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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 gardens and orchards of Agatha Christie, Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl; and, further afield, of Twain, Dickinson, Thoreau, Hemingway, Proust, Sand, Tolstoy...
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
The pioneering struggle of early C20th women gardeners, who were excluded from the profession on account of their sex by such august bodies as the RHS. Fiona Davidson's previous book was The... read more