Whether you're nurturing organic fruit and veg or planting flowers for year-round colour the latest crop of gardening books are packed full of expert tips and inspiring pictures to help both the experienced gardener and the enthusiastic novice.

By Elspeth Pridham

Pick this pocket-sized favourite from the experts at the RHS and ensure your plants are well cared for and your garden blooms all year round. This easy-to-follow guide not only tells you what to do when, but shows you how to do it. The guide includes 1,300 seasonal tasks for every part of the garden plus expert plant advice, including star plants from January to December, and tips on organisation. Whether you are a green-fingered guru or are just starting out, enjoy 12 months of successful gardening.

'Gardening Month by Month', the RHS (Dorling Kindersley, £9.99)

Robin Lane Fox writes a weekly gardening column for the Financial Times and this compilation of his work takes the reader on an enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. It draws on Robin's lifetime of practical gardening, including his years as Garden Master of New College, Oxford, and contains many memories of fellow gardeners, from Christopher Lloyd to Nancy Lancaster.

The book makes interesting reading for anyone setting out on a new garden or taking stock of one. It takes a critical look at fashions of the moment and is full of advice, ranging from problems with badgers to how to take root-cuttings

'Thoughtful Gardening', by Robin Lane Fox www.penguin.co.uk (Particular Books, £25)

In this gardening journal, which accompanies the BBC2 series of the same name, Carol Klein, with characteristic warmth and eloquence, tells us the story of a year in her beautiful garden at Glebe Cottage. With superb photography throughout, she takes us on a procession through the seasons, as she plans and plants, sows seeds and nurtures cuttings, tends the borders, and harvests her crops. Her energy, knowledge and enthusiasm are an inspiration in every month of the year.

'Life in a Cottage Garden', by Carol Klein and Jonathan Buckley www.eburypublishing.co.uk (BBC Books, £20)

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One of the most long-lasting and hardwearing artforms, mosaics are suitable for a tiny terrace or a large country expanse. The projects in Garden Mosaics show you how to decorate your space in the most charming and individual way while the extensive technique section helps you choose and use the right tiles for your environment. All the 25 projects featured are suitable for beginners and range from simple decorative pieces, such as child's footprints and butterfly stones, to practical and sturdy weatherproof pieces, including a chequered mosaic tabletop.

'Garden Mosaics', by Becky Paton www.cicobooks.com (Cico Books, £12.99)

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Whether you want to grow strawberries and marrow untainted by chemicals or find natural methods of pest and weed control, this guide to organic gardening helps you create a garden that is safer for your children, pets and wildlife and reap the benefits of gardening in harmony with nature.

'Organic Gardening', by Geoff Hamilton (Dorling Kindersley £20)

This detailed guide to the day-by-day 2011 lunar cycles includes information on the waxing and waning moon and an abundance of gardening tips. The effects of the moon on plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables are explained in simple but ample detail and recommendations for the ideal times to sow, transplant, rotate crops and harvest are provided

'In Tune with the Moon', by Michel Gros (Deep Books £8.99)

Women gardeners have long grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad and their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society's attitudes, this fascinating book is a celebration of the female gardener

'Gardening Women', by Catherine Horwood (Virago, £20)

Over two years the professionals at Gardeners' World created a series of beautiful flower gardens, Greenacre, from a disused playing field in Birmingham. Here Toby Buckland reveals how you can adopt the tried and tested methods they used to create your own year-round flower garden in this beautifully illustrated guide.

Split into achievable front and back garden plots, the Greenacre gardens accommodate a range of designs, aspects and plant-types, from a luscious twilight garden for evening scent to a hardy coastal garden.

'Gardener's World: Flowers' by Toby Buckland www.eburypublishing.co.uk (BBC Books, £20)

From growing vegetables and plants to herbs and fruit this book is the ultimate grow-to-eat manual with simple, comprehensive tips and advice on what to grow when in a handy month-by-month format. With extra tips on storing and preserving the book also provides advice on small-scale growing for gardeners with little space. With its friendly tone and engaging style, this is ideal for new gardeners.

'Grow Something to Eat Every Day', by Jo Whittingham (Dorling Kindersley, £14.99)

This is an inspiring collection of 50 easy, step-by-step projects, all specially designed for people who are short on time but still keen to create stylish, productive and interesting gardens. The book includes projects to suit you and your garden, whether you have an entire afternoon or just one hour, a good-sized garden or a small paved patio. All projects have easy-to-follow step by step photography and great images of the finished result.

'Gardening in No Time', by Tessa Evelegh www.cicobooks.com (Cico Books £14.99)