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Perfect book for this time of year.

Carol Klein one of our well loved British gardening experts, has just launched her second 'Grow Your Own' book
Grow Your Own Garden following on from Grow Your Own Veg which was a huge success. 

Carol was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1945, she originally trained as an art teacher and taught in schools in the London area before moving to Devon. There she taught at North Devon College before setting up her own plant nursery, Glebe Cottage Plants, so she knows a thing or two about growing from seed and cuttings.

In her new book, Grow Your Own Garden, she shows how most of the plants at Glebe Cottage in Devon were cultivated - not bought from a garden centre, but lovingly grown from cuttings and seeds.

This book is perfect for this time of year - lots of handy and useful information if the weather's looking OK to do a spot of gardening and start you growing your own plants (thus saving a fortune down at the garden centre in the process!).

But if its pouring down outside (just like this weekend) then its ideal to just sit down and look at the gorgeous pics of what your garden could look like (OK - thats a definite "COULD") with a nice cup of tea and a biccie!

Perfect for an aspirational - and admittedly fair-weather - gardener like myself. I'll definitely give it a go though and try to avoid spending £50 every time at the garden centre (once it stops raining). By Perfidious Albion

Learn how to grow new stock from root and stem cuttings, divide herbaceous perennials to make new plants and even develop ferns from spores in this beautiful book which will inspire as well as educate. If you've always shied away from propagation as too tricky for the amateur gardener, think again: this is the book to show you how easy it is to get started.

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