New London garden book - Kitchen Garden Magazine

London is home to over three million gardens, from pocket handkerchief front yards to large historic sites.

Metropolitan gardening has a character all of its own: allotments and community gardens allow gardenless urbanites to grow their own food, guerrilla gardeners convert neglected public land into productive spaces, and vertical planting techniques and container and small-space gardens green over the grey.

The London Garden Book A–Z, by Abigail Willis (ISBN 9781902910598), has just been released in its second edition. Its 384 pages celebrate the wealth of London’s gardens, with specially commissioned photographs, reviews, practical gardening advice, and listings of horticultural societies, projects and plant nurseries. It’s available from good bookshops or from Metro Publications at http://metropublications.com/products/the-london-garden-book-a-z price £14.99 (RRP £16.99).

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Steve Ott

Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.