A really useful manual that covers a lot of ground without being overwhelming. Good on planting in shady or exposed sites, training, propagation, preserving petals, etc.
Another slim but excellent guide from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - how to grow, when and how to stake, propagate and prune; notes on individual species, etc.
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
A gardener's control is illusory - thanks to a myriad of other - "often argumentative" - organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run.
MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... 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