Lawns: An Uncomplicated Guide
A comprehensive guide to lawn care: the one-stop-shop which cuts through the noise and gives you the confidence to create a thriving lawn.
Natural & wild gardening
Dopamine Gardening: Joyful outdoor projects for every season and any space
Feel the joy with bitesize projects for every season and any space – whether you have a garden, a balcony, a windowsill or just a sunny corner indoors.
The Moonlight Gardening Club
New friends. New beginnings. Old secrets…
‘Sweet and heartwarming’ – Bestselling author MARIAN KEYES
‘The word “uplifting” was invented for this tender and poignant story. It’s a beautifully written debut, a must-read’ – Bestselling author JUDY LEIGH
Ranunculus: Beautiful buttercups for home and garden
Ranunculus offers advice on how to care for and propagate these colourful cultivated members of the buttercup family. Naomi Slade explores a wide range of ranunculus species and cultivars, all beautifully photographed by Georgianna Lane in their technicolour glory from palest pink to deep burgundy via white, orange, red and yellow.
Food for Free: 50th Anniversary Edition
This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.
How to Grow the Flowers: A sustainable approach to enjoying flowers through the seasons
Growing flowers to cut and enjoy at home can sharpen our awareness of the world around us and make us more attuned to nature. We find it impossible to walk anywhere without spotting a prized rose in a front garden, a brassica gone to seed on a neighbouring allotment plot or a weedy verge in a carpark and considering its potential for cutting.
Notes from a Summer Cottage: The Intimate Life of the Outside World
‘I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited…’
The Modern Flower Press: Preserving the Beauty of Nature
A Best Floristry Book of 2022, Gardens Illustrated
A contemporary, beautifully illustrated book on flowers, flower pressing and arranging.
‘A delight, packed with stories about the flowers JamJar Flowers work with, as well as practical information’ House & Garden
A Garden Bird Year
Britain’s gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to hundreds of species of birds. Learn to pay attention to these visitors to your own garden or local park and you’ll have a front-row seat to the unfolding drama that is the garden bird’s year.
The Collins Garden Birdwatcher’s Bible: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Understanding Garden Birds
Combining practical birdwatching tips, the insights of internationally renowned ornithologists and the science, nature, art and history of birds, The Collins Garden Birdwatcher’s Bible is a glorious celebration of the stunning world of birds.
Collins Botanical Bible: A Practical Guide to Wild and Garden Plants
The Botanical Bible tells the story of plants and flowers, beginning with an overview of the plant kingdom and the basics of botany, then offering strategies for gardening with purpose. Later chapters introduce seasonal eating, the healing properties of plants and the world of botanical art.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Slugs and Snails (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 133)
Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.