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\nGardening writer whose no-nonsense Expert guides have remained in the bestseller lists since the 1950sDavid Hessayon, who has died aged 96, was a chemist who became the world\u2019s most successful gardening writer. His no-nonsense, populist Expert guides are jam-packed with information and were produced to his own design: instructive text supported by deftly organised charts, pictures and diagrams. Hessayon once said that people were not interested in reading about gardening: \u201cWhat they are interested in is finding answers to a problem.\u201dHis formula, which achieved sales of 50 million copies over 50 years, hardly changed. His first book, under the name Dr DG Hessayon, was Be Your Own Gardening Expert. Published in 1959, it sold 5.7 million copies in half a century (its original cover showed a man with pipe and hoe, and woman with apron and basket). Be Your Own House Plant Expert (1960) was reckoned to be the bestselling reference book of all time after the Bible, which, as Hessayon pointed out, \u201chad a head start\u201d on him. This was followed by Be Your Own Lawn Expert (1962), Be Your Own Rose Expert (1964) and many others. In 2006, The Vegetable and Herb Expert was Britain\u2019s bestselling gardening paperback, and eight of the top 10 gardening titles of that year came from his Expert series. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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