My Gardening Life
$52.00
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2026
Summary
A personal memoir from one of the country’s leading cooks on her passion for gardening, plants, and growing her own food
‘In another life I may have been a gardener’
Well-known and loved as a cookery writer and presenter, this is Mary Berry’s deeply personal account of the second great love of her life, gardening. She shares her love of growing plants, visiting gardens, and getting hands-on in her own plot.
A passion that was sparked in her childhood, Mary first starte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241726655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241726654 |
| Author: | Mary Berry |
| Publisher: | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
| Imprint: | DK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 969g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 172mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
Filled with insights into all her own gardens, growing tips, hard lessons, plant lists for all seasons, beautiful photos and praise for all the experts who have helped her along the way. * The Telegraph *Packed with genuine advice of what has worked, what went pear-shaped, and shoutouts of brilliant species and cultivars to try. Written with humour and woven with Mary’s memories and stories. – Matthew Pottage, Head of Horticulture & Landscape Strategy at The Royal ParksMore than just a patchwork of plants, a perennial work in progress, a project, a physical challenge, a living larder and place for alfresco lunches, Mary’s garden is invested with memories, which she shares on these pages. They will hold even the dilettante gardener enthralled. * SAGA magazine *
About The Author
Mary Berry
Dame Mary Berry is a bestselling cookery writer and TV star. She has authored over 80 cookbooks, including the internationally acclaimed Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
Her culinary journey began with a passion for domestic science, leading her to train at the Cordon Bleu in Paris. Mary’s career commenced as a magazine cookery editor before she published her first cookbook in 1966.
In recognition of her contributions, Mary was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2012 and received the prestigious Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. In 2020, she was appointed Damehood in the Queen’s birthday honours.
Dame Mary has been an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society since 2014 and holds the position of President Emeritus of the National Garden Scheme.
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