Perfect for readers aged around 8-12, even the contents page is exciting. This Royal Horticultural Society endorsed book starts with an explanation of how plants feed, grow and reproduce and then plants are split into sections:
Carnivorous Plants, Unbelievable Flowers, World's Smelliest Flowers, Funky Fruit & Veg, Sensitive Plants and then Unbelievable Spectacular Plants (including record breakers).
There is a lot of information on every page, broken into chunks and supported by full colour photographs and occasional colour line drawings. There are 'Golden Rules' to prevent you failing before you start and general advice for the new horticulturalist.
Throughout the entire book there are hints and tips that will help any young gardener grow any plant, as well as specific tips and advice on the species featured on that page. I don't think anyone can resist the allure of carnivorous plants!
This is a gorgeous book and at 160 pages crammed full it offers great value. I love that even if your child grows nothing more exciting than cress, they can still learn tips and tricks to grow far better cress!
Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them is written by Stewart McPherson, and published by Wild Nature Press. Available to buy now priced £14.99rrp in large format full colour hardback from all good bookshops, including online at Amazon*. If animals are more your thing, I'm also reviewing Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them.
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We were sent our copy of Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them by Stewart McPherson for review. *Amazon links are affiliate, which means I earn a few pence as a thank you for my time if you order through my link, but you don't pay any extra. Some of the text is jumbled on the example pages, this is so that unscrupulous people don't just take photos and print it out - that would be stealing.
My umberella tree - I 've had it 20 years and everyone comments HOW beautiful it is - id love to GROW my own Cactus
ReplyDeleteFittonia. Beautiful, easy to grow and versatile.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to grow a Bird of Paradise, or a money tree!
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow a venus fly-trap.
ReplyDeleteI've never been very good in the garden but did manage to grow some potatoes once.
ReplyDeleteThe most spectacular was probably a huge sunflower, but vegetables are my passion. May is a really busy month for me getting all my seeds sown and seedlings planted. It’s starting to look pretty good just now, another month and I’ll have a vegetable jungle.
ReplyDeleteI have grown a very tall sunflower x
ReplyDeletean avocado, from a aldi avocado - its nearly 3 feet tall now
ReplyDeleteWe are growing a chilli plant and we love it!
ReplyDeleteI have grown a climbing rose and it is now taller than me!
ReplyDeleteMargaret Clarkson
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow a tall sunflower
I grew a lemon tree from a lemon pip - it never had fruit though
ReplyDeleteId love to grow a huge sunflower xx
ReplyDeleteI used to grow Pacific Giant delphiniums that were absolutely huge and utterly magnificent.
ReplyDeleteMy grandma used to grow the most enormous Christmas cactuses. About 30 years ago when I was moving into my first home she gave me a cutting from one of them in a little pot- it's still going strong today! And yes, it's enormous!
ReplyDeleteI love growing cacti, easy to care for and often survive a fall when my son accidentally knocks them over!
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow a sunflower.
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow an avocado plant
ReplyDeleteWe have a lovely mock orange tree in our front garden. It was here when we moved in so we didn't plant it but it's still alive so I think that counts lol. The birds seem to love it!
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit useless with any plants, I do get a couple of toms from a plant my friend gives me
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow a Venus Fly Trap!
ReplyDeleteI have never grown anything impressive, but I would love to try
ReplyDeleteI'd love to grow a Magnolia tree, they're so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI would love to grow some vegetables
ReplyDeleteA Blackcurrant plant.
ReplyDeleteI grew a huge pumpkin plant two years ago and got one large pumpkin from it!
ReplyDeleteA venus fly trap
ReplyDeleteA sunflower they are gorgeous flowers.
ReplyDeletevenus fly trap, do they do one like this for spiders
ReplyDeleteWe had a sunflower that grew really tall
ReplyDeleteI have a Christmas Cacti that was a cutting from a plant belonging to my mother it's huge and is 45 years old I'd like to grow some cacti from seed with my little grandson he loves growing things
ReplyDeleteI had a cactus with sunglasses on and a Mexican sombrero!
ReplyDeleteOriental Lily Tree Plant
ReplyDeletelove growing tulips
ReplyDeleteA Venus Fly trap which actually grew quite big xxx (Ruth Wollerton)
ReplyDeleteWe are growing Sun Flowers in the rain...
ReplyDeletei love my houseplants altho im not hugely green fingered i still have my poinsettia from xmas and its got really big im hoping to have it flower again but no clue how i also have recently stared to learn about orchids and have a lovely one on my desk
ReplyDeleteWhen I was first married I grew an enormous cheese plant in the living room. When we moved house we had to find it a new owner as the removal company refused to take it with us.
ReplyDeleteA fabulous spider plant that is now 15 years old!
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