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
The ideal present for those who have the good fortune to be married to the rare type of tropical bird described above... Large format and beautifully designed with lots of lovely photographs... read more
Thomas Robins the Elder (1716-1770) recorded the country estates of the Georgian gentry - their orchards, Rococo gardens and potagers - like no other, with both topographical accuracy and de... read more
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
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
This extraordinary Californian garden was the creation of Ganna Walska, a Polish opera singer who bought the estate of Montecito in 1943 while briefly married to her sixth husband. Thereafte... read more
First and only hardback edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket. Blue-green cloth boards, attractive endpapers decorated with Kent's bucolic designs, and many black and white illu... 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
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
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 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