- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, London (10 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747222312
- ISBN-13: 978-0747222316
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 20.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 247,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Geoff Hamilton, best known for the BBC's Gardeners' World died in 1996 and this compilation takes the best of his articles offering a calendar guide to tending your garden. Geoff takes us through the year month by month with an introduction to each chapter by his wife and fellow gardening enthusiast, Lynda Hamilton. Her tribute to his skills, love of organic gardening and description of their own garden in Barnsdale gives the book a touching personal edge.
The most useful part of each chapter is the key tasks list that details essential action for each particular month. January, for example, is the month for sowing in modules, taking cuttings from dormant perennials and shaping up young trees. Every type of plant is covered, from lawns and hedges to fruit. Visually the book picks up for spring, with photographs of suggested evergreens and flowers, accompanied by practical tips on subjects such as pruning, feeding and mulching.
Throughout the book Lynda recounts Geoff's gardening aphorisms, for example: "Gardening is half achievement and half optimism" that lend it a certain nostalgic charm. Trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables and flowers are all given comprehensive coverage and a wide range of varieties and how best to propagate and care for them, are addressed.
Geoff Hamilton's Year in your Gardenis as much a tribute to Hamilton and his personality as it is a gardening care book, but the two complement each other and it succeeds on both levels, offering valuable practical advice and a snapshot into the life of this well-liked character. --Karen Homer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Here is a collection of Geoff Hamilton's articles for the "Daily Express": a stress-free seasonal guide to gardening, introduced by his wife. Clearly laid out, with colour photographs and step-by-step illustrations that explain important techniques, it is a guide to the more popular garden skills.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got this with the 3D Garden Designer software and I actually refer to the book ten times more than I do to the CD. It has lots of tips arranged month by month. I find myself reading next month's chapter to see what new things I might grow or what existing plants need attention.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For any one that's interested in gardening, amateur or not Geoff's books and DVD's are a MUST - very informative and easy to follow instructions on every thing you'll ever need to know about the art of gardening.
Format:Hardcover
It might be old but it has a lot of good compost between its pages. It covers nearly all areas and is full of excellent advice you do not necessarily get with other more modern tomes. If you have one book it shouldd be this one. Difficult to find eleswhere. Good old Amazon and cheap too!
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