Chelsea Flower Show 2021: the best gardening books to help you design a gorgeous garden
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The Chelsea Flower Show is a highlight of the year for any keen gardener, or flower and plant lover.
Arguably the world’s greatest flower show, it reveals cutting-edge garden design, fabulous floral displays and simply the best shopping.
Lamentably - though unsurprisingly- this year, it’s been postponed. Due to take place from the week commencing May 25, it’s instead delayed until September.
The good news? There’s plenty of time before then to get a jump on reinvigorating your own garden, so when the pictures from the show finally emerge, you’ll have your own little patch of paradise, too.
These eight gardening books are the best guides to ensuring your garden is gorgeous, too.
This book is perfect for people who want to create a beautiful garden oasis, no matter what space they have.
Whether you have a wide open garden, a patio or just a window sill, this book will share secrets of how you can have flowers - purely in pots.
It offers easy to follow advice that gardeners of all experience levels can follow.
This book is best for people who are complete beginners to the world of gardening.
It covers a wide range of topics, from how to plant in containers to how to grow a successful vegetable patch, and is written in an accessible way.
Written by RHS experts, it’s concise and informative and contains step-by-step instructions for achieving the garden you want - accompanied by some lovely illustrations.
This book was the Sunday Times Gardening Book of the Year 2020.
In this practical, beautifully illustrated guide horticulturalist and Gardener’s World presenter Frances Tophill shows you how to plan and maintain a colourful garden that will attract bees and birds, among other wildlife.
It’ll will help you discover the joys of welcoming natural ecosystems back into your garden, no matter what the size of your garden.
Another Sunday Times bestseller, this book provides expert advice on how to have a garden blooming with a variety of flowers all year round, no matter what the season or the weather.
It offers practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned when it should be so you can have peace of mind that you are doing things just at the right time.