Growing food is different in the city: life is faster and space is tight. So it is vital to focus on only the most rewarding edible plants. In "The Urban Kitchen Gardener", Tom Moggach selects his best city crops, from the familiar chillies and strawberries to the more unusual Japanese shiso and Mexican mouse melons. For each entry, Tom offers practical advice on growing, picking, preserving and cooking your harvest. More than 150 delicious recipe ideas include Coriander and Coconut Chutney, Chilli Corn Bread, Shiso Granita and cocktails such as a Honey and Basil Daiquiri. He also shares expert advice for success with pots and containers, and on windowsills, patios, balconies, roof gardens, back gardens and allotments. Other chapters cover seed saving and green gardening. This is an inspirational guide to making the most of your urban plot, whatever its size.

Reviews: 
'Chillies on the window ledge and mouse melons on the patio. Tom Moggach sees food growing potential everywhere and shows you how to turn it into imaginative meals.' Lindsey Bareham, food writer 

 'Tom has captured his knowledge, vast experience and infectious passion for growing and cooking in this exciting new book for urban gardeners. He shows that even the smallest of outdoor spaces can be productive and hugely rewarding.' Joe Swift, garden designer and broadcaster


Author Biography: Tom Moggach runs City Leaf, an urban gardening company in London, and teaches people of all ages to grow and cook their own food. As a food journalist, he has written for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times and has reported for The Food Programme (Radio 4). He lives in London with his wife and daughter.                                            

After a career as a renowned fashion designer in Paris and New York, Nicole de Vésian (1916-1996) moved to Provence in the 1980s and, at the age of 70, began creating a series of superbly proportioned and innovative gardens.

Classically French in form (even if devoid of symmetry), pared down without being austere and in profound harmony with the surrounding countryside, these green and grey tapestries quickly came to inspire gardeners and garden designers the world over.

Indeed, few French gardens are as widely imitated as those of Vésian; as Louisa Jones writes, "she had a feeling for space just as a musician has a good ear."

This monograph is the first devoted to Vésian's work, and offers testimonies, reflections and full-color views of her most celebrated creations, including her own celebrated garden, La Louve, in the hilltop village of Bonnieux.

Release Date: April 2012

Whether you want to reduce your carbon footprint, save money, become more self-sufficient or just enjoy the unique taste of fresh produce, there has never been a better time to create a kitchen garden. Join passionate designer and green-gardener Kate Herd on her journey around Australia to eighteen diverse kitchen gardens, from subtropical Queensland to the arid zone of central Australia, from the suburbs of Adelaide to the countryside of rural Victoria and Tasmania. Some of the gardens belong to well-known personalities such as Leonie Norrington and Josh Byrne, while many are the creation of enthusiastic amateurs. For each, Kate provides a detailed garden plan, a brief history of the garden, the people who tend it and a description of how they have overcome the challenges of difficult climates and soil types. There are tips on innovative irrigation techniques, environmentally friendly pest management and how to create a garden from recycled objects, with an overall emphasis on sustainability. With stunning photography by Simon Griffiths, Kitchen Gardens of Australia is as lovely as it is practical.

From the luxurious to the accessible, the sustainable and the edible, Jamie Durie's innovative garden designs have changed the way we look at gardens. A pioneer of the Outdoor Room concept, Durie's designs are as much about the humans who live in them as they are about the concepts. This philosophy - communicated through his award-winning designs, television shows, books, magazine and endless editorials across the globe - has inspired a whole new generation to create a more meaningful connection to their outdoor spaces. Jamie Durie's 100 Gardens features over 50 stunning new garden designs, as well as a hand-picked selection of his most powerful designs, that together highlight Durie's most significant and inspiring work to date.

Review: 'Jamie Durie has quite simply changed the way we live outdoors, the backyard is a better place since he's come into our lives, we see so much more opportunity to make it an extension of our home - and he does it with such genuine passion that it's impossible not to be caught up in, and inspired by, his energy.' - Wendy Moore, Editor-in-Chief, Home Beautiful, Your Garden and The Outdoor Room magazines.

Author Biography: Jamie Durie is a qualified horticulturalist, international award-winning landscape designer and has appeared on over 30 television shows worldwide. Jamie has been designing gardens since 1998, and has been awarded 33 garden design awards both nationally and internationally. He is the author of Patio, The Outdoor Room, The Source Book editions 1 and 2, Outdoor Kids, Inspired, Outside and Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room.                                            

Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember run a successful business installing edible gardens: in polystyrene boxes on balconies, in crates you can put anywhere in your backyard, or by creating no-dig, raised garden beds. After years of helping clients set up spaces to grow their own fruit and vegetables they believe anyone can create their own little edible garden, in almost any area. And in this easy-to-use guide they show you how simple it is! Fundamentals such as soil, climate, watering, composting, worm farms, saving and sowing seeds, and raised garden beds and crates are all discussed comprehensively - each with a fully illustrated step-by-step activity to help you create your own little veggie patch. The complete A-Z of Edible Plants gives you vital information on more than 40 vegetables (and fruit trees), including detailed planting information, ongoing maintenance advice, tips on best companions and when to harvest. And the family activities scattered throughout the book will get the kids involved too, whether it's Making a Scarecrow, Building a Spud Tower or Growing Beans in a Bean Can.

Thousands of gardeners across Australia admire the Paul Bangay look. His gardens are balanced, with a careful use of space, proportion and above all, the right plant in the right location. In one garden precise pleached hedging meets billowing beds of perennials; in another, a rustic climber scrambles wildly up a trellis beside a formal rose garden; in still another, the planting is restrained to two kinds of natives only, as the landscape tumbles towards the sea. Paul Bangay's Guide to Plants offers an insight into how Paul chooses plants for specific locations and for specific purposes. Rich with anecdotes about what has worked and what hasn't over his years, and with a special focus on water-wise plants for our changing climate, this collection is Paul's A-list of plants. Whether for an inner-city courtyard or a rambling rural estate, this companion to the Garden Design Handbook contains the practical advice readers need to give their own patch of green the elegant Paul Bangay look.


Author Biography: Paul Bangay is the author of The Defined Garden, The Boxed Garden, The Balanced Garden and The Enchanted Garden.                                            

Australian landscape designer Peter Fudge is known for his classic approach to garden making, developed around the principles of scale, perspective, restraint and formality. This lavishly photographed book features 18 of his garden designs, ranging from tiny urban courtyards to sprawling country properties. Peter Fudge s stories of the creation, building and planting of these gardens, drawing on over twenty years experience, provide information and inspiration for anyone keen to start, or simply refurbish, their own garden. For each example, he describes the challenges of site, aspect and microclimate, and explains the process of designing a garden to complement the architecture of the home and the lifestyle of the family who lives there.Timeless offers additional practical advice on planting, garden maintenance, and hard and soft landscaping techniques and materials. A strong theme of the book is the selection and combination of plants from the great range of drought-tolerant species now available.Above all, this book recognises that beautiful gardens have the potential to enrich and nurture the soul, and it shows us ways in which we can all achieve harmonious, peaceful, elegant and timeless outdoor spaces.