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The pleasures of a cutting garden.

A Year of Cut Flowers: A life of growing and arranging for all seasons ...

Sarah Raven

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The amiable duo have now traversed the length and breadth of Britain - from Pembrokeshire to Kent, Scotland to Cornwall.

British Gardens

Monty Don

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Celebrated for his photographs, especially his early, very painterly images created at the beginning of the C20th, Steichen was once almost as revered as a grower of delphiniums. The natural... read more

Edward Steichen and the Garden

Sarah Anne McNear

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A well-illustrated catalogue for a fascinating exhibition at the Ashmolean that looks at the interplay of plants and art - from the Tradescants to tulipomania, botany, empire and the present... read more

In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World

Stephen Harris

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Thirty gardens created in the last decade by this respected landscaped gardener whose style combines elegance with naturalism - big terracotta pots, citrus, cypress, avenues, winding paths, ... read more

Jean Mus: The Joy of Living

Dane McDowell

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“I see gardens as works of art made of living entities that change with the seasons and the passing of time”: Marianne Majerus is a leading contemporary photographer of gardens who has w... read more

Garden Photography -The Art of Ephemeral

Marianne Majerus

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A detailed celebration of the Elizabethan house, its interiors, collections and the Capability Brown parkland.

Burghley House

John Martin Robinson

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A tour of the Versailles gardens accompanied by contemporary illustrations by Redouté and others. Careful inspection of archives reveals plants with scent, and others with cosmetic and medi... read more

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

Elisabeth de Feydeau

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300 gardens around the world, both private and public. Arranged by studio/designer. A handsome book, with many illustrations, includes rising stars such as Sarah Price.

The Contemporary Garden

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A gorgeous book on Wilhelmina 'Mien' Ruys (1904-1999), the influential Dutch gardener who introduced Modernism into garden design: includes a biographical section as well as studies of indiv... read more

The Gardens of Mien Ruys: Strong Design, Lush Planting, and the Origin ...

Conny den Hollender

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Clever and wise reflections over a year in her own back garden - which of course is magnificent and varied.

Diary of a Keen Gardener

Mary Keen

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The evolution of the garden in the C20th, the carefully balanced interplay of nature, tradition and modernity and the growth of gardens as places of mediation and gentleness post-1945. Well ... read more

The Modern Japanese Garden

Stephen Mansfield

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Drawn from Kew's previously uncatalogued archive and many of them painted by 'Company' painters: an engaging and scholarly study.

Flora Indica: Recovering Lost Stories from Kew’s Indian Drawings ...

Henry Noltie

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Lavishly photographed and large format, this looks at gardens in the UK, the US and beyond by designers such as Arabella Lennox-Boyd and Tom Stuart-Smith.

Gardens Illustrated: The New Beautiful

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An updated edition that includes Catherine Fitzgerald's and Prue Leith's gardens, to join those of Rupert Everett, Anish Kapoor, Gus Christie and many others.

The Secret Gardeners: Britain’s Creatives Reveal Their Private S ...

Victoria Summerley

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An immense, encyclopedic feat of photography and research, now almost impossible to come by. Richly illustrated, with notes and descriptions throughout. In fine condition, almost as new, wit... read more

Flowers of Crete

John Fielding

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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. As new.

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

Claude Hitching

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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 ...

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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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