Our Books about Gardening in Spain
The following books are based on their combined 50 years of gardening in Spain both on the coastal plain and in colder inland valleys. These well illustrated books are designed to be useful to resident and absentee experienced or beginner gardeners owning houses or apartments in Spain or other Mediterranean climate situations.
Handscombe's Gardening Books
Living Well From Our Mediterranean Garden
The book explains how Dick and his wife Clodagh developed a colourful productive and therapeutic Mediterranean garden in order to live well in terms of mental and physical health, gastronomy and family economics. It is based on the authors 25 years of gardening experience and experiments in a once self sufficient Spanish valley that has in that time abandoned most of its’ agricultural heritage and permitted the building of several hundred legal and illegal houses.
The concepts and practices described will be of interest to those who seek to enjoy the opportunities and benefits of living in a Mediterranean climate to the full, whether their garden is around a villa or town house, a finca or country house or restricted to the terraces of an apartment or village house.
Published September 2011 ISBN 978 84 615 3825 6 Spanish Price 3.90 Euros
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Apartment Gardening Mediterranean Style – Terraces, balconies and windowsills
A comprehensive guide for Spanish apartment dwellers on gardening on terraces, balconies and windowsills in 12 parts. 216 pages published in April 2010
Includes explanation of how apartment plants can be best purchased, planted and cared for. Includes practical guides to composts, watering, feeding, preventing and dealing with pests and diseases etc..
Published by Santana Books in April 2010. Spanish price is 14.90 euros.
ISBN 978-84-89954-86-1
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Your Garden in Spain – From planning to planting and maintenance
‘Your Garden in Spain – From planning to planting and maintenance’ ISBN 978-84-89954-670. A comprehensive practical guide to creating a garden that is colourful, interesting and productive and in tune with the owners new Spanish lifestyle and budget.
Based on earlier highly successful Your Garden in Spain book. Numerous useful photographs and descriptions of 400 plants most likely to thrive in typical Spanish locations on the mainland and islands, regional climates and soils.
Published by Santana Books in May 2007 . Spanish price 19.90 euros.Read More About: Your Garden in Spain
Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain – From sprouting seeds to giant pumpkin
‘Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain – From sprouting seeds to giant pumpkins’. ISBN 978-84-89954-53-3. Includes ideas for growing vegetables on a mini scale of less than one square metre as well as in raised beds and on larger vegetable plots. Natural,ecological and organic approaches are described throughout. Published by Santana Books in December 2006. Spanish price 16.90 euros Read More About: Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain
Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain – from strawberries to oranges and water melons
‘Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain – from strawberries to oranges and water melons’, ISBN 978-84-89954-62-5. Includes ideas for growing fruit on a mini scale of less than one square metre as well as in larger raised beds,mixed gardens and orchards. A natural, ecological and organic approach is described throughout. Published by Santana Books in February 2007. Spanish price 16.90 euros Read More About: Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain
A Special Offer
”Living Well from Our Mediterranean Garden” By Dick Handscombe.
This has just been published in September. It is self published and has forty information packed pages. The ISBN is 978-84-615-3825-6. This is a natural follow up to the earlier books or can be usefully read as a stand alone book. It demonstrates how a holistic Mediterranean garden has significant mental and phisical health, gastronomy and family ecomic benifits. Includes novel self audit questionaires. Recommended price is 3.90 Euros. However there is a signicant launch offer if you purchase one of the above books. In practice you will recieve a free copy for yourself and friends with each book purchased.
Practical Gardening on the Costa – Your personal guide
‘Practical Gardening on the Costa – Your personal guide’. ISBN 84-607-2827-7. Published by Costa Blanca News S.L.in 2001. No longer in print but second hand copies will be found on Amazon etc.
Obtaining our Spanish and Mediterranean gardening books
The books are available from major high street bookshops and from internet mail order sites including this site, Santana Books, Bookworld España and Amazon. Autographed books are only available from this site – Click after each book above to initiate the buying process.
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Non gardening books to read in your garden
Dick has recently joined the Costa Blanca Writers group of published authors. On www.costablancawriters.com you can see the wide range of members books available for reading quietly in the enviable relaxing villa or apartment garden produced by following the creative and practical ideas included in Dick and Clodagh’s gardening books.