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Bees, Bugs & Butter ies
By Ben Raskin
Quarto Knows, £9.99 Hardback, 49 pages ISBN: 9781782405214
Who are the pollinators? Did we know that creepy crawlies are actually our hardworking friends and predators who help to keep the balance of nature?
In Bees, Bugs & Butter ies: A Family Guide, Ben Raskin shares his expert knowledge on the power of pollination through a buzzing collection of exciting facts and activities.
Learn alongside your kids about why pollination
is so essential to the natural world through predator menus (who knew nematode nougat came in slug and vine weevil avours), a ower and insect matchmaking wheel and Pollinator Pursuit (a fresh take on a traditional game). Find out
who’s living at the
bottom of your
garden, about
the amazing
tricks plants
play on insects
and how to call
nature’s very own
SOS team in to
give our nectar-
sipping buddies
(and us) a helping
hand.
Charles Dowding’s
Veg Journal
By Charles Dowding Quarto Knows, £12.99 Hardback, 192 pages ISBN: 9780711239289
The Veg Journal provides innovative no-dig advice in an accessible seasonal checklist for growers.
Month by month,
follow Charles
Dowding’s simple
steps to start your own
no-dig vegetable plot and plant your own bumper harvests.
Along with tips on how to grow more than thirty- ve vegetables and herbs, you can also record your own weekly growing journey in this handy journal.
Book Reviews
Flora
Life in the Garden
By Guy Barter Illustrated by Sam Falconer
Quarto Knows, £25.00 Hardback, 224 pages ISBN: 9781781316047
By Penelope Lively Penguin Books, £14.99 Hardback, 208 pages ISBN: 9780241319628
Offering a unique
visual approach to
planting and gardening,
Flora provides expert
advice and information
written by RHS Chief
Horticultural Advisor Guy
Barter, and is accompanied by vibrant original illustrations by Sam Falconer.
Life in the Garden is an ideal read for keen gardeners and classics readers, exploring gardens both real and imaginary.
Divided into key themes of Planning, Planting, Choosing, Vegetables & Herbs, Fruit & Vines, and Practicalities, Flora provides all the know-how needed to keep gardens ourishing.
Written from her passions
for literature and gardening,
Penelope Lively conducts
an engaging trip through memoirs of her own life in gardens as well as a study of gardens in literature, drawing on concepts such as Reality and Metaphor, The Fashionable Garden, and Town and Country.
Packed with colourful graphics illustrating the how to’s, facts and trivia of gardening, this gorgeous book is the perfect gift for those who want to keep their garden green and healthy, or looking to start their rst garden. From the best owers to encourage the industrious honeybee, to the right soils for your plants, from the easiest-to-grow varieties of veg, to planning your whole garden, Flora is a must-have guide for green- ngered enthusiasts everywhere.
Travel from the large garden in Cairo, where Penelope Lively spent her childhood, to her North London home today, and revisit references to the literary gardens that feature in classic favourites such as Paradise Lost and Alice in Wonderland, with a nostalgic re ection that recognises the importance of gardens in our lives too.