Country Living gardening and cookery books

Here's your chance to stock your bookshelf with kitchen and garden inspiration from Country Living

Country Living: Garden Wisdom, by Sharon Amos (Collins & Brown, £10.99)

Garden Wisdom is an inspiring mix of practical advice, traditional garden lore and eco-friendly ideas complied to make the most of your garden. The book tells you everything there is to know about the preparation, cultivation and maintenance of your garden, be it large or small, lawn or terrace, or even just a window box. It provides indispensable advice both for fair-weather gardeners and for those who garden at every opportunity. Experienced gardeners and beginners alike will find Garden Wisdom a vital addition to their gardening year.

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Country Living: Create a Wildlife-Friendly Garden, by Sharon Amos (Collins & Brown, £18.99)

Enhance your garden by welcoming beautiful butterflies and birds. Create a perfectly balanced eco-system with very little effort at all. We've come a long way since the competitive gardening style of the early 20th century, when no effort was too great and no contrivance too elaborate provided the end result was a flawless rose that outshone the neighbours' attempts. Today's gardeners are not aiming for perfection, but are instead trying to achieve a balance with nature. Nibbled leaf margins or tattered petals are seen as a small price to pay for butterflies on the wing, the drowsy hum of bees on a summer afternoon or a family of small birds industriously pecking over the rose bushes for aphids. This book guides you through the basic steps towards encouraging wildlife into your garden, so that eventually there will be an efficient eco-system. It will help you encourage frogs and toads to keep the slug population under reasonable control, and to attract small birds into your garden so that they stay to keep summer insects in check. It will also show you how to attract beneficial insects that can take over the work of chemical sprays, cutting down the problem of pests. An indispensable guide for the modern gardener.

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Country Living: Modern Country Cooking, by Shona Crawford Poole (Collins & Brown, £18.99)

This is a fresh modern cookbook with recipes based on good raw ingredients. Whether it's a recipe for the most fragrant and fruity raspberry jelly preserve, fresh ideas for chicken and salmon, or the crispest tart to eat on the day it is baked, everything in Modern Country Cooking is delicious. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photography, some of the dishes may not be the ones you are familiar with, while others are old favourites. All are in the tradition of country cooking using wholesome natural ingredients of the best quality available.

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Country Living: The Cottage Garden, by Charlie Ryrie (Collins & Brown, £12.99)

When you think of a cottage garden you probably picture an abundance of jewel-like flowers, spilling over boundaries, climbing fences and walls, twining in and out of each other and spreading their scents with carefree delight. It is a relaxed and generous place. The great news is that it is also the perfect style of garden for people with busy lifestyles, in town or country. The best cottage gardens are unfussy, happy to look after themselves as much as possible as long as certain basic principles are followed. This book gives gardeners all the information and inspiration they need to create such a garden, wherever you live and whatever your lifestyle. Gardeners with limited time, money, space, and choice of plants originally created cottage gardens. Nowadays we have many more resources at our fingertips than those early gardeners, but if we follow their example we can create glorious gardens in the same spirit, gardens that literally grow themselves.

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Country Living: Garden Centres & Nurseries of Britain (Collins & Brown, £11.99)

Whether looking for a nursery specialising in camellias or clematis, checking where to find the best summerhouses or simply planning a day out, CL's new book is your must-have guide.
Many garden centres and nurseries are far more than retail gardening outlets nowadays and offer visitors a much broader experience, with high-quality products and expert advice. This book, is the only comprehensive guide to garden centres and nurseries in England, Scotland and Wales. Printed in full colour, this acccessibly designed and well-indexed guide is packed with information on suppliers of plants, gardening products and services, and also provides details of where to buy a vast selection of non-gardening items.

Place your order for this useful guide now and you can enjoy a special £2 discount on every copy. The offer price is £9.99 (usually £11.99) including free postage and packing (UK delivery only). Simply call 01752 276660 and quote Country Living Garden Centre Guide.

 

 

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