Product Description: Sarah Raven is not only an inspirational cook, but also a qualified doctor. Here she brings together her unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes, sharing her medical knowledge to explain exactly how and why certain foods help protect your body and give you the best possible chance of a longer, healthier life...read more

Product Description: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century...read more

Product Description: EXPERT ADVICE FOR A YEAR OF BEAUTIFUL CUT FLOWERSPlan now to harvest armfuls of cut flowers all year round using Sarah Ravenâ??s tips, techniques and projects.Find success with 50 carefully chosen cut flowers from a vast array of annuals, perennials, bulbs, shrubs, roses and treesFollow expert advice to sow, grow, cut and keep all of Sarahâ??s favourite varietiesUse one of the three bespoke planting plans for a large cutting garden, a smaller cutting patch, and within a mixed boarderEstablish key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and propagating using helpful monthly checklistsLearn techniques for conditioning, displaying, preserving as well as prolonging the vase-life of your arrangementsKeep you plants and your cutting garden in good shape from January to DecemberCreating a cutting garden is a long-established way of growing cut flowers and Sarah Raven is the UKâ??s leading expert...read more

Product Description: Here Sarah Raven, a leading proponent of the local foods movement, shows how to make the most of fresh produce, whether from your own garden, your local farmers’ market or the grocery. Taking us through the year in six seasonal chunks of two months each, she highlights the best vegetables, fruits, and herbs from each period, throwing in tidbits she’s learned firsthand from her own garden...read more

Product Description: Aimed at both the cook and the gardener, this new guide to growing vegetables makes the most of labor-saving, time-efficient ideas. This is not a book about becoming self-sufficient, but about concentrating time and energy on varieties that are really worth growing...read more

Product Description: This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements plans, plant and maintain a well-stocked cutting garden, and demonstrates how to create arrangements ranging from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags and medallions...read more

Product Description: This work offers a new approach to planning and planting. It shows how to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colors, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn. The key is color: intense, strong and voluptuous - deep crimsons combined with acid green and incandescent orange, for example...read more

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