Matt Collins

Fifty Things to Do in the Garden (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Hollings, Matthew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fifty Things to Do in the Garden is an easy-to-follow and visually engaging guide to making more of the outdoors. With fifty new projects to engage in throughout the year, Head Gardener of the Garden Museum Matt Collins teaches us how to build, plant and enjoy our gardens.

This exciting handbook is the perfect gift for any green-fingered adventurer who wants to make the most out of their garden. Matt Collins lends his expert voice to help readers discover joy in the garden: transforming even the smallest of spaces into an exciting new project. Engage with wildlife, discover the importance of weeds, and turn over a sustainable new leaf in Fifty Things to Do in the Garden.

Includes:

INTRODUCTION: What gardening is and can be for people, different garden conditions, tools of the trade

DESIGN: Plan your garden, make a journey, create 'no-dig' borders, make a gravel garden, containers and pots

PLANTS: Plant a tree, shrubs, perennials, grasses, evergreens, bulbs, cut flowers, dried flowers, easy vegetables, succulent plants and more. Consider your 'weeds'

FEATURES: Layer bulbs in a pot, make a cold frame, plant up a window box, wire a wall or fence, make a sandpit

WILDLIFE: Make a mini pond, create a log pile, provide (other forms of) habitat, plant for wildlife, attract birds, attract pollinators, sow wildflowers

GROW: Take cuttings, sow seeds, grow climbing roses, divide and multiply perennials, chop back perennials, take a root cutting

SUSTAINABILITY: Add mulch, add a water butt, harvest and collect seeds, make your own fertiliser, make a compost bin, make leaf mould, sow green manure

With projects for every skill-level, and with projects suitable for a quick lunchbreak activity alongside larger, more focused activities, this beautifully illustrated book is the perfect gift for any green-fingered gardeners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008762407
• Artikelnr.: 75267091

Autorenporträt

Matt Collins is a garden, landscape and travel writer, and Head Gardener at the Garden Museum in London. Trained at the Botanic Garden of Wales, Matt contributes articles and essays for publications including Gardener's World, The Guardian, Daily Telegram, Gardens Illustrated,Spectator, The Times, RHS's The Garden and Hortus. He has contributed a monthly column for the Daily Telegraph and reviews books for Gardens Illustrated.

Matt has several books published internationally by Pavilion Books. Matt's interests lie at the intersection between cultivated and natural environments; his latest book, Forest, Walking Among Trees (Pavilion) traces an intercontinental pathway between British trees and their wild-wooded counterparts, and was shortlisted for an Edward Stanford Travel Writing award. Matt is a member of the Garden Media Guild.