A gardener's control is illusory, thanks to a myriad other organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run. Here are Mabey's enchanting and erudite observations on the hor... read more
This new field guide examines all 1,900 wildflowers of Britain and Ireland, and their distribution in Northern Europe. Illustrated with specially commissioned pictures by botanical artists
The private gardens of Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Miranda Brooks, Sarah Price, Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith, Isabel and Julian Bannerman, Arne Maynard, Mary Keen and several others. Gorgeous pho... read more
The lingering presence of nature and an ancient world inside our homes as well as carefully cultivated around them: William Morris's tendril wallpaper, mazes, sacred groves and the fete cham... read more
Easily the most ravishing gardening book of the season: roses and their ramping, trailing, exuberant habits, companions for old walls and stars of so many gardens - inlcuding here Ninfa and ... read more
This debut by a young gardener specialising in permaculture and the growing of food has just won the Jane Grigson Trust - Sous Chef Award for new writers.
The C19th Irish gardener and taste-bud who introduced naturalistic planting and loose herbaceous borders at his Elizabethan manor house, Gravetye. He was also worked with Jekyll. First publi... read more
This beautiful garden includes the fabulous early C18th wrought iron arbour known as 'the Birdcage' as well as a grotto, fountains, statues and tree-lined all?es, making it the finest surivi... read more
Here are artichokes, sea holly, pelargoniums, cyclamen, columbines, astrantia, auriculas and many others. Beautifully illustrated by one of our finest printmakers; a companion to their Book ... read more
This magnificent C12th castle was repeatedly improved and remodelled over the generations - including by Paxton and Pugin. There's a C17th walled garden and many other delights.
Beautifully illustrated publication on the garden of the recently restored Rubenshuis in Antwerp, including a delightful florilegium of plants that would have grown there. Includes a recipe ... read more
From Elizabethan formality to Little Sparta, via Wilton, Hafod, Inverewe: the index reads like a dream of an itinerary for a garden tour of the Britain. The gardens are grouped by century. M... read more
A generous anthology that ranges from antiquity to the contemporary - edited by the firebrand octogenarian feminist and Shakespeare scholar, whose age has in no way diminished her intelligen... read more
An anthology about radical gardens - poems, essays, images, polemics. Contributors include Alys Fowler, Philip Hoare, Jamaica Kincaid, Jeremy Lee, Ana Mendieta, Ian Patterson, J.H. Prynne an... read more
Scholarly mix of botanical illustration, fine art and archival material that looks at political and ethical dimensions of English gardens in the Georgian and Victorian eras. Beautifully illu... read more
Forty gardens around the world that have become neglected or have vanished - and a few that have risen phoenix-like once again. England, Mexico, Nepal, Morocco, Italy, the Netherlands...
Princely pleasure grounds, orchards, square gardens, allotments, menageries, artists' gardens - from the C16th to the present, by one of Britain's finest landscape architects and author of s... read more
The C15th house restored by Iris and Antonio Origo in the 1920s and '30s, with Cecil Pinsent's famous garden looking out over the Val d'Orcia to Monte Amiato. By their daughter and granddaug... read more
Sublime C18th landscapes, including Painshill, Chiswick, Petworth, Stowe, Studley Royal. Large format and many photographs. Proceeds to fund the libraries of out-of-work hermits.
A large-format facsimile of Robinson's book of 1911, with new photographs. Robinson bought the house in 1885 and spent decades creating its wonderfully naturalistic gardens, which Coward (tr... read more
Cedars of Lebanon, deodars from India, cypresses from Italy, oriental planes from Greece and Turkey, maples and pines from North America: all were planted on an immense scale from the late C... read more
The latest in this magnificent series from Phaidon, which also includes Flower, Plant and Garden: large, with magnificent photographs and illustrations.
A gorgeous book on gardens that are informal and integrated within their landscape and climate: the walled garden at Knepp, Umberto Pasti's wild garden in Morocco, the Bannerman's new garden... read more
From the formality of the palace gardens along the Grand Canal to the less opulent on some of the other islands in the Venetian lagoon, photographed in every season.
Virginia, Vanessa, Ottoline and Vita at Garsington, Sissinghurst, Charleston, Monk's House... Delightful, small catalogue from the Garden Museum's equally bijou exhibition this summer.