2020 RHS books podcast
This year our expert RHS panel comprises Fiona Davison (Head of
Libraries and Exhibitions), Chris Young (Editor of
The Garden magazine) and Guy Barter (Chief Horticulturist). They share their favourite gardening publications of 2020, and look forwards to some exciting new titles for 2021.
We also speak to award-winning author Robert Macfarlane, who, like many people, was dismayed to discover that many nature-related words such as 'bluebell', 'acorn' and 'jay' were being lost from children's dictionaries. Unwilling to sit by and watch nature slip from the consciousness of our young people, he wrote a book –
The Lost Words – which
is now taught in schools across the country.
Favourite books of 2020
RHS Online Exhibitions
Other titles mentioned
New titles
►For a full range of gardening books, please visit the
RHS Bookshop.
2019 RHS books podcast
A panel of book-lovers including Fiona Davison (Head of Libraries and Exhibitions), Chris Young (Head of RHS Editorial) and Guy Barter (Chief Horticulturist) discuss the joy of books and share their favourite gardening tomes, both classic and modern. They also make recommendations of titles that would make great Christmas presents.
Books mentioned in this programme
Books for children
- RHS Under Your Feet – (available soon from rhsshop.co.uk)
- Spectacular Plants & how to grow them – Stewart McPherson
- The Children of Green Knowe – Lucy M Boston
- The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
- The Wolf Wilder – Katherine Rundell
- 1000 Facts on Plants – John Farndon
Books for gifts
►For a full range of gardening books, please visit the
RHS Bookshop. In this programme, the panel is joined by James Armitage, Editor of
The Plant Review (formerly
The Plantsman).
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2018 RHS books podcast
Books mentioned in this programme
The Magus – John Fowles- A Landscape Legacy – John Brookes
- London’s Street Trees – Paul Wood
- Blossoms, and the genes that make them – Maxine F Singer
- Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England & Wales – Jill Francis
- Marianne North: The Kew Collection
- The Galanthophiles: 160 Years of Snowdrop Devotees – Jane Kilpatrick and Jennifer Hammer
Books for presents
- Island Gardens – Jackie Bennett
- War Gardens – Lalage Snow
- Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life: Under the Microscope – Colin Salter
- Can Anything Stop Slugs? – Guy Barter
Upcoming titles
- The Hidden Horticulturists – Fiona Davison (April 2019)
- Wildlife Gardening for Everyone – Kate Bradbury (May 2019)
- 50 Plants You Can't Kill – Jamie Butterworth (2019)
- The Magic and Mystery of Trees – Jen Green, Claire McElfatrick (March 2019)
- How to Create Your Garden – Adam Frost
Practical gardening / reference books
Food books
- Novel Dishes for Vegetarian Households – Mary Pope (1893),
- Potato Cookery - 300 ways of preparing potatoes – Alfred Suzanne (1907),
- 282 Ways of Making a Salad – Bebe Daniels and Jill Allgood (1949)
- The Salad Garden – Joy Larkcom
- Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook – Sarah Raven
- Delia's Kitchen Garden – Delia Smith and Gay Search
For a full range of gardening books, please visit the
RHS Bookshop. In this programme, the panel is joined by James Armitage, Editor of
The Plant Review (formerly
The Plantsman).
Books mentioned in this programme
Contributors' first literary gardening experiences
- The Cuckoo Clock - Mrs Molesworth
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Garden Plants - Kenneth A Beckett
- The Amateur Gardener - Arthur Hellyer
Gardening fiction
- An Episode of Sparrows - Rumer Godden
- The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
- Spies - Michael Frayn
- Nature's Powers and Spells - Carry Akroyd
Classics
- The Vegetable Garden Displayed - RHS
- Colour in the Winter Garden - Graham Stuart Thomas
- Surreal Eden - Margaret Hooks
- RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening
Modern titles
Books for presents
For a full range of gardening books, please visit the RHS Bookshop. In this programme the panel is joined by Mike Grant, who was Editor of The Plantsman (now The Plant Review) for more than a decade until 2018.
Books mentioned in this programme
Classics
Modern titles
Books for presents
For a full range of gardening books, please visit the RHS Bookshop. In this programme the panel is joined by Mike Grant, who was Editor of The Plantsman (now The Plant Review) for more than a decade until 2018.
Useful links
The Plant Review – published quarterly, this premier publication provides in-depth, horticultural information written by experts.
RHS Lindley Libraries – explore our world-class collections of current and historical books, journals and botanical drawings.
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