Written a book? Think it should be published and available to search for on Garden Books at Amazon. Want the thrill, the validation for your efforts, that getting your name on the cover of a book gives you? This could be the blog post that helps you. This week we took a course through the Garden Media Guild with Jackie Bennett (whose new book The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors has just come out.) She shared with a small group of us inspiring garden writers what you need to do to get your book published. Not everything we learnt is laid out below (it …

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It is easy to stay up late into the night reading this lovely little book by Ben Law – Woodsman. It is the story of how he came to live in a 100 acre wood – building his own home, coppicing trees as a way to regenerate the woodlands eco-system and, with a sensitive hand, learning to add value to the natural materials he used and lived amongst everyday. “The importance of coppice woodlands has inspired me to get more derelict woodland restored so it is able to provide useful poles once again. These land use patterns that produce food …

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(No, Christmas is not here yet…) But we thought we would share the best coffee table garden books that we have come across – in case you need to give someone a present that is hefty enough to mean something, cheap enough to afford and beautiful enough to actually be worthwhile. 1) Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho Our number one book is about garden designer Fernando Caruncho. He was a big influence on us when we started our garden design business and there is much to be learnt from his planting schemes – basically, he uses several …

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