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
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.
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
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.
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 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
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 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
Though Royal Gardener to both Georges I and II and designer of gardens at Kensington Palace, Houghton and many other illustrious estates, Bridgeman's geometric taste and works were mostly ob... read more
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
Twenty diverse gardens that thrive in Cornwall's unique interaction of climate and landscape: salt-blasted coasts, valleys gently steaming with temperate almost-rainforests, riverine pasture... read more