Introducing The Gardening Kind Editions
A growing library of beautifully designed mini magazines - part handbook, part photo inspiration. Ready to download today.
Hello there my fellow plant wranglers!
Today, I’m delighted to introduce something new: The Gardening Kind Editions. These are my beautifully designed mini magazines, part handbook and part photo inspiration, and the first three are now ready for you to download.
Paid subscribers get every Edition free as part of your subscription, collected together on a brand new page called Off The Shelf. If you’re a free subscriber, you can still enjoy the Editions by purchasing them individually from my new shop.
Read on for more details…
More About The Editions
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new project: taking some of my recent newsletters and reimagining them as photo-rich Editions that you can download and keep.
Each Edition is styled like a glossy magazine, with room to linger over the photography as if you were leafing through a favourite coffee-table read. Fonts are comfortably large, the spacing generous, and the whole design light and easy to browse.
The first three Editions include:
The Courtyard Garden (Very popular!)
Slug-Proof Plants
The Summer Container Garden
They are delivered as PDF files, so you can download and read offline. Perfect in the Apple Books app, or on any computer, iPad, or tablet (Kindle tips further down).
So, how much are they?
PAID subscribers get the Editions FREE as part of your subscription. Consider it a handsome perk and a thank-you for supporting my writing in these early days. You’ll now see a new tab on my homepage called Off The Shelf. All the Editions will live there, ready to download.
Simply tap the download button beneath the Edition that you want and hey presto, it will open in your browser to read straight away, or you can save it to your device for later.
FREE subscribers can purchase Editions individually, for roughly the same price as a single monthly subscription. They are hosted on my new Payhip shop.
So, if you would love to read all about my Courtyard Garden design but do not fancy a monthly subscription (and I completely understand, as there are so many wonderful writers out there), you can now simply purchase this Edition as a one-off.
“All my questions about the Courtyard Garden answered, alongside gorgeous, inspiring photography - of course I just had to have it! Lovely work Elliott, thank you.” (@gran_in_the_forest)
What’s next?
The next big Edition is all about spring bulbs: what they are, how to plant them, dealing with pests, and everything I have learned about creating stunning displays, from the pure white Courtyard Garden to the vibrant Terrace - although for this coming season, I am opting for calm this season with pinks, purples, and apricots.
And in this weekend’s newsletter, I’ll be reviewing my year in the Kitchen Garden. What worked. What failed. What I learned. And what I will be changing for next season.
Happy reading (and happy planting),
Elliott 🌱
For Kindle Readers
If you prefer reading on a Kindle, here’s how to do it:
Find your Kindle email address (via your Amazon account: Account and Lists → Your Devices and Content → Manage Devices).
Approve your personal email address.
Email the PDF to your Kindle.
Sync your Kindle.
Please note: PDFs don’t always display perfectly on Kindle, so for the best reading experience I’d recommend a tablet or computer.
Thankyou for these - will make lovely weekend reading. A seed to plant for the future would be year round container interest in shady areas (well it can’t just be me!). I have the extremes of a south facing and north facing terrace…. Trying to bump up my cuttings of plectranthus & pellie tormentosum for next year but the areas always look miserable in winter 💚💚💚
These really are gorgeous. I am very much looking forward to the next one about spring bulbs. If it’s not too late, could I make a plea to include something about quantities of bulbs to pot for us novice bulb in pot gardeners please? And for the different sized bulbs too. I see so many different bits of advice and have seen some saying to plant the same number of bulbs as the size of the pot, but is that width or depth?? 😅🧐. I fear I completely over stuffed some of my pots last year and they looked a total mess but as a whole year has gone past I cannot remember for the life of me how many I planted to then work out what I need to do this year 🙈🙇♀️. Lesson learned is to write things down, but I keep forgetting 🤭.