The Essential Guide To Bulbs by Jenny Rose Carey

The cover of this book drew me in as someone who does enjoy photographing nature, I was hoping and was happily so surprised by some beautiful detailed photo's of flowers blooming from bulb. Packed with chapters of detail about how to plant and nurture bulbs as a beginner with only a few mere daffodils, a pineapple plant and a passionflower in my garden so far this was a great guide for learning more about how to plant and nurture the bulbs to be strong beautiful flowers definitely a handy book to refer to.

Potted by Annette Goliti Gutierrez & Mary Gray

This book drew me in originally because of the flower image on the cover as well as the subject overall as our house loves plants, flowers etc.

The writing is laid out in paragraphs and columns with large images to view and steps to follow. It utilizes space in the garden by introducing the idea of planters built into the wall not just plain designing pots.

The book is definitely for older readers as the use of saws and drills are required for a lot of the projects. Though there are some more simple plain to amazing design ideas for standard terracotta pots, family can pitch in and help there with supervision I'm sure.

Overall it was an interesting read and I with be trying these ideas with my mum in the future. I was intrigued to find out too that the authors owned between them a Pot shop and it's a unique idea because we can only ever find our pots we need in retail shops that are well known and obviously mass produced too.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me a copy to review!

Down To Earth by Monty Don

In this book Monty shares with us his years of knowledge from cultivating his own gardens over the years.

Talking about varieties of flowers, plants and shrubs, plans of colours, areas, and creating different types of gardens for the space you have available.

For our small garden we have some of the plants touched upon in this book and it's true that hardy plants come back year after year in beautiful displays of colour and passiflora climbers add great detail to our garden when they flourish in summer.

A great handy coffee table book with pictures of gardens Monty has designed to help annotate throughout!

Succulents by Robin Stockwell

Filled with history to inspiring growing plants at all, this book is beautiful with photographs that are high quality, rich with colours so vibrant you feel you're by the plants not just reading a book!

From pots, edgings, roof gardens and more we are shown that everywhere and anywhere can make way for a succulent or a few. There are plenty of tips and tricks to help get your own display started in many various forms you are sure to find inspiration for a modern, classic or own style succulent garden of some kind. There's even ideas for gifts, hair accessories along with funky indoor planter or outdoor hanging succulents too.

Complete with a guide to the various names along with pictures of the succulents you may come across, it is sure to teach you many things all in one handy book.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Plantopedia by Adrienne Barman

I was drawn to this plant guide as despite being a children's non fiction guide, the illustration is very eye-catching, set into colour pages such as all black plants, aquatic plants featuring animals too, dyes from plants, types of trees, fruit and veg, herbs and medicinal healing plants, this guide shares everything across all types of outdoor wildlife flower, tree and plant wise in a perfect way for children.

The guide also warns of the dangers plants like cactus can pose as well as a guide to poisonous plants to be wary of.

Packed with colours popping from the page and simple plant labelling for kids to follow, this book would be a great introduction to learning what plants are safe or not and maybe even get them involved in gardening too.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

How To Train Your Cactus by Tonwen Jones

I was inspired by my local botanical garden's cactus house to get a succulent myself to grow and keep at home. Months later at the end of last summer, I acquired a small succulent which is still with me and healthy to this day!

However I do wish I had this book back then as I would've saved hours researching how to care for it properly!

From discussing types of them available, tools you will need from a simple trowel and pot to gravel, guide to growing from seeds and how to train certain types of succulents to thrive daily.

Each plant type has a simple page of typed instructions on care and upkeep while the second page of the double page layout features a colourful illustration of what the chosen cacti/succulent looks like so you know what to expect it to grow like.

The cover is a simple green with a colourful cactus on the cover centred to stand out for the subject alike the title anyway. The guide is clear and concise for all ages to be able to follow easily and learn from.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!