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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

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between ...

Richard Mabey

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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

Collins Flower Guide

David Streeter

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Greed, exploitation and imperialism - the havoc wrought by a single orchid root that arrived in Britain from Brazil - by mistake - in 1818.

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession ...

Sarah Bilston

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New York, Tangier, Mexico, Scotland - large format and richly illustrated.

Glorious Gardens

Dara Caponigro

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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

Wonderlands: British Garden Designers at Home

Clare Coulson

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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

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

Peter Dale

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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

Roses in the Garden

Ngoc Minh Ngo

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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.

A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us

Poppy Okotcha

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A new edition of this immensely useful handbook.

RHS Pruning and Training: What, When, and How to Prune Over 800 Plants ...

No author

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Practical advice for gardeners on plants that can cope with extremities of weather.

RHS What to Grow for a Climate Resilient Garden

Amanda Rasmussen

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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

The Wild Garden

William Robinson

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From Milton to Benton End: the idea of gardens unpicked, now that this agile cultural commentator has one of her own. Discursive and hugely enjoyable.

The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise ...

Olivia Laing

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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

Melbourne Hall Garden

Jodie Jones

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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

The Book of Garden Flowers

Angie Lewin

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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.

Lismore Castle: Food and Flowers from a Historic Garden ...

Laura Cavendish

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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

The Rubens Garden: A Masterpiece in Bloom

Klara Alen

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Alliums and anemones, snowdrops, cyclamen and camassia, lilies and grape hyacinths, narcissus, tulips, crocuses of spring and autumn...

A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season

Lucy Bellamy

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From damp(ish) Galicia and the Basque country to the gardens of the Balearics and southern Spain: based on his recent series for the BBC.

Spanish Gardens

Monty Don

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Their history, collections and scientific importance. Large format, many illustrations.

The Botanic Garden: The World’s Greatest Botanical Sanctuaries ...

Ambra Edwards

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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

Unforgettable Gardens: 500 Years of Historic Gardens and Landscapes ...

The Gardens Trust

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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

Poems For Gardeners

Germaine Greer

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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

A Garden Manifesto

Olivia Laing

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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

The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations ...

Mark Laird

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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...

Lost Gardens of the World: An Atlas of Forgotten Horticultural Treasur ...

Sandra Lawrence

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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

Lost Gardens of London

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

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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

La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany

Katia Lysy

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How Constance Spry, Graham Stuart Thomas, Maud Messel, Vita and others searched for old roses during WW2 so that old wonders would not die out.

Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beaut ...

Janelle McCulloch

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Practical guide from the RHS - considers many varieties to grow too.

RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year: 365 Days of Homegrown Vegetabl ...

Royal Horticultural Society

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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.

The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia

Tim Richardson

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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

Gravetye Manor: or Twenty Years’ Work round an Old Manor House ...

William Robinson

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From Ireland to Japan, shrine to cathedral, desert to forest...

Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World

Yolanda Zappaterra

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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 Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landsc ...

Thomas Pakenham

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The latest in this magnificent series from Phaidon, which also includes Flower, Plant and Garden: large, with magnificent photographs and illustrations.

Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World

Phaidon Editors

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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

Pastoral Gardens

Clare Foster

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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.

The Gardens of Venice

Toto Bergamo Rossi

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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.

Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

Claudia Tobin

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