for the filming of Gardeners’ World and this book takes the reader through a typical gardening year there. It is based upon four symmetrical beds arranged in the square charbagh pattern centred upon a water feature that bubbles gently in the centre.Although Monty gardens 3000 miles away from me, I can take a lot of his advise and wisdom and use it in my own gardening efforts. It will inspire you to achieve a balanced, healthy garden of your own, one that’s spilling with produce and full colour all year round. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

The Spring garden was made to relish every possibility of the season and wave after wave of flower push forward culminating in mid May with the earliest species roses and the cow parsley which then takes over completely.After a short introduction that includes what the property looked like when he purchased it, the book is organized into monthly chapters and filled with photos. See our Remarkables Archive list for what is no longer in print, but which we are happy to track down.