Our best gardening books of 2022

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The handy guide you’ll want for your Christmas shopping! Join Guy Barter, Fiona Davison and Tom Howard as they discuss their favourite horticultural reads of 2022. Books mentioned: Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell The Grove : A Nature Odyssey in 19 and a half front gardens by Ben Dark The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening New Edition by Guy Barter and Christopher Brickell Grow 5 by Lucy Bellamy Your Garden Week by Week by Arthur Hellyer The Science of Compost: Life Death and Decay by Dr. Julian Doberski Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xp2cs

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of...
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth!
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:34.1	Welcome one, welcome all to our annual book Bonanza, whether you're searching for the perfect stock and stuffer for the green-fingered person in your life,
0:42.3	or you'd like to curl up and enjoy a good gardening read yourself, we've got you covered.
0:47.3	And to tackle a tremendous task of selecting our favourite horticultural books of the year,
0:52.3	I've enlisted the help of two dear colleagues and friends.
0:55.5	Hello, I'm Fiona Davison, and I'm the head of libraries and exhibitions at the RHS.
1:00.1	And I am Tom Howard, head of editorial at the RHS.
1:03.5	Let's dive right in, shall we? You're listening to Gardening with the RHS, with me Guy Barta.
1:17.5	Before we start doing the Christmas shopping list,
1:21.6	let's get a sense of the horticultural landscape of publishing in the last year.
1:24.3	Tom, I think you've got your finger on the pulse of this stuff.
1:25.5	What's it all looking like?
1:30.2	So before coming here, Guy, I had a chat with a lady called Helen Griffin, who is the RHS's Books Publishing Manager, to get an overview of what the year in books look like to her.
1:35.1	And some of the themes she picked up on were that celebrity gardeners are still very much a big
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