Bonus episode 1: Introducing 'Garden Words' from the James & Joe Garden Show

A new bonus series for Garden Collective members.

Gardens, Annotated: Chris Young on why great gardens work

For Book Month, Grace interviews Chris Young, the former head of publishing at the RHS about his new book: Gardens, Annotated. 200 gardens, taken apart, understood, and explained.

Of spade and pen

Noel Kingsbury has written some of the most revolutionary gardening books of the last thirty years. He takes us through the highs and lows, and gives us a glimpse of the future of horticultural publishing.

What is the greatest 'garden book'?

So often garden writing is writing about gardening, but Sandra Lawrence explores the atmospheric genre of writing about gardens. As settings for love, loss and war, or as love letters to a place, here are four novels to put on your list for the darker months.

A Field Guide to Wonder

There is magic in books. Jan Etherington thought she had left it behind when she fell in love with a gardener, but a slim volume of 'juvenile non-fiction' has opened up a whole new world.

Writing the portrait of a garden

Chatsworth is a garden that holds a special place in many hearts, and Kendra explores how two books have charted its incredible history and left a trail of clues of how its atmosphere was created, and how it was very nearly spoiled.

Question Time: Pants, Poetry, and Plants to Ruin Your Nemesis

What underwear should a professional gardener wear? Nobody at Gardeners' Question Time is going to touch that one. Luckily, you have us.

How not to Garden: October

Ann-Marie’s beret is back, Laetitia’s had a fallow year, and neither of them is panicking. Nor should you. Here's How Not to Garden in October.

On why I stopped writing: when a virtue becomes a vice

As Book Month at the Garden Collective picks up pace, Grace Alexander reflects on how writing can deepen the connection between us and our gardens, and what happens when it stops being fun.

Brought to Book

Alan is under pressure to reduce his cherished book collection. It's a painful process, but there are some books with which he would simply never part. Here's his list of the books he goes back to again and again.

Should You Put a Swimming Pool in a British Garden?

Is a swimming pool in a British garden a brilliant idea or a very expensive mosquito pit? With summers getting hotter, the phone is ringing with people who suddenly want one. Cue a deep sigh.

Should you meet your heroes?

Matthew Pottage scans his shelves and realises he has met several of his horticultural heroes. Who lived up to his expectations, who made him laugh, and who was the one author who got away?