Gardener’s World: How I Garden: Easy ideas & inspiration for making beautiful gardens anywhere

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Adam explores how his own garden has allowed him to enjoy the simple pleasures in life and create precious memories - whether it’s coming down in the morning and seeing that single flower in a vase or teaching your kids how to make the runner bean chutney that reminds you of your nan. Following a practical, no-nonsense approach, this gardening guide strips away complex design concepts and focuses on your needs to help you find your own garden style, even if you're clueless about where to start. He shows us his gravel garden, one of his favourite areas, and takes us into the "engine room" at the back of his garden, home to his greenhouse and where all the practical work takes place. something that works for you - your time constraints, your budget, your family requirements, the sort of plants you like, and the effect you want to achieve.

As well as spending time outdoors, the meaning of a garden lies in what you bring inside, and the traditions and meaningful moments that transpire.

With chapters on how to choose plants, how to grow fruit, vegetables and cut flowers and how to utilise pots and containers, the book also contains recipes and advice on preserving harvests. Chapters range from how to assess your site and develop your own style, through optimising small spaces, to how to choose and grow your plants. Adam explores how his own garden has allowed him to enjoy the simple pleasures in life and create precious memories - whether it's coming down in the morning and seeing that single flower in a vase or teaching your kids how to make the runner bean chutney that reminds you of your nan. Discover simple garden design ideas that work equally well for a complete garden makeover or an elegant but low-maintenance garden.

Frost’s core belief, central to this book, is that your garden should make you happy, and with a healthy dose of realism he recommends us to ‘chase the fleeting moments rather than expect perfection on a big scale’. Taking an artisan's approach and finding ideas from his own garden, each project starts with Adam's inspiration, walking the reader through the creative process with clear step-by-step photography and instructions. One of the undoubted benefits of experience is plant knowledge and Frost shares this generously here with lists of his many favourites. Disarmingly candid memoir from a ‘grande dame’ of garden design, filled with pragmatic insights into the practical business of being a designer. Adam's inspiring book will guide you through all you need to make your garden thrive, and to use it to develop your own traditions and meaningful moments.A thoroughly rich and engaging practical guide to creating a wildlife-friendly edible garden that is as beautiful as it is utterly delicious. A really useful book full of personal insights into how expert gardener and Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost gets the most out of his garden. TV gardener Geoff Hamilton at Barnsdale, which made him an early adopter of organic, peat-free cultivation.

Frost claims that gardening is one big experiment and How I Garden has a reassuringly supportive air that doesn’t assume any deep degree of prior knowledge. Building on that and moving with the times, as you would expect, he embraces contemporary thinking that junks some of the ‘rules’ (for example, planting in threes and fives) and advocates a looser, less controlled approach that chimes with today’s gardeners.Adam’s inspiring book will guide you through all you need to make your garden thrive, and to use it to develop your own traditions and meaningful moments. Unlike other gardening books, it's all about finding ideas in the most unlikely places and turning them into something truly personal. He walks us through the different areas and explains the planting choices and design techniques he's used to make the most of every single section.