{"title":"Books by Ann Treneman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784729318","title":"RHS Greener Gardening: Containers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe complete primer on how to make an eco-friendly container garden.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This complete primer on how to make an eco-friendly container garden is dedicated to showing that everyone can have a garden, no matter the size, that can benefit the planet.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRHS Greener Gardening: Containers \u003c\/i\u003eguides you through greener choices when it comes to creating a container garden including materials, design, plant choice and maintenance. A few pots on the patio or a window box can become a dynamic mini eco system. A balcony garden can attract wildlife. With the right plants to choose from, a patio can hold an orchard. It's all a matter of 'thinking green', using recycled materials when possible, being wildlife-friendly, choosing plants that will avoid waste, and gardening sustainably.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Featuring an easy-to-follow guide to green techniques as well as a helpful series of plant profiles, this is the perfect handbook for a sustainable container garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sections include\u003cbr\u003e - Setting up your container garden\u003cbr\u003e - Container gardening techniques: sourcing plants, containers \u0026amp; contents, watering, feeding \u0026amp; troubleshooting\u003cbr\u003e - Creating containers: growing in groups, choosing a theme, how to create a map or a plan","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304069771637,"sku":"9781784729318","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784729318_d50475a0-998b-4836-b3ee-8d01d37d0243.jpg?v=1786025568"},{"product_id":"9781784729639","title":"Horti Curious","description":"\u003cb\u003eA glorious celebration of plants, gardens, and gardeners from \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e columnist Ann Treneman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A glorious celebration of all things horticultural - a treasure trove for garden-lovers from the creators of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eLatin for Gardeners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBotany for Gardeners\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This wonderfully diverse collection of facts, figures and foliage is a celebration of plants, gardens and gardening. All things horticultural can be found here, from the phantasmagorical to the practical and everything in between. Delve into the cut-throat world of the plant hunters. Meet the first garden gnomes. Find a recipe to create a cocktail flower garden. See the world through the eyes of a bee. Here is a book to inspire gardeners and dig down into all aspects of a horticultural world where plants can heal and hurt, attack and retreat, survive and even come back from the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beautifully illustrated with botanical diagrams and graphics, this miscellany will inform and delight gardeners and plant lovers. A 'pick and mix' of horticultural knowledge, it ranges from local to global, filled with maps, historical biographies, scientific explorations, plant profiles, fun and unbelievable facts, recipes and tips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305249157493,"sku":"9781784729639","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784729639_74a47f9b-5ef0-4e72-9f6e-c4c1fcef2b36.jpg?v=1786025583"},{"product_id":"9781846016806","title":"The RHS: The Garden Cure","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this feel-good treasure trove, \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003egardening columnist Ann Treneman offers up horticultural remedies to cure all ills, from broken hearts to bad backs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBad back? Sex life a bit dull? Tired all the time? Addicted to doom-scrolling?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Garden Cure \u003c\/i\u003eyou'll find solutions to all these modern-day maladies, and many more. Think of this book as a kind of green-fingered pharmacopoeia, a horticultural apothecary, an open-air medicine chest. Can gardening cure a broken heart? Can it help you take revenge on someone who has done you wrong? \u003ci\u003eG\u003c\/i\u003eardening columnist for the UK-based \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Treneman offers lessons in life galore - tales of snails and frogs, petals and perfumery all gathered from the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Imagine you could go into an apothecary and, instead of seeing rows of jars with their cures, there would be a display of all the plants from which they came. You'd be able to point down to a tiny snowdrop or up to a very large horse chestnut tree. There would be an entire herbaceous border, sweet peas and roses, daisies and foxgloves...That is what I imagined while putting together this most unusual apothecary's cabinet of a book. It's a thoroughly modern (and sumptuously illustrated) herbal that deals with problems of all kinds for the body, mind and the always important spirit. Many ailments or dilemmas are serious, others whimsical and then there are those that spring from the kind of lives we lead now. Sex, death, life and an overwhelming desire to hear beautiful music: there's a garden cure in this book for all of us.'\u003cbr\u003eAnn Treneman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369333698933,"sku":"9781846016806","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846016806_cf23a1a1-854b-4a16-80e3-4d07064f920c.jpg?v=1786034536"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ann-treneman.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}