A Study of the Impact of Imparkment on the Social Landscape of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire...

'This War is a Food War...' In 1941 Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, was determined that the Gard...

Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey ju...

This is the intriguing story of garden gnomes and how they have come to reside in the flowerbeds ...

Part garden history, part social history, this is the first book to celebrate the story of the Br...

Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, the 'Allotment and Garden Guides' were issued monthly th...

Drawing its allure from the gold of the sun and the rule of the emperors, the chrysanthemum winds...

A Crocodiles in the Fernery

More popular now than ever, the allotment is part of the fabric of British life. This is the idea...

Topiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans and experien...

The suburban garden has introduced millions to the hobby of gardening, and here, for the first ti...

A quirky look at some of the most unusual garden animals ever kept in Britain, from crocodiles to...