An image comes to mind of the author sipping something white and delicious, flinty, grassy... Mmmmm. A reminder to all gardeners to take the time to enjoy their labours.
The two authors - husband and wife - settled in the west of Ireland over thirty years ago, casting off from their life in the US on a romantic impulse to begin a new life near Christine's fa... read more
Delightful slim volume from the Garden Museum about the garden at Prospect Cottage, in the same format as their recent ones on Cedric Morris and Ivon Hitchens. Includes essays by Howard Sool... read more
Combining neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the psychotherapist author is further qualified to write this book being married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the garden designer and winner of umpteen awa... read more
In praise of curiosity: the author's investigations began when she found herself living next door to its two-acre remnant. Part biography, part memoir, part history of science, this is as in... 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
Delightful and clever selection: Bannerman's nose must spend much of its time dusted with pollen, like one of Eva Ibbotson's heroines (Anna Grazinsky, in the book with a dachshund that swall... read more
There are 50,000 different edible plants in the world yet only 15 of them make up 90% of our staples... Informative and full of excellent vegetarian recipes contributed by many well known na... read more
Delicious, slim publication from the Garden Museum, for their spring exhibition: Costin's theatricality and de la Haye's academic role at the London College of Fashion cross-fertilise to pro... read more