RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening and RHS Small Garden Handbook

This two-book collection brings together practical guidance from the Royal Horticultural Society and a dedicated handbook for making the most of compact outdoor spaces. RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening is positioned as an essential companion for anyone taking their first steps, offering support with planning and planting to help new gardeners feel more confident.

RHS Small Garden Handbook by Andrew Wilson focuses on small plots, drawing on RHS experience in growing, planting, landscaping and design. It outlines how to assess a space and introduces design principles, explaining how choices around layout, colour and texture can shape the finished result, alongside ideas intended to help create a greater sense of space.

Included titles

• RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening
• RHS Small Garden Handbook

Key details

• Two-book collection set
• Includes a beginner-focused gardening guide from the Royal Horticultural Society
• Includes a small-garden handbook by Andrew Wilson
• Step-by-step instructions and clear images are referenced for the beginner guide
• Covers assessing a plot and core design principles for small spaces

Synopses

RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening

Created for those starting out, this handbook aims to make early decisions around plotting and planting feel more manageable. It presents simple step-by-step instructions with clear images, supported by RHS expertise, to help you work towards a garden you can enjoy throughout the year.

RHS Small Garden Handbook

An all-in-one guide for small space gardeners, this book begins with assessing your plot, including soil, orientation, microclimate, existing materials and proportions. It then sets out principles of good design, showing how layout, colour and texture influence the final look, with advice on boundaries, hedges and fences, plus ideas for containers and storage.