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Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds. Hello and welcome to a special edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast.

As Christmas, FAST approaches, it's time for our annual discussion of garden-related books ancient and modern.

Books to treasure, books to give us gifts,

and books to refer to time and time again. I'm Guy Barta, Chief Horticulturist of the RHS.

Today I'm joined by three book and plant-loving colleagues in our publishing headquarters in Peterborough.

I'm James Armitage and I edit The Plansman and various other RHS specialist publications.

I'm Fiona Davidson and I'm the head of libraries and exhibitions at the RHS.

And I'm Chris Young, the editor of the Garden Magazine and I oversee all the editorial we make across the society.

So to get things started, let's talk about 2018 a year in books. What garden-related tomes have caught your

imagination this year? What have you read? What do you think? Fiona, you're ahead of RHS libraries. Let's

start with you. Every year we buy literally hundreds of books for RHS members, so it's really hard to pick

out. I mean, personally, I've been mostly reading about Victorian gardeners

out of that. I think I'd pick out a book that's only just come out called The Galanthophiles by

Jane Kilpatrick and Jennifer Harmer, because it's a beautifully illustrated book. I really like

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