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Forty gardens around the world that have become neglected or have vanished - and a few that have risen phoenix-like once again. England, Mexico, Nepal, Morocco, Italy, the Netherlands...

Lost Gardens of the World: An Atlas of Forgotten Horticultural Treasur ...

Sandra Lawrence

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£19.99

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Princely pleasure grounds, orchards, square gardens, allotments, menageries, artists' gardens - from the C16th to the present, by one of Britain's finest landscape architects and author of s... read more

Lost Gardens of London

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

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The C15th house restored by Iris and Antonio Origo in the 1920s and '30s, with Cecil Pinsent's famous garden looking out over the Val d'Orcia to Monte Amiato. By their daughter and granddaug... read more

La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany

Katia Lysy

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£46.00

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How Constance Spry, Graham Stuart Thomas, Maud Messel, Vita and others searched for old roses during WW2 so that old wonders would not die out.

Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beaut ...

Janelle McCulloch

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Practical guide from the RHS - considers many varieties to grow too.

RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year: 365 Days of Homegrown Vegetabl ...

Royal Horticultural Society

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£26.00

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Sublime C18th landscapes, including Painshill, Chiswick, Petworth, Stowe, Studley Royal. Large format and many photographs. Proceeds to fund the libraries of out-of-work hermits.

The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia

Tim Richardson

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£40.00

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A large-format facsimile of Robinson's book of 1911, with new photographs. Robinson bought the house in 1885 and spent decades creating its wonderfully naturalistic gardens, which Coward (tr... read more

Gravetye Manor: or Twenty Years’ Work round an Old Manor House ...

William Robinson

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£88.50

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From Ireland to Japan, shrine to cathedral, desert to forest...

Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World

Yolanda Zappaterra

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Cedars of Lebanon, deodars from India, cypresses from Italy, oriental planes from Greece and Turkey, maples and pines from North America: all were planted on an immense scale from the late C... read more

The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landsc ...

Thomas Pakenham

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The latest in this magnificent series from Phaidon, which also includes Flower, Plant and Garden: large, with magnificent photographs and illustrations.

Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World

Phaidon Editors

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A gorgeous book on gardens that are informal and integrated within their landscape and climate: the walled garden at Knepp, Umberto Pasti's wild garden in Morocco, the Bannerman's new garden... read more

Pastoral Gardens

Clare Foster

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£55.00

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From the formality of the palace gardens along the Grand Canal to the less opulent on some of the other islands in the Venetian lagoon, photographed in every season.

The Gardens of Venice

Toto Bergamo Rossi

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£60.00

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Virginia, Vanessa, Ottoline and Vita at Garsington, Sissinghurst, Charleston, Monk's House... Delightful, small catalogue from the Garden Museum's equally bijou exhibition this summer.

Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

Claudia Tobin

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£20.00

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A memoir by the well-known gardener and broadcaster.

Hortobiography

Carol Klein

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£22.00

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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: Gardening, Wilderness and the Space In Between ...

Richard Mabey

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A handsome hardback edition of this book, first published privately by the Land Gardeners in 2022. Large format and beautifully designed with lots of lovely photographs of gardens, farms, fr... read more

Soil to Table: The Land Gardeners

Bridget Elworthy

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£45.00

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In cups, mugs, jugs, pots... Attractive photos in which many flowers are displayed with lots and lots of books. And not too tidy either! Pritchard highlights snowdrops, roses, nasturtiums, s... read more

Outside In: A Year of Growing & Displaying

Sean A Pritchard

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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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A new, expanded edition of this excellent guide.

Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland

Roger Phillips

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Draws on writings of all kinds to describe the uses of common plants; Hart-Davis is a well-known botanical artist. Illustrated.

The Herbal Year: Folklore, History and Remedies

Christina Hart-Davies

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A selection of Jarman's writings on Prospect Cottage and the plants in its strange and consoling garden. His light, iridescent prose gives the strangest sense to the reader of being able to ... read more

Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook

Derek Jarman

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The Land Gardeners: Cut Flowers

Bridget Elworthy

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£25.00

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The Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden

James Bartos

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The Hidden Horticulturists: The Working-Class Men Who Shaped Britain&# ...

Fiona Davison

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£10.99

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Michel Delvosalle: Garden & Landscape Architect ...

Wim Pauwels

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£75.00

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Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography ...

William A. Ewing

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English Orchards: A Landscape History

Gerry Barnes

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£34.99

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Kew Gardens

Virginia Woolf

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Gardener’s Palette: Creating Colour Harmony in the Garden ...

Jo Thompson

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£35.00

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How to make a wildflower meadow: Tried-And-Tested Techniques for New G ...

James Hewetson-Brown

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The 10-acre garden of this C17th Northamptonshire house has terraces, borders, rills, ponds, a bluebell wood, a wildflower meadow.

Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor

Susie Pasley-Tyler

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The informal, colourful Patthana Garden in Co. Wicklow.

Grounded in the Garden

TJ Maher

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Cheerfulness and skill from the Queen of Perch Hill.

A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons ...

Sarah Raven

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£27.00

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The great Japanese-American landscape gardener and artist, for whom space and simplicity were guiding principles.

Noguchi’s Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture

Marc Treib

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The labours of Hercules are as nothing to those of archeo-botanists... tamarisk, red bryony, poplar etc and their role in traditional medicine - based on cuneiform inscriptions and intimate ... read more

An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal

Barbara Boeck

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Tulip fever is incurable! Polly Nicholson grows these miracles - in her gorgeous Arne Maynard garden - perpetuating long pedigrees and looking for new breaks. Lovely photos.

The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Vari ...

Polly Nicholson

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