A new book on this Welsh paradise with Italianate terraces, a dell with a river at its bottom, and the famous laburnum-festooned walk. Copious photos, published for the National Trust.
The gardening book of the season and hugely anticipated - it's also the first overview of TSS's work. Contains twenty-four gardens, four essays and a good supporting text.
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
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.
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
The doyenne of English garden designers looks over her own magnificent career - she has designed over 70 (!) gardens world-wide, and counting... Many photographs.
Diacono is a serious gardener and nurseryman as well as a cook, so this has tips on propagation and storage as well as culinary uses. A really useful book for those who want fresh zingy flav... read more
A year in the life of the royal garden, lavishly photographed and with contributions by HM's head gardener, Mark Lane. It has a long history - James I & VI's interest in silk production has ... read more
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.
Another themed anthology from Daunt Newest in the Daunt Books series (At the Pond, In the Kitchen), this brings together essays from various Sandoe's luminaries (Penelope Lively, Francesca W... read more
Oudolf is the founder of the New Perennials, who sway like tall grasses to the sound of the wind across the Dutch landscape... With the hardback long out of print, this substantial paperback... read more
Fabulous photographs of the wildflower meadows created up and down the country for the 60th anniversary of ER's coronation. In tandem with various NGOs and charities, this initiative has an ... read more
A follow-up to the New York duo's unbelievably successful 'Flower Colour Guide' published in 2018. Flower arrangement by colour in as many different schemes as there are days in a week or tw... read more
Photographs by Christopher Lloyd of his own garden, juxtaposed with contemporary images. Introduction and notes by his former head gardener and current head of the Great Dixter Charitable Tr... read more
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 fairly academic collection of essays about the uncanny in gardens - ghosts, fairy sightings, nasty things in orchards if not woodsheds... who knew that 'ecogothic studies' is a Thing? M R ... read more
A facsimile edition of Carmontelle's original, illustrated presentation of the 8-hectare garden he designed for the Duc de Chartres in 1779, on the cusp of the French Revolution. It had an i... read more
Well, obviously it helps if you wear an enormous straw hat, a faded apron and just let it into your beautiful home... Thirty gardens from around the world that exemplify the Kinfolk aesthet... read more
An important account of Repton's work, bridging the period between Capability Brown's informality and the stiffer designs of the Victorians. Illustrated.
A welcome re-issue, by a lion among garden designers, about another. Caruncho's style is about light and line, space and verticality; he snakes rows of vines over an Italian hillside, breaks... read more