★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review.

Do you remember your garden once you put it to sleep? Do you remember the seeds, seedlings, the soil, and the tools that are waiting in the shed to be used when spring comes?

I don't have perfect recall - and in fact, I find myself wondering about seed companies and the best hoes and shovels. But with this journal, you'll have a 5-year record of what's worked on your plot. You'll be able to track diseases, bugs, and solutions in the weekly layouts, too.

It's beautiful. It's waiting to be hung in your garden storeroom or tucked into your bookshelf while you pore over garden catalogs. Get your copy - and enjoy the memories of nature, weather, and nourishing your mental and physical self in the garden.

This is a lovely colour book to complete of what is in your garden over a 5 year period.

The book is divided into the months of the year, with 5 columns per double page. Each double page is in full colour with different beautiful flower illustrations on the top of the page per month. Each month has 5 double pages that can be assigned to it. Going across the user can complete the following details, Weather, Plants in Bloom, Tasks, Notes

There are four pages where you can record "plants to buy", detailing the plant name, where seen, supplier, and planting position

You can also record your favourite suppliers contact details on four pages. Next you can record which gardens you have visited over two pages. Finally, you have a number of pages for your notes.

Overall, its a simple book that you complete over 5 years, and a lovely keepsake for a keen gardener.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

I would like to thank the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this eBook.

Ah, I wish I could buy a physical copy of this book here in India. This book is perfect for gardeners and it is filled with beautiful illustrations.

A simple and effective means of tracking your garden from year to year.

Do you want to be one of those gardeners with a beautiful notebook brimming with details on what bloomed when or poetic thoughts on the shifting winter light? Trying to remember what tomato varieties excelled last summer? Or what bulbs you put round the mailbox for a “splash of spring”? This record book is a great place to start.

A simple monthly spread with a box for noting each week, whatever details you like as it’s not guided. Some bonus pages in the back for lists on plants to purchase, stores and suppliers to visit, pest problems etc. Each month is adorned with classic flowers but no distractingly so, a minimalist whimsical flourish.

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This books is great for just about any sort of gardener because it is what you make of it, a blank slate that can be detailed or simple from week to week, month to month and year to year. The flexibility is good because as we all know, no two growing seasons are the same nor is the time always available for getting it all done.

If you are a really detail oriented gardener and want to have more minutiae available at a glance or more room for daily records then this won’t be your primary notebook; it may be a good additional one though for summarizing in and reviewing down the years.

All around a helpful addition to the potting shed or garden shed.


A big old “Thank You” to Netgalley, the Publisher and of course the author for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review. Your efforts are in good hands and I appreciate the trust.

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Title: RHS A Gardener’s Five Year Record Book
Author: Royal Horticultural Society
Genre: Home & Garden | Non-Fiction (Adult)
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion, Frances Lincoln
Pages: 144
Publication Date: September 20, 2022
Format: ePub (Now sold in paperback.)

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Beautifully illustrated, this journal is ideal for those gardeners who want to quickly jot down ideas without being overwhelmed with the feeling to write daily. Organized to view months over a period of years, it will be easy to compare start times and planting details. Extra areas such as a plant list and gardens to visit make this the ideal space to record actual results and plan future dreams!

I would like to thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for my copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review

This book is excellent. We love to keep track of what we have planted, where, how successful it was an us this to think about the planting next year. All the information decides where we plant things and if we plant them or try something new.

We have loved using this to do all of that and more. We’ve also used the pages to keep wee notes about how our kids interact with the plants and any special things that happen.

Overall, this is definitely a brilliant book and great for any gardener, no matter if your space is huge or micro/windowsill. I recommend this to just journal and enjoy what you’ve put into your plants.

I was fascinated by this journal and was think how I could juse it. It's gorgeus and very useful if you are a gardener and want to keep note.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I really love the idea of this notebook. Keeping all your garden notes in one place and prompts for the weather and what grew and where is amazing. Here in Canada, we don’t have all year growing seasons so a few of the months wouldn’t be well used but it definitely gave me some great ideas to make one of my own.

If you like to garden or even to know when things are in bloom and what to look out for year after year, this journal might be for you. It is pretty basic, and goes by week each year for 5 years. It's nice to be able to look back and see what was happening at that same time the year before. (For me the weekly entries are a bit much, I would prefer to just write things out by month. I'm not that disciplined in writing things down about conditions outside).

There is the main area of the journal with entry boxes for each month with categories that include, weather, plants in bloom, tasks, and notes.

Then there is a section on plants you would like to buy. This section includes entry boxes for the plants name, where seen, supplier, and planting position.

The next section is on plant suppliers. This section includes entry boxes for a name, useful addresses, and telephone/email.

Then there is the section on gardens to visit. Which includes date visited and comments entry boxes.

And finally there are a number of pages dedicated to just notes.

The journal is pretty. And if you are a journaler who loves nature, this would be a great addition to journaling.

RHS Gardener’s Five Year Record Book
by The Royal Horticulture Society

Plant lovers and growers of every level—master gardeners, horticulturists, botanists, nursery owners, landscapers, groundskeepers, farmers, and homeowners—can enjoy and benefit from Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society’s, “RHS Gardener’s Five Year Record Book,” illustrated with antique botanical prints of flowers and fruit in radiant hues matching the seasons of the calendar month pages.

With a fill-in-the-year format, this versatile calendar offers monthly reminders on weather, plants in bloom, tasks and notes. At the end of the almanac, there are plenty of designated pages for additional notes, gardens to visit, plants to order, and vendors.

This beautifully designed and illustrated gardening assistant, is best purchased in hard copy for ease of use in taking notes. My publisher review copy is electronic. In this format, The RHS Calendar is a lovely work of art, but impossible to modify as intended.

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Title: “RHS Gardener’s Five Year Record Book”
Author: The Royal Horticulture Society
Genre: Home & Garden | Non-Fiction (Adult)
Publication Date: 19 September 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing – White Lion, Frances Lincoln

My sincere thanks and appreciation goes to NetGalley, The Royal Horticulture Society, and Quarto Publishing – White Lion, and Frances Lincoln for this Advance Reader’s Copy (ARC) for review.

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This is a wonderful, gorgeous garden book! An easy way to keep track of your garden. A nice book for anyone with a green thumb. A beautiful floral book for any garden lover!

The Royal Horticultural Society Gardener’s Five Year Record Book is an absolutely beautifully illustrated calendar journal that is perfect for planning and keeping up to date with your garden. This would be an amazing gift for any beginner with a green thumb or someone who just loves gardening and all of the literature it creates!

Lovely spacious layout and gorgeous floral illustrations - a nice touch that they correspond with the month. I was expecting more though - perhaps a monthly note or some advice here or there as the months passed?

Another exquisite book by the Royal Horticultural Society. This Five Year Record Book is made with iconic, historic images some from the 1700s of plants, flowers, and insects that border the top of the page in a banner. Each month is different art that of course fits the month seasonally with sections of weather, plants in bloom, tasks, and notes.

At the end, there are Plants to Buy, Plant Suppliers, Gardens to Visit, and blank Note pages for records. Within each of these pages are their own headings.

If you are looking for a beautiful garden journal for the gardener in your life or yourself I think one has struck gold with this one.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher Frances Lincoln for the opportunity to read and review this beautiful garden journal.

There are things I like and things I don't so much with this five year garden journal. I love the popular format of having five years of a journal across a page so you can compare from year to year. This is one two-page spread for each week of each month, and then down the side of the page you write the year, what's blooming, things you did, etc. There are colorful antique floral illustrations at the top, with the same ones for each week of each month (so January pages all look one way, for instance). There are five weekly spreads for each month.

I'm a little unsure how a five year journal works when you have it weekly instead of daily. It says "year" but you need to then somewhere stick "week one" or "January 1-8" or something somewhere, and obviously these are going to be slightly different every year because of the way the months work. When does week one start? That Sunday, or the first? Obviously when you start it you'd want to start on the first, but then if that's a Wednesday then every week for the next five years starts on a Wednesday? Or do you do just the little fragment of the first week? I don't know. Perhaps I overthink things! Also, there's no visual calendar anywhere (since this works for any year), so you just have to sort of figure out what week you're in. This works fine if you're the type of person to keep up a garden journal every week of your life for five years, but if you're the type to pick it up again after a few months where nothing was blooming or happening, it can be trickier to figure out what week November 13 is in, for instance.

I'm also not sure I'd want to start a garden journal in January in Minnesota where what's blooming is going to be nothing for months, and I can't do a thing in the garden for a very long time. The entire first four months or so would look depressing in my book, I suspect. I don't even know that I'd really find much to check in on at all often in the winter, other than starting seeds or reading garden catalogs.

All that said, it's a lovely journal and it's exactly the sort of thing I'd fall in love with and impulse buy. It would make a sweet gift for any garden lover.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and give an honest review of this book.

A couple of years ago I searched all over for a gardening journal to record facts and info about my gardening adventures. I had trouble finding one. This journal from RHS would have fit the bill.

I enjoyed the illustrations and there was adequate room to put planting ideas, successes and failures. It included a spot for the weather, blooming plants, tasks to do and any notes. It was divided into months of the year and included five gardening years.

I liked that there was a section for listing plants you wanted to obtain and sites where you would like to shop for gardening materials.

Any gardener would enjoy receiving this book as a gift.

I have several nice editions of the RHS books and I’d love this planner to add to my collection as it’s beautiful. So simple yet so useful and a brilliant way to track what happens in your garden, what you plant and when and how successful things are! Will be buying a physical copy for myself!

What a lovely resource for those who want to keep track of their gardens. The illustrations throughout this title are absolutely gorgeous and from the RHS archives. Within these pages gardeners have ample room to list details of weather, plants in bloom, tasks and any notes. Those who are looking for this kind of resource will, I think, love this one.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing Group-White Lion-Frances Lincoln Books for this title. All opinions are my own.

Positively elegant and gorgeous RHS Gardener's Five Year Record Book is the prettiest record book I have seen...and as a master gardener I have seen many with various layouts. Mine look mundane in comparison. Not only is there all the space one needs to make monthly gardening notes for five years but the illustrated botanicals on each page are breathtaking, including curious insects. You will also find space for suppliers' contact information, where to buy coveted plants and where you saw them, plant names, plant position and gardens to visit. No more need for used envelopes or grocery receipts for notes!

Whether you are new to gardening or have years of experience, you will be inspired to dig into this book and make copious notes, including some you may not have realized you needed! It is almost too pretty to write in...but how can you not? If this journal does not inspire you to compile gardening notes, nothing will.

My sincere thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion and NetGalley for the privilege of soaking up this stunner of a gardener's journal. Upon seeing the captivating cover, practical layout and pretty pages I immediately knew this journal would be perfect for my gardening sisters, mom and myself. The Royal Horticultural Society has really outdone itself.