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RHS The Garden Almanac 2025

The month-by-month guide to your best ever gardening year
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A gardening book you shouldn't be without - The Independent From the world's leading authority on gardening, the Royal Horticultural Society brings you the essential companion to 2025. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour, it includes artworks by Angie Lewin, photographs, and advice from RHS experts,... Read More
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The essential companion to 2025: the RHS Garden Almanac is the must-have seasonal guide written by gardening experts.

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A gardening book you shouldn't be without - The Independent

From the world's leading authority on gardening, the Royal Horticultural Society brings you the essential companion to 2025. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour, it includes artworks by Angie Lewin, photographs, and advice from RHS experts, including Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter.

From the renowned Royal Horticultural Society, this glorious almanac provides all-new content for 2025. It is packed full of advice on what to grow, wildlife to watch out for, and how to get the most out of your garden in a sustainable way. With plenty of ideas and projects, it is illustrated throughout with photographs, botanical illustrations, and beautiful artworks from much-loved artist Angie Lewin.

Each month you will discover:

  • Tables of information about sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and rainfall;
  • A complete task list for each month;
  • Money-saving tips;
  • Weekend projects, including how to make an airplant chandelier, a bath bog garden, and a wildlife windowbox;
  • Pests, diseases, and weeds to look out for;
  • Gut-loving recipes using your garden produce;
  • Ideas for enjoying nature and appreciating the changing seasons;
  • Profiles on horticultural heroes, such as Capability Brown and Vita Sackville-West;
  • And plenty more!

A rich and charming guide to the seasons, this book provides tools, advice, inspiration, and things to do for every month of the year. The perfect gift for gardeners and an invaluable way to help plan the year ahead for a flourishing garden in 2025.

Series: RHS Garden Almanac

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  • RHS The Garden Almanac 2025
    A gardening book you shouldn't be without - The Independent From the world's leading authority on gardening, the Royal Horticultural Society brings you the essential companion to 2025. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour, it includes artworks by Angie Lewin, photographs, and advice from RHS experts, including Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter. From the renowned Royal Horticultural Society, this glorious almanac...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711293977

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Illustration: 250 colour photos

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Angie Lewin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 750g

Pages: 240

About the Author

The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 and has established itself as the UK's leading gardening charity, with the aim of inspiring passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. The world-famous RHS Lindley Library holds unique collections of early printed books on gardening, botanical art and photographs. Β Angie Lewin studied fine art at the Central School of Art and has since become a highly regarded painter-printmaker. She has published two books:Β Angie Lewin: Plants and PlacesΒ (Merrell, 2010) andΒ The Book of PebblesΒ (Thames & Hudson, 2020).
Β Zia Allaway is an author, editor, journalist and horticulturist. She writes for magazines and national newspapers on all aspects of gardening and garden design, and has written many practical gardening books, including Eco-Gardening, Compost, TheLow Maintenance Garden, Small Gardens, Shady Gardens, the RHS Your Wellbeing Garden and the RHS Practical House Plant Book. Zia has also edited books for Frances Lincoln such as the award-winning New Wild Garden by Ian Hodgson and New Vegetable Garden Techniques by Joyce Russell.Guy Barter is chief horticulturist of the Royal Horticultural Society, providing horticultural expertise and support throughout the RHS and beyond. Through his long career, Guy has overseen Wisley's plant trials field, has run the RHS members' advice service (which answers 115,000 questions each year on every horticultural matter imaginable) and took on his current role in 2016. Guy has also worked as a journalist for Gardening Which?Β and is the author and contributor to many RHS books, including RHS How do Worms Work? (Mitchell Beazley, 2018) and RHS What's That Weed? (DK, 2024). Guy is also the host of the RHS podcast 'Gardening with the RHS'.

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