Product Description

Eager to wear gardening gloves but feel lost in the garden? Full of practical tips and detailed step-by step instructions, "The First-Time Gardener" is the beginner's guide to gardening. Kim Wilde turned from show biz to gardening and learned from scratch to become a recognised expert in the field. Beautifully illustrated throughout this one-stop guide will teach you the very basics of what gardening is about. Introduction: Why gardening can be so rewarding? Why it's important not to expect too much too soon? Why planning is the key Details of each essential garden technique? Main soil types and the benefits; drawbacks of each; Fundamental tools; Guide to plant terms - demystifying words such as perennial, biennial, bulbs, rhizomes and many more. The book assumes no prior knowledge and takes you through the basics of planning a garden, choosing plants and turning your ideas into reality - including how to make the most of climbers, containers, and hanging baskets. But it will also help you assess what you've already got in your garden. Not all gardens should be created from scratch, as per the TV makeovers. In fact, if you can wait a while to see what happens in your new garden, then you may find you've inherited some weird and wonderful plants. Contents include: Planning a garden; Tips on planting, pruning and propagation; Hard landscaping; Choosing plants; Taking care of your garden - digging, weeding, watering and feeding; Gardening techniques; Green gardening; Growing fruit, vegetables and herbs; Trouble shooting and pest control; The possible pitfalls and helping you to identify what's gone wrong and how to resolve it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196365 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
praise for 'Gardening with Children': "a guide full to bursting with wonderful ideas for getting children immersed in gardening! There are plenty of illustrations showing the author and her children getting well stuck into the tasks in hand, and the instructions are clear and unfussy. With this many ideas for garden projects, I can see many adults filching her ideas" - Sue Baker, Publishing News

Amateur Gardening, April 2006
If it's inspiration and confidence you're after then this hardback has it in bucketfuls

Synopsis
Eager to wear gardening gloves but feel lost in the garden? Full of practical tips and detailed step-by step instructions, "The First-Time Gardener" is the beginner's guide to gardening. Kim Wilde turned from show biz to gardening and learned from scratch to become a recognised expert in the field. Beautifully illustrated throughout this one-stop guide will teach you the very basics of what gardening is about. Introduction: Why gardening can be so rewarding? Why it's important not to expect too much too soon? Why planning is the key Details of each essential garden technique? Main soil types and the benefits; drawbacks of each; Fundamental tools; Guide to plant terms - demystifying words such as perennial, biennial, bulbs, rhizomes and many more. The book assumes no prior knowledge and takes you through the basics of planning a garden, choosing plants and turning your ideas into reality - including how to make the most of climbers, containers, and hanging baskets. But it will also help you assess what you've already got in your garden. Not all gardens should be created from scratch, as per the TV makeovers.

In fact, if you can wait a while to see what happens in your new garden, then you may find you've inherited some weird and wonderful plants. Contents include: Planning a garden; Tips on planting, pruning and propagation; Hard landscaping; Choosing plants; Taking care of your garden - digging, weeding, watering and feeding; Gardening techniques; Green gardening; Growing fruit, vegetables and herbs; Trouble shooting and pest control; The possible pitfalls and helping you to identify what's gone wrong and how to resolve it.

Customer Reviews

actually a great book!
To be honest, I had my doubts about some of Kim's gardening projects when she first came on the scene. I liked her as a pop star, but I felt she got ahead in gardening a little too quickly. But with this book she proves herself. Enthusiastically written, full of sound ideas and excellent advice, this book is an enjoyable read for experienced and novice gardeners alike. She covers everything from basics to the current boom in architectural plants. Like all gardening books some of the photos are from archives and you see them everywhere, but there's plenty of inspirational stuff in there too make it a nice coffee table book. All in all I recommend it!

GARDENING with KIM WILDE
I read the book few days ago, i have to tell you its one of the best "Gardening book"There is, especialy for the begingers but Don't stop there, if you even a Proffesional Gardner this book realy inspires you to do more, very nice illustrated book Kim wilde shows step by step what you can do to make your Garden better place, Who can know better about "ART and FAIRYLAND" then Pop Star-Gardening guru Kim Wilde who have seen the World -im so impressed to learn from someone like her who knows so much and willing to share it with the world.