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My Gardening Life
  • Published: 24 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241726655
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $65.00
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My Gardening Life

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A personal memoir from one of the country’s leading cooks on her passion for gardening, plants, and growing her own food

‘In another life I may have been a gardener’

Well-known and loved as a cookery writer and presenter, this is Mary Berry’s deeply personal account of the second great love of her life, gardening. She shares her love of growing plants, visiting gardens, and getting hands-on in her own plot.

A passion that was sparked in her childhood, Mary first started gardening with her father and she has been fortunate to meet many inspirational and knowledgeable horticulturalists throughout her life. Full of anecdotes, pearls of wisdom, Q&As with her gardening heroes, and beautiful photos of Mary’s own garden, My Gardening Life is a unique memoir told through the gardens Mary has loved.

As well as Mary's first-hand commentary, she also explains the vital role that being outside, connecting with nature, and celebrating the seasons has played in her life for 90 years. From times of personal solace to times of celebration, moments of sheer joy to gardening frustrations, Mary reveals her deep love of plants and gardens.
  • Published: 24 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241726655
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

About the author

Mary Berry

Dame Mary Berry is the nation's favourite baker and author of over 70 books, including the bestselling Mary Berry Cooks, Simple Comforts, Mary Berry's Baking Bible and Mary 90. She was the much-loved judge on the BBC's The Great British Bake Off and has been teaching the nation to cook for over four decades. Cordon Bleu trained in Paris, Mary began her career as a magazine cookery editor before publishing her first cookery book in 1966. Mary is also an AGA expert and taught AGA masterclasses for many years from her home with Lucy Young. In 2009 Mary was awarded the highly coveted Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 she was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
portrait photo of Mary Berry

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Praise for My Gardening Life

Filled with insights into all her own gardens, growing tips, hard lessons, plant lists for all seasons, beautiful photos and praise for all the experts who have helped her along the way.

The Telegraph

Packed with genuine advice of what has worked, what went pear-shaped, and shoutouts of brilliant species and cultivars to try. Written with humour and woven with Mary's memories and stories.

Matthew Pottage, Head of Horticulture & Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks

More than just a patchwork of plants, a perennial work in progress, a project, a physical challenge, a living larder and place for alfresco lunches, Mary’s garden is invested with memories, which she shares on these pages. They will hold even the dilettante gardener enthralled.

SAGA magazine