Places to Stay for Garden Lovers
August 2, 2011 by Linda
Filed under Book Reviews
Special Places to Stay in Britain for Garden Lovers
If you can pull yourself away from your own garden for a few days what could be better than being able to wander around another garden in your own time without any crowds.
Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay in Britain for Garden Lovers
The book is currently for sale at Amazon from just £12.59* and has marvellous reviews, here’s what people are saying:
“This book is full of exquisite photos of flowers, trees, shrubs, fountains, ponds, arbours and everything anyone could wish to see in the ideal garden.”
“I don’t know if all the Sawdays guides will look like this in the future – in my opinion they should. The gardening tips from the B and B owners are a lovely thought too.”
“Special Places to Stay in Britain for Garden Lovers not only met but exceeded my expectations. It’s wonderful new larger format allowing for more photographs to, as another famous guidebook boasts, show you what other guidebooks only tell you. The book really is a pleasure to read in it’s informative, yet casual style. Once again these properties have been thoroughly researched and there is a good spread across Britain. The book looks and feels wonderful and you can lose yourselves for hours researching your next trip or find the right place straight away using the well thought out indexes and maps. If you are planning a trip away I would highly recommend this book to you – one trip and you’ll have gotten your money’s worth!!”
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* price correct at time of publication
Blog of the Month – Plantpassion
March 12, 2011 by Linda
Filed under Blog of the Month
Blog of the Month – Plantpassion by Claire Brown.
Claire’s bio says that she is a Professional Gardener, Plant Advisor and lover of plants which I think comes through in her blog.
I found this blog when I saw a RT on Twitter from @Plantpassion about Top tips for planning your best garden ever. Her No. 1 tip is to take photographs of your garden at different times of the year so that you know where there is space to be filled and where there are dormant plants which will come through during the summer.
Her No. 2 tip has also been published and is just as useful, so take a trip over to the blog or Twitter (@Plantpassion) to follow the rest of her tips.
Gardening tips aren’t the only topics on the blog, she also blogs about:
- Best Buys
- Border Planting
- Chickens
- Container gardening
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Garden Diary
- Gardening with Children
- Harvest
- Plants and flowers
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- The Kitchen Garden
- This weekend in the garden
- Weeds, Pest and Disease
A blog well worth book marking in my opinion. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.
