The Best Gardening Books of 2023!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It’s that time of year again… Our annual book special is here! Today, Helen Griffin, RHS Book Publishing Manager, chats with Fiona Davidson, Guy Barter, and Arthur Parkinson about their top gardening book picks of 2023. Tune in for a discussion on the future of GYO and resilient planting, the relevance of gardening history, and wildcard topics like cut flowers, winter gardening, and yes, even murder. Presenter: Helen Griffin Contributors: Fiona Davidson, Guy Barter, Arthur Parkinson, and Matt Pottage Books Discussed: Botany of the Kitchen Garden by Helena Dove Rekha’s Kitchen Garden: Seasonal Produce and Home-Grown Wisdom from One Gardener’s Allotment Year by Rekha Mistry RHS The Winter Garden by Naomi Slade England’s Gardens: A Modern History by Stephen Parker Gardening can be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants by Tony Le Britton Chatsworth: The gardens and the people who made them by Alan Titchmarsh A Year Full of Veg: A Harvest for All Seasons by Sarah Raven The Cut Flower Sourcebook by Rachel Siegfried

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you. Let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:34.2	Hello, green fingered book lovers.
0:36.5	I'm Helen Griffin,
0:46.3	the book publishing manager at the RHS, which basically means I have the great honour of overseeing some of the best releases in the gardening literary world. I get to pour over many pages of beautiful gardens of grow your own, ornamental horticulture, of houseplant care and of groundbreaking new science.
0:56.7	And today I'm here to chat with you about the best gardening books of the year,
1:01.2	which are the perfect things in my opinion to curl up with on frosty winter nights.
1:06.4	Joining me with their favourite books is Guy Barta, RHS chief horticulturalist, podcast presenter, author
1:13.3	of many books, including this year's RHS Garden Almanac. Hello Guy. Hello, Helen. Fiona
1:20.4	Davison is also with us. She's Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the RHS, an author of the
1:26.2	wonderful new book, An Almost Impossible Thing,
1:29.5	The Radical Lives of Britain's Pioneering Women Gardners. Hello Fiona. Hello, Helen.
1:35.8	And last but certainly not least, Arthur Parkinson is also here to chat with us.
1:41.0	Arthur is the author of the Potteryer, the flower yard and most recently
1:46.6	planting a paradise. He also co-presents the podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with Sarah Raven.
1:54.3	Welcome Arthur. Hello, Helen. You're listening to Gardening with the RHS for the annual book special with me, Helen Griffin.
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