Well, obviously it helps if you wear an enormous straw hat, a faded apron and just let it into your beautiful home... Thirty gardens from around the world that exemplify the Kinfolk aesthet... read more
A fairly academic collection of essays about the uncanny in gardens - ghosts, fairy sightings, nasty things in orchards if not woodsheds... who knew that 'ecogothic studies' is a Thing? M R ... read more
A fascinating, scholarly monograph rather than a picture book, but well illustrated; draws on pre-Islamic sources and the great
Persian poets. Explores the role and symbolism of gardens in... 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
A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more
MM is senior rosarian at David Austen Roses and one of the world's most respected rose experts. A book on the roses that our late national treasure bred to combine the virtues of old roses w... read more