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How to be a Gardener: Book Two: Secrets of Success
How to be a Gardener Book Two available in long last in paperback is the hugely successful follow up to the fastest-selling gardening title of all time.
Having set out the basic principles of gardening in Book One, this second volume takes an in depth look at all areas of designing and planting your garden.
Alan's love of gardening and years of experience really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design and plants, the chapters include boundaries and climbers, patios and containers, borders and perennials and water and wildlife gardens.
Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited, a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005.
With its perfect balance of practical advice and inspirational ideas, How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening and, together with How to be a Gardener Book One, provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner.
Having set out the basic principles of gardening in Book One, this second volume takes an in depth look at all areas of designing and planting your garden.
Alan's love of gardening and years of experience really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design and plants, the chapters include boundaries and climbers, patios and containers, borders and perennials and water and wildlife gardens.
Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited, a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005.
With its perfect balance of practical advice and inspirational ideas, How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening and, together with How to be a Gardener Book One, provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner.
312 pages, Hardcover
First published January 30, 2003
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October 24, 2023
The follow up to Alan Titchmarsh's tv series, "How to be a Gardener, secrets of success" book 2, which I bought for my dad in Christmas 2003. As I said in the review for book 1, I don't know why I bought these books for my gardener father but I thought he might like the pictures, all full colour!
This one builds up on all the hard work you've probably done by now in book 1. Here Alan sets out to help you with sorting out what sort of garden you want first, then helping you to design it. He also helps you to sort out what sort of patio you want and then design and lay down and make the decking. He takes you through container gardening, beds and borders, climbing plants. All in all everything you needed to know in his two book series of "How to be a Gardener".
This is one of several of his numerous gardening books which my mum brought down from the loft for me, never to be his green fingered daughter, but the black fingered one who couldn't tell one plant from another and whose veggies refused to grow. However I can spell any plant name you care to mention.
This one builds up on all the hard work you've probably done by now in book 1. Here Alan sets out to help you with sorting out what sort of garden you want first, then helping you to design it. He also helps you to sort out what sort of patio you want and then design and lay down and make the decking. He takes you through container gardening, beds and borders, climbing plants. All in all everything you needed to know in his two book series of "How to be a Gardener".
This is one of several of his numerous gardening books which my mum brought down from the loft for me, never to be his green fingered daughter, but the black fingered one who couldn't tell one plant from another and whose veggies refused to grow. However I can spell any plant name you care to mention.
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