Naturalistic, low-maintenance plantings for the sustainable garden; showcases forty gardens and the work of Dan Pearson, Piet Oudolf et alia. Copius illustrations.
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
A lavishly illustrated survey of the Dutch gardener's creations, several of which are now listed as National Monuments. Her life spanned the C20th and her gardens do express many of the Mode... read more
With terraces overlooking the Severn estuary, water gardens and an enormous pillared pergola, the house was an Edwardian dream that fell into decay. Luckily it has been restored, and its gar... read more
Spread over 400 hectares in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - and the coldest - this remarkable and enormous forest-garden is now twenty years old, and Pearson... read more
A companion volume to the stunning Flora of the Silk Road that ravished us all in 2014. A selection of 600 of the most interesting wild flowers native to the Mediterranean and similar clima... read more
The doyenne of English garden designers looks over her own magnificent career - she has designed over 70 (!) gardens world-wide, and counting... Many photographs.
The classical deliciousness that Richard Colt Hoare described in 1822 as "this elegant architectural relick of former days" before entering the garden, where "the eye is greeted with a gener... read more
Unusual and interesting plants photographed and described in their natural habitats, often in very remote places - anyone remember the heady uplands of tulip and meadows of fritillary in Gar... read more
The perpetual appeal of walled gardens, let alone Venetian ones - private, invisible to those outside, with a delicious water gate giving onto a canal, and exhaling drifts of orange blossom ... 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