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Gardening Books Review

Gardening books are an important part of gardening, providing you with the information and advice you need to help you get the most out of your garden.

Here we provide independent and impartial reviews on some of the latest garden books. As a means of helping you to decide if a book is suitable for you, we offer you our honest opinion about the book.

We also provide a link through to Amazon where you can buy the book at a very reasonable, and often discounted, price.

Latest Garden Book Reviews

The 2011 - 2012 edition of the RHS Plant Finder has just been released. This popular guide to UK plant suppliers contains 3,500 new plants and is now available from Amazon and is THE must have book for all garden plant lovers.

Compiled and published by the Royal Horticultural Society, the RHS Plant Finder lists more than 70,000 plants and provides full details for more than 560 suppliers.

The most popular new plants appearing in this latest edtion are:

Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue'
Geranium 'Midnight Clouds'
Erodium 'Freedom'
Chasmanthium latifolium 'River Mist'
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus Superior'
Filipendula 'Red Umbrellas'
Geranium 'Fay Anna'
Heuchera 'Magnum'

Whilst the genera with the most new introductions over the past 12 months is Iris with 237 new introductions. This is closely followed by 210 new introductions of Primula, Hosta with149, and Dahlia with 131.

High numbers of new introductions reflect both the amount of breeding work taking place, particularly in America, and the growing demand for plants such as dahlias and primulas from the gardening public. It also highlights the growing popularity over the last few years of these plants seen at RHS shows, including the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Tender: Volume&ampampampampampampampampnbsp1 - A cook and his vegetable patch&ampampampampampampampampnbspby Nigel Slater

Title Tender: Volume 1 - a cook and his vegetable patch

Author Nigel Slater

Publisher Fourth Estate

Publication Date 14th September 2009

Contents Description: With over 400 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook's garden, Tender: Volume 1 - A cook and his vegetable patch, is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from Britain's finest food writer. In his imitable, unpretentious style Nigel Slater elevates vegetables to the starring role in his latest cook book, whether that means enjoying vegetables for their own sake or on the same plate as a piece of meat or fish. From crab cakes and crushed peas to broccoli and lamb stir-fry, luxury cauliflower cheese to a delicious broad bean salad, Tender has everything a cook could want from a recipe book.

Review: For the vegetable gardener who also likes to cook this book from Nigel Slater surpasses all his other books. The book is Illustrated throughout with many inspiring photographs and is organised into chapters by vegetable or vegetable type. The author provides plenty of tips and advice for growing your own, followed by a section on using the vegetable in the kitchen - how it is best prepared, what it goes well with, and then specific full recipes. Tender: Volume 1 - a cook and his vegetable garden is one of the all time greats and is a must have book for any gardener who likes to cook. This book makes a great gift for every gardener who grows or is thinking of growing their own veg.