A slim but energetic reminiscence about the gardens the Bannerpeople have made as a couple: they are now three years into making their fourth, at their Elizabethan manor house in Somerset. E... read more
Delightful and clever selection: Bannerman's nose must spend much of its time dusted with pollen, like one of Eva Ibbotson's heroines (Anna Grazinsky, in the book with a dachshund that swall... read more
By the gardener who radically changed garden design in the latter part of the C20th by focusing on the achievable and vernacular: low maintenance, beautiful gardens for all, with no need for... 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
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