Gardening

Think globally, grow locallyNever before has the interest in home-grown vegetables been so great. It doesn’t take large amount of space to be able to proudly present your own carrots or lettuce. All it takes is a bit of passion, care and knowledge an ...

In 2013, the Chelsea Flower Show in London will celebrate 100 years. It will surely be the most fabulous garden party ever! The Chelsea Flower Show is the biggest garden exhibition in the world and during five spring days every year more than 150,000 ...

Concrete as a material is cheap and unpretentious, yet stylishly trendy and practical. You need no previous knowledge or special tools to start and the only limiting factor is your imagination. Malena Skote's two previous books on concrete, Contret ...

The perfect garden book for the autumn!The world is full of seeds; they gather together in drifts on the pavements, you see them flying in the wind, bobbing in the water. The Seed Book contains lots of practical advice and tips for those who want to ...

Trees and shrubs are the foundations in any garden. Not only do they provide shade and natural borders, but offer a home to the song birds that announce the changes of the season. The key to creating a garden full of character is careful planning and ...

All of us must have ‘impossible’ places in our garden where it is either too dark, too dry or full of tree roots. Torsten Wallin, a landscape architect with 30 years experience, knows how to get round the difficulties and in this book he tells you wh ...

Roses, hybrid peonies, violets and lilac. Old plants and flowers are all the rage again. And of course there are many of us who dream about an old-fashioned garden with all the plants that we remember from granny’s garden. But how do you go about cre ...

Everybody loves summer flowers and during the spring we dream of borders packed with our favourite summer flowers in full bloom, whether we choose to sow seeds, plant tubers, cultivate cuttings or plant out ready-grown plants.Besides advice on summer ...

Most of us have a dream about the Mediterranean. The thought of picking sun-ripened peaches, lemons and grapes from our own gardens. To enjoy the aroma of rosemary, thyme and mint under the mulberry tree a warm summer’s day. But how can you create th ...

There is something special about being able to fix things yourself. In Handbok for hemmafixare, Leif Qvist presents simple solutions for many of our most common problems. They are about how to look after things, repairs and maintenance – from floor t ...

Herbal plants are so easy to grow that everybody with a windowsill, balcony, outdoor corner or garden can have their own herbal garden. Herbs that you have grown yourself are so much tastier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than shop-bought ...

The latest addition to the series of field handbooks Our Nature deals with animal life in our domestic gardens. With the help of beautiful and richly detailed watercolours, and texts packed with information, we can acquaint ourselves with more than o ...

If you’ve bought an old house, then sooner or later you will have to deal with the windows. They might have started aging – the bonding agent in the linseed oil paint gets washed away by wind and rain, the putty cracks, the corner irons and screws ru ...

A garden hut can have many uses: it can be a guest room, a wood shed, a play-house or a tool shed. It doesn’t really matter what it is used for – Garden huts tells you all you need to know when you are going to buy or build a hut of your own. If it’ ...

Fourth enlarged and revised edition of a bestseller – 95,000 copies sold to date! This new, revised edition has an additional 96 pages, 1,350 colour photos, 15 garden plans and 60 drawings. Up-to-date descriptions of plants and newly introduced vari ...

Lars Krantz is a gardener, and for many years he was responsible for the Rosendal Garden in Djurgården in Stockholm. Ten years ago, when Wij Manor in Ockelbo – a little community about 220 km north of Stockholm where Lars has his roots – was ready fo ...