A guide to month-by-month container gardening for those wishing to maximize all available gardening space. The author has managed to cultivate a fully functional vegetable garden on the roof terrace of her London home. She also includes innovative ideas such as creating a wormery and a compost bin.

The Window-Box Allotment: A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bennett, Penelope

Gardening & Landscape Design

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A guide to month-by-month container gardening for those wishing to maximize all available gardening space. The author has managed to cultivate a fully functional vegetable garden on the roof terrace of her London home. She also includes innovative ideas such as creating a wormery and a compost bin.

Window-Box Allotment: A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening

Ebury Press

A novella and a collection of short stories in one volume. The novella is a tale of an eccentric sculptress and her quarrel with her petty-minded neighbours. Some of the stories explore how casual cruelty or envy can destroy and others develop the theme of obsessive meticulousness.

Endangered Happiness & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton Limited

A revised, expanded and illustration edition of Penelope Bennett's popular guide to growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in a tiny space.In a space that measures only 5 x 2.5m (16 x 8 ft), outside her kitchen window, high up on a London rooftop, Penelope Bennett cultivates a garden that includes artichokes, beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, alpine strawberries, raspberries, herbs (and saffron), 31 kinds of potato and six different fruit trees. With Window-box Allotment as your guide you can make your outdoor space, however tiny, equally prolific. And as you learn how to do it you will be endlessly entertained.'Those who feel you need green fingers to grow vegetables should read Penelope Bennett's inspirational book.' Patti Barron, Evening Standard'Penelope Bennett is a true urban gardener and an inspiration to anyone with the tiniest of roof terraces or balconies.' Elspeth Thompson, Sunday Telegraph'Totally original but never fey, thoroughly practical and great fun . . . for beginners and old hands alike. Demystifies and encourages.' Jane Gardam'Written in a charming, individual, humorous voice.' Sybille Bedford

Window-box Allotment

White Lion Publishing

Bright illustrations, along with hand-lettered notes that discuss the behavior of parrots, chronicle the life of Turkey, a pet parrot who wakes her owner up each day, helps around the house, and, sometimes, goes to parties.

Town Parrot (Read and Wonder)

Children's Books

Candlewick