Planted - Tapa dura

Planted combines core, indispensable advice with exquisite, extraordinary photographs, so that it becomes a pleasure to learn, to get going and glory in your garden. The trick is - don t be intimidated by what you don t know yet; but put on some lipstick, and start sowing veg. Window-sill or wilderness, get out there and discover the joys of tweaking. At last, a gardening guide that accepts that dozing in a lounger with a martini is more fun than wielding a hoe . . . It travels with attitude in spades.' WALLPAPER

Andy Sturgeon is an established designer who exhibits at Chelsea and the Hampton Court Flower Show, and makes fake gardens for film sets. He worked in Hong Kong as a supervising engineer on the Tsing Ma suspension bridge, and has plant-hunted in Madagascar with the Universtiy of Minnesota. He has crewed three yachts around the Indian Ocean and taught snowboarding in Austria. He has his own television gardening series and is the official GMTV gardener.