The author cut her gardener's teeth in the gardens at Helmingham Hall, where she moved on her marriage in 1975. She now has a successful garden design company, Chelsea Gold medals to her nam... read more
Plant-hunting did not die with Frank Kingdon-Ward in 1958: very important work continues, highly skilled, technical and complex, but brings little or no fame to this intrepid band. We hope t... read more
Both a brief history of gardening and a where-do-we-go-from-here manual: Moore shows us not only what we think a garden is but why we think it ought to be thus and so. He's an advocate of a ... read more
Photographs by Christopher Lloyd of his own garden, juxtaposed with contemporary images. Introduction and notes by his former head gardener and current head of the Great Dixter Charitable Tr... read more
A biography of the fine watercolourist renowned for his pastoral evocations of rural England between the wars and who served as War Artist in WW2. Illustrated throughout.
RJ came to botanical painting relatively late, and later still to success. This memoir of her life as a painter also talks about her childhood, and about both Augustus John and Gwen John, he... read more
Most lives are untidy, and mine is no exception... She made herself a success in Fleet Street when journalism was still a very male domain, edited Elizabeth David and inspired the look - if ... read more
AF has created an immense green Arcadia in Devon, informed by philosophy, art history, symbolism, alchemy and the classical world. This is a beautiful book with many illustrations and AF's d... read more
The ideal present for that rare breed of person mostly to be found head-down in the compost bin, with just a pair of legs with gumboot finials waving ecstatically at passers-by or spouses, l... read more