Monday 20 May 2019

RHS Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them Book Review And Giveaway (Sent by Wild Nature Press)

Wild Nature Press have two excellent book releases for children this spring and they've sent us a copy of each for review, plus I'll be giving away a copy to one of my readers. Gorgeous large scale hardbacked books full of information and colour images, they're perfect for any youngster who wants to 'grow your own'. Spectacular Plants covers exactly what you'd imagine - the strangest, oddest, most colourful and carnivorous plants you can grow at home...

RHS Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them Book cover showing drawn images of plants

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).
RHS Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them review contents page

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.

RHS Spectacular Plants inside page with general plant information

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!

How to grow carnivorous plants introduction for children text blocks and images

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!

RHS Spectacular Plants pool species introduction images and text blocks

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.


Wild Nature Press have also offered a copy of Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them for one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway is by Gleam form below. No entries are mandatory, but each extra task performed earns extra entries into the random draw. Your personal information will ONLY be used to administrate this giveaway and not stored or shared.

You can find a link to help with Gleam forms and see my current UK Giveaways here, including gaming/space bedding and Amazing Pets. Full terms and conditions are at the bottom of the Gleam form. The giveaway is only open to UK entrants and will end at midnight Sunday 16th June.

RHS Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them Book Giveaway (Age 8-12+)


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.

39 comments:

  1. My umberella tree - I 've had it 20 years and everyone comments HOW beautiful it is - id love to GROW my own Cactus

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  2. Fittonia. Beautiful, easy to grow and versatile.

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  3. I'd love to grow a Bird of Paradise, or a money tree!

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  4. I would love to grow a venus fly-trap.

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  5. Robert Mark Ward22 May 2019 at 05:13

    I've never been very good in the garden but did manage to grow some potatoes once.

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  6. The 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.

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  7. I have grown a very tall sunflower x

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  8. an avocado, from a aldi avocado - its nearly 3 feet tall now

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  9. We are growing a chilli plant and we love it!

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  10. I have grown a climbing rose and it is now taller than me!

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  11. Margaret Clarkson
    I would love to grow a tall sunflower

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  12. I grew a lemon tree from a lemon pip - it never had fruit though

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  13. Id love to grow a huge sunflower xx

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  14. I used to grow Pacific Giant delphiniums that were absolutely huge and utterly magnificent.

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  15. My 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!

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  16. I love growing cacti, easy to care for and often survive a fall when my son accidentally knocks them over!

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  17. I would love to grow a sunflower.

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  18. I would love to grow an avocado plant

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  19. We 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!

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  20. I'm a bit useless with any plants, I do get a couple of toms from a plant my friend gives me

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  21. I would love to grow a Venus Fly Trap!

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  22. I have never grown anything impressive, but I would love to try

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  23. I'd love to grow a Magnolia tree, they're so beautiful!

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  24. I would love to grow some vegetables

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  25. A Blackcurrant plant.

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  26. I grew a huge pumpkin plant two years ago and got one large pumpkin from it!

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  27. A sunflower they are gorgeous flowers.

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  28. venus fly trap, do they do one like this for spiders

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  29. We had a sunflower that grew really tall

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  30. I 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

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  31. I had a cactus with sunglasses on and a Mexican sombrero!

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  32. champaklal Lad16 June 2019 at 18:45

    Oriental Lily Tree Plant

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  33. love growing tulips

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  34. A Venus Fly trap which actually grew quite big xxx (Ruth Wollerton)

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  35. We are growing Sun Flowers in the rain...

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  36. i 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

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  37. When 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.

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  38. A fabulous spider plant that is now 15 years old!

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