‘Harry Holding is one of our most exciting young designers.’ Monty Don A design-led approach to edible gardening for any size and space. Eat Your Garden , by award-winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden designer Harry Holding, is the first book to focus on a style of edible gardening that is lower in effort, greater in beauty and less demanding of space than the traditional kitchen garden or vegetable plot. This is a grow-your-own book with a difference: edimentals are plants that are both edible and ornamental. Some offer bountiful harvests and great flavours, others are more unusual, and then there are plants that earn their place in the garden because they are so joyful. Edimentals can be woven into existing gardens and across different planting styles, whether formal borders, cottage gardens or meadows, and in naturalistic or minimalist designs. Harry emphasises resilient, low-maintenance perennials for a more sustainable way to grow your own food. From familiar plants, such as fennel and wild strawberry, to ostrich fern and king’s spear, Harry shows you how to create a foraging experience on your own doorstep. Harry’s pioneering design principles are drawn from permaculture, food forests, agroforestry, edible meadows and market gardens, which he brings to every garden from rural to suburban, city gardens, balconies and containers. Eat Your Garden includes: • Design plans for spaces from courtyards to borders • Plant profiles organised by structure and layer • A guide to creating biodiverse plant communities and mixes • Harvesting advice for year-round cropping • Over 150 stunning colour photographs ‘Harry Holding is one of our most exciting young designers.’ Monty Don ‘ Eat Your Garden is a joy that will become a well-thumbed entry in the classics. I can’t wait to draw on so much of Harry’s thinking to transform my own gardens. This palette for the palate is a gift of a Gift. I love it and know that all who receive it will be sincerely grateful for it. Harry Holding has produced a feast of a book.’ Sir Tim Smit, co-founder, the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project ‘A feast of invaluable information and a truly inspirational book, coming from a lifetime of curiosity and practical experience.’ Darina Allen, Ballymaloe Cookery School ‘Why not eat your garden? Why restrict ornamental gardens to non-edible plants? Harry uses the term edimental to describe plants which are both beautiful and delicious. They are the ones we want to grow, and Harry has plenty of ideas for this. Eat Your Garden describes how to grow food in an ornamental garden without losing ornamental as a quality. There are so many wonderful opportunities: let Harry guide you to see the amazing possibilities.’ Charles Dowding, author of No Dig and Grow Together ‘When I first saw Harry’s Chelsea Flower Show garden, I was blown away by the planting. Once the penny dropped that it was an astonishing tapestry of edible flavours and forms, my brain fizzed with all the new edible delights that unfolded in front of me. I’m all about growing edibles, but Harry takes it to another level, proving just how imaginative and elegant an edible landscape can be. ‘Harry makes ecological gardening joyful, accessible and irresistibly inspiring. With clarity and warmth, he reveals how plants can be both delicious and ornamental, transforming borders and everyday spaces into productive, biodiverse ecosystems. ‘ Eat Your Garden is a book we edible gardeners have been yearning for, a gentle shift in perspective, a reminder that our gardens can feed us in more ways than one. May it encourage you to plant boldly, harvest often and see your space through Harry’s generous, visionary lens.’ August Bernstein, head of the Raymond Blanc Gardening School, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons ‘ Eat Your Garden will change how we grow our ornamental and edible plants in the same place; it’s a book that brings together food and beauty. The case studies give insight into the endless possibilities open to us all, and you will never look at an herbaceous border in the same way again. The plant profiles are full of genuine surprises on the edibility of ornamental plants. I mean, who knew that the young leaves of that beautiful, woolly Stachys byzantina (lamb’s ear) can be fried in batter for a delicious amuse-bouche ? Familiar old plants provide new flavours, textures and scents to delight even the most jaded palate. Yes, we can all have edimental spaces, and they can be as small or as large as you can manage. As Mr Holding says, “just give it a go”.’ Advolly Richmond, author of A Short History of Flowers ; plant and garden historian and presenter ‘Harry’s book offers a clear, practical roadmap for creating edible, beautiful and ecologically informed plantings. He absolutely nails the planting design process, offering enormous value in showing how to turn these ideas into reality. ‘People often ask me where to learn about edible meadows an