The gardens and orchards of Agatha Christie, Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl; and, further afield, of Twain, Dickinson, Thoreau, Hemingway, Proust, Sand, Tolstoy...
Through the medium of art: including Pierre Bonnard, Roberto Burle Marx, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Gertrude Jekyll, Claude Monet, Marianne Nort and Howard Sooley. A nice chunk of a book from ... 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
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
Architecture, landscape, collections, books, food and wine - with contributions by Jon Meacham, Alice Waters, Jay McInerney, Annette Gordon-Reed, Xavier Salomon and others.
Gardens around the world that use sustainable practices - good water conservation, organic soil management, encouraging pollinators, etc - lavishly photographed by Clive Nichols, Marianne Ma... read more
By the gardener who radically changed garden design in the latter part of the C20th by focusing on the achievable and vernacular: low maintenance, beautiful gardens for all, with no need for... read more