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RHS: A NATION IN BLOOM by Matthew Briggs (White Lion £25)

RATHER than drumming your green fingers in anticipation of the Chelsea Flower Show, why not have a root around the Royal Horticultural Society’s latest offering: A Nation In Bloom. Written by Matthew Biggs, a regular panellist on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, with a foreword from His Horticultural Highness Alan Titchmarsh, this book presents a behind-the-scenes view of the RHS and shows off the best of British gardening. Open it at any page and be transported to green Britain at its finest.