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.
Subtitled 'Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries', this is an illustrated study of the rare, the wonderful, the bizarre and the delightfully batty... 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
Modern British artists in the inter-war period: Evelyn Dunbar, Douglas Percy Bliss, Charles Mahoney, Gilbert Spencer, Clare Leighton, Eric Ravilious, Tirzah Garwood et alia. A slim catalogue... 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
The doyenne of English garden designers looks over her own magnificent career - she has designed over 70 (!) gardens world-wide, and counting... Many photographs.
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and Pierre Magnol to Sir David Attenborough, via Lady Gaga... The author is, amongst other roles, the president of the Linnaean Society.