Genus Gardenwear A Year in a Cottage Garden

From Genus Gardenwear, A Year in a Cottage Garden is a garden book shaped by the lived experience of Field Cottage and the seasonal writing of Joff Elphick. Created by owner Sue O’Neil and developed with Elphick, a head gardener and garden writer, Field Cottage is presented as a Gloucestershire garden formed through skill, patience and curiosity.

Gathering twelve months of Joff’s weekly blogs, In the Genus Garden, this volume follows the changing character of the garden through the year. Practical seasonal gardening advice sits alongside horticultural anecdotes, plant folklore and thoughtful observations, offering a rich portrait of the traditional English cottage garden. Readers are taken from the first signs of spring in March through sowing, planting, harvesting and planning, and on into winter before the earliest stirrings of a new gardening year. With sheltered herbaceous borders, raised vegetable beds, fruit cages, greenhouses, an orchard and a woodland garden all part of the story, it is a considered read for keen gardeners and anyone drawn to the rhythm of the seasons.

Key features

• Garden book from Genus Gardenwear
• Collects twelve months of weekly blogs by Joff Elphick
• Includes practical seasonal gardening advice
• Features horticultural anecdotes, plant folklore and observations
• Follows the garden from March through winter and into the new year
• Centred on Field Cottage, a Gloucestershire cottage garden of notable variety

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