The Gardening Kind Editions
These are the beautifully designed digital booklets available in my new PayHip shop. I’ll keep this page updated as new ebooks are released. Like my garden, these guides are carefully tended. They’re protected by copyright, so please keep them for your personal use and don’t set them loose on the internet. 🌱
Happy reading (and happy planting),
Elliott
The Courtyard Garden: A Pocket of Calm (with Galvanised Glamour)
About this guide
You know that feeling when you come home and the front of the house just welcomes you? That’s what the Courtyard Garden is for me.
At heart, it’s a gravelled corner off the driveway. Yet over the years it has become one of the most-loved spaces in my garden and a firm favourite with my Instagram followers. Inspired by visits to Sissinghurst and Great Dixter, this romantic mash-up of Vita Sackville-West’s iconic White Garden and Dixter’s unforgettable porch is now a sun-drenched haven of pots, climbers, and roses.
This beautifully designed 27-page PDF blends story, practical advice, plant list, and richly illustrated photography. It’s part tour, part inspiration, part manual, showing how even the smallest space can feel elegant, serene, and abundant.
What’s inside
The story of how the Courtyard Garden was created and evolved
Layering pots and plants for structure and flow
Planting combinations in whites and greens, with seasonal highlights
Practical tips on containers, watering, and pruning
Inspiration drawn from Sissinghurst and Great Dixter
Beautiful photography throughout — full spreads and close-up details
Why you’ll love it
Practical and inspiring, whether you’re working with a courtyard, terrace, or compact patio
Packed with ideas you can adapt to your own space
A richly illustrated 27-page PDF to enjoy on your tablet, laptop, or as a printed keepsake
You will get a PDF (27MB) file
© Elliott Neep, The Gardening Kind 2025. All rights reserved. This guide is for subscriber or purchaser use only.
Slug-Proof Plants: What they won’t munch
About this guide
Slugs and snails: every gardener’s nemesis. They chew through borders, turn prized hostas into lace doilies, and leave trails of heartbreak in their wake.
This 22-page PDF offers practical, real-world advice from my own garden on plants that slugs leave well alone (or at least mostly ignore). It’s packed with experience, humour, and photography — a guide to building beautiful, resilient borders without resorting to chemicals.
Part plant list, part survival manual, part gentle rant against molluscs — this is one for every gardener who’s ever gone out in the morning to find devastation where there used to be leaves.
What’s inside
A practical list of slug-resistant plants for borders, containers, and shady corners
Bonus section: plants slugs love (grow at your peril!)
Non-chemical slug control methods that actually work
Tips for encouraging natural allies like frogs, hedgehogs, and ground beetles
Beautiful photography throughout, taken in my own garden
Light-hearted humour to keep your spirits up when the slugs come out at night
Why you’ll love it
Turns frustration into action: clear solutions for healthier borders
Rooted in lived experience, not just recycled internet lists
A richly illustrated 22-page PDF you can enjoy on your tablet, laptop, or as a printable guide for the shed
You will get a PDF (21MB) file
© Elliott Neep, The Gardening Kind 2025. All rights reserved. This guide is for subscriber or purchaser use only.
The Summer Container Garden: Bright Blooms and Big Pots
About this guide
Bring your garden to life with bold summer containers that thrive in full sun.
This beautifully designed 14-page PDF guide is part inspiration, part practical manual. Inside you’ll find my simple philosophy for container gardening, the compost and watering strategies that keep pots flourishing through heatwaves, and my favourite tried-and-tested plants for summer-long colour.
It’s richly illustrated with stunning photography from my own garden — full spreads, close-ups, and plenty of inspiration to spark your own ideas.
What’s inside
Keep It Simple: why one plant per pot makes the biggest impact
Compost mixes and watering tips for healthy roots and happy blooms
My top six summer container plants, from salvias to dahlias
A printable summer container checklist
Beautiful photography throughout, with full-page spreads and details from my terrace and courtyard
Why you’ll love it
Easy to follow, whether you’re new to gardening or a seasoned plant-hoarder
Practical tips you can put into practice right away
A richly illustrated 14-page PDF to enjoy on your tablet or print at home
You will get a PDF (8MB) file
© Elliott Neep, The Gardening Kind 2025. All rights reserved. This guide is for subscriber or purchaser use only.