GROW IT! Everything you need for a successful allotment
Allotment gardening, now ever more popular, is a constant challenge. This appealing guide, based on Ruth's personal experience, is packed with practical tips. Including a handy month-by-month guide, there's advice on everything from choosing a plot to no-dig cultivation, choosing and growing the best varieties, and enjoying your harvest of vegetables, fruit, herbs - and some flowers too. .
Now published and available at bookshops and on Amazon
THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE
In every season, Scotland's countryside is an endless source of wonder. Dip in here for a journey around inland Scotland's unique natural history, from temperate rainforest and precious peatlands to the world's oldest fossil. This is the land of pine martens and mountain hares, of eagles and capercaillie, of kelpies and Nessie - plus ancient stone circles and battlefields still resonant with times past.
UPCOMING EVENT
Ruth will be talking about her life with plants at the Lisvane, Cardiff, BookFest, on June 6th 2025 at 4.30 pm. Venue: The Old School Community Centre CF14 0SX. You can book with this link.
ON TV
On December 17, 2023 Ruth appeared on BBC Countryfile talking to John Craven
about country superstitions and sayings relating to her books, especially A
Word to the Wise. You can find her contribution at the start of the programme on this link.
PAINTINGS
Sunwapta Falls, Alberta, Canada Acrylic on canvas. 200 mm square
Ruth creates artworks in acrylics, collage and mixed media, much of it greatly inspired by the natural world, and is happy to accept commissions. Some of the paintings in her gallery are for sale as indicated. Contact her for more details.
ABOUT RUTH
Ruth Binney (neé Chanter) spent her childhood in Tiverton where her father was a housemaster at Blundell’s School. She is now settled in Cardiff where she is enjoying a variety of creative and community projects. Ruth continues to write and give talks about the plants and the countryside that she loves. Her most recent books are Grow It!, a guide to allotment gardening based on her personal experiences, and The Scottish Countryside, a sequel to her successful English Countryside title in the Rydon Publishing’s Amazing and Extraordinary Facts series. Other titles include Garden Wildlife on Trial, a sequel to the successful Weeds on Trial. She is also co-author, with football coach Rob Oyston, of Danny’s Dinosaur Dribble, a book for younger children combining storytelling with hints on improving their skills. Ruth continues to create art in acrylics and other media and enjoys classes at the Art Workshop in Rwbina, Cardiff. Since moving to Wales she is happy to be able to spend more time with her family, especially her grandchildren, and to enjoy walking and gardening. Now a member of Probus and a local Ladies Forum Ruth now regularly gives talks related to her books and her life in publishing to a variety of groups in the Cardiff area.
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CONSULTANCY
Ruth acts as a consultant to publishers on the development and commissioning of new book projects in a wide range of subjects including cookery, natural history, gardening, home making, health, popular science and word books. She also takes on the checking of edited texts in these areas.
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GROW IT! Everything you need for a successful allotment
On December 17, 2023 Ruth appeared on BBC Countryfile talking to John Craven
about country superstitions and sayings relating to her books, especially 
