Delightful slim volume from the Garden Museum about the garden at Prospect Cottage, in the same format as their recent ones on Cedric Morris and Ivon Hitchens. Includes essays by Howard Sool... read more
Gardens include the American Museum and Gardens, Barley Wood Walled Garden, Batcombe House, Lambrook Manor, Hauser & Wirth, Hestercombe, Iford Manor, Kilver Court and Common Farm, the latter... read more
An important account of Repton's work, bridging the period between Capability Brown's informality and the stiffer designs of the Victorians. Illustrated.
The two authors - husband and wife - settled in the west of Ireland over thirty years ago, casting off from their life in the US on a romantic impulse to begin a new life near Christine's fa... read more
Liberated from formality, the looser landscape gardening of the C18th fizzed with grottoes, follies and temples of course, but also with deer pens, stables, dovecotes, boathouses, etc. Many ... read more
Irwin, the designer of the Central Garden at the Getty Center, describes his work there as "a sculpture in the form of a garden".
This book consists of a conversation between Weschler and I... read more
The last decade's archaeological research in the grounds of Hanwell have revealed, inter alia, the ruins of the 'House of Diversion' referred to by Robert Plot in 1678, where "a ball is toss... read more
These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more
Forty of these remarkable horticultural institutions throughout the world, including Norway, Morocco, Kyoto, Kew, Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Malaysia...
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
How to keep chickens, make soap, create a kitchen garden, dip candles, tie knots, and a lot more. This might well take the place of the old 'Weekend Books' in an era of lockdowns.
Thorogood's version of 'up hill and down dale' takes him over cliffs and up volcanoes - all in the pursuit of pitcher plants, irises, orchids... Illustrated by the author.
Fabulous photographs of the wildflower meadows created up and down the country for the 60th anniversary of ER's coronation. In tandem with various NGOs and charities, this initiative has an ... read more
A scholarly approach to the gardens of the Petit Trianon and Malmaison, looking at their design and use as liminal spaces under Marie-Antoinette, the empresses Josephine, Marie-Louise and Eu... read more
A welcome re-issue, by a lion among garden designers, about another. Caruncho's style is about light and line, space and verticality; he snakes rows of vines over an Italian hillside, breaks... read more
Combining neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the psychotherapist author is further qualified to write this book being married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the garden designer and winner of umpteen awa... read more