Following Horticulture Week's list of gardening TV's top 50, we feature Britain's most popular gardening authors today, complied from a range of publishing and bookselling sources.
Grow your own veg and houseplant books dominate the list, with allotment/crops guides around a quarter of the list, and indoor plants another sixth, showing the influence of the coronavirus crisis on Britain's gardening habits.
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Author: book/recent bestseller
Ian Spence: RHS Garden Through the Year
Huw Richards: Veg in One Bed
Christopher Brickell: RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers
Anne Wareham: Outwitting Squirrels
Sue Stuart-Smith: The Well Gardened Mind
Kay Maguire: RHS Grow Your Own Crops in Plots
Martyn Cox: Gardeners' World Veg Growers Almanac
Charles Dowding: No Dig Organic Home and Garden
Laetitia Maklouf: The Five Minute Garden
Veronica Peerless: How Not to Kill Your Houseplant
Alan Titchmarsh: How to Garden
Dr Hessayon: New Vegetable and Herb Expert
Adam Frost: How to Create Your Garden
Dave Goulson: The Garden Jungle
Alys Fowler: Modern Herbal
Alex Mitchell: Crops in Tight Spots
Lia Leendertz: The Almanac
Andi Clevely: The Allotment Book
Alan Buckingham: Allotment Month by Month
Emma Sibley: Little Book of Houseplants
Zia Allaway: RHS Practical Houseplant Book
Roni Jay: The Gardener's Pocket Bible
Colin Lewis: Bonsai Basics
Rosemary Alexander: Essential Garden Design Workbook
Malcolm Hughes: RHS Little Book of Bonsai
Sarah Ford: 50 Ways to Kill a Slug
Alan Toogood: RHS Propagating Plants
Frances Tophill: Rewild Your Garden
Carol Klein: RHS Veg & Fruit Bible
Alice Vincent: Rootbound
Simon Maughan: Plant Families
Ambra Edwards: The Story of the English Garden
Sara Rittenshausen: Happy Orchid
Tim Richardson: Sissinghurst
Abigail Willis: Secret Gardens of Somerset
John Harrison: Vegetable Growing Month by Month
Amy Stewart: Wicked Plants
Chris Young: RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design
Joyce Russell: The Polytunnel Book
Jason Johns: Vertical Gardening
Lucy Chamberlain: RHS Step by Step Veg Patch
Leslie Martin: Beginner's Vegetable Garden
John Harris: Vegetable Growing
Victoria Summerley: Great Gardens of London
Harry/David Rich: Love Your Plot
Peter Shepperd: Houseplants 101
Piet Oudolf: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden
Daniel Chamovitz: What a Plant Knows
Tim Newbury: Ultimate Garden Designer
Cleve West: Garden of Vegan
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