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Fine copy in a very good dustjacket, which is marred only by a 1cm nick near the top of the spine. Otherwise superb in condition and contents.

Mughal Architecture And Gardens

George Michell

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Fine copy in fine dustjacket. Lavishly illustrated with colour and b&w photos, text in English.

Palaces and Gardens of Persia

Yves Porter

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This delightful and informative book is illustrated with Jones's drawings and a lovely dust jacket by her too. First edition, first printing in very good condition with near fine dust jacket... read more

Follies & Grottoes

Barbara Jones

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First edition. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket; almost as new. Contains 275 half-tone illustrations.

Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden

Peter Willis

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Third edition in good/very good condition with faded dark blue cloth boards, a little rubbed, and with gilt-stamped lettering to front and spine. An armorial bookplate of Sir Montague and Da... read more

Wall and Water Gardens

Gertrude Jekyll

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with author's obituary cutting from The Times inset. Very good dust jacket, with slight wrinkling to the laminate on top left cover.

English Gardens and Landscapes, 1700-1750

Christopher Hussey

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with bright gold gilt lettering to the front and spine and very good dust jacket; some foxing to inside of dust jacket.

Humphrey Repton

Dorothy Stroud

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First edition, first printing in fine condition, with a near-fine dust jacket. Faint smudges on the title page left by the image opposite, but images retain their colour and clarity.

Mr Hamilton’s Elysium: The Gardens Of Painshill ...

Michael Symes

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First edition. As new.

Rock Landscapes – The Pulham Legacy: Rock Gardens, Grottoes, Fer ...

Claude Hitching

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An intriguing tour of the Versailles gardens accompanied by contemporary illustrations by Redouté and others. Careful inspection of archives reveals plants with scents, and plants with cosm... read more

Marie-Antoinette’s Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Album ...

Elisabeth de Feydeau

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From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.

Teasels

Sam Francis

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Wonderful, authoritative guide to plants north of a line ranging from the Pyrenees to Southern Romania.

Europe’s Alpine Flowers: A Field Guide

Bob Gibbons

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A team of eight look after 12,000 trees which include 2,000 species. Many are unique; many more are the most remarkable exemplars of their kind. If Kew had no flowerbeds or glasshouses, it w... read more

Among the Giants: A Year at the Kew Arboretum

Kew Gardens

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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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