Our Bookshop

Jane Cox spent 25 years in publishing bedore marrying into the Cox family and taking up the running of the garden centre and therefore takes particular pleasure in buying the books for our bookshop.

Specialising in the family's passions, we stock the following ranges:

Gardening - Of course, there are Ken Cox's books (of which there are 11) as well as his father's, Peter Cox and his brother's, Ray Cox's books, most of which are available in the bookshop (and if they're not, it's because they're out of print or reprinting). There's also general gardening, plant encyclopaedias, plant specialist books, nature.

Birds - a good collection on birds identification, bird care, bird song and a few specific books on Scottish birds.

Cookery - a passion of Jane Cox's, there is a great range of cookery books because leafing through a cookery book is still one of life's great pleasures

Humour - lots of Scottish humour as well a general stocking or just because fillers

Scottish - guide books, picture books and humour

Children's - an extensive range of picture books for 0-8 year olds as well as educational and activity books