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
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 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
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
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.
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.
First published in 1901, Mawson's book was hugely influential for decades, both for garden designers and landscape gardeners. Large format, handsomely produced in dark green cloth, many ill... read more
How to keep chickens, make soap, create a kitchen garden, dip candles, tie knots, and a lot more. This might well take the place of the old 'Weekend Books' in an era of lockdowns.
Architecture, landscape, collections, books, food and wine - with contributions by Jon Meacham, Alice Waters, Jay McInerney, Annette Gordon-Reed, Xavier Salomon and others.
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
Though Repton came late to his calling as a landscape gardener (his coinage), his winning mix of attractive sketches, bound up into the famous 'Red books', and his taste for gentle, rolling ... read more
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 new edition of this marvellous book on Chatto's own garden, updated where necessary by two of the gardeners who work there now - David Ward and Asa Gregers-Warg. With a revised plant direc... 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
Ancient olives, boulders of clipped rosemary, glaucous and green: an experienced Mediterranean landscape gardener's work on this dry, salty island is full of stylish ideas for drought-resis... read more
52 parks in the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe and China, created from old waterfronts, railways, factories, etc. New York's High Line, which opened in 2008, is an early example of these innovat... read more
Overlooking the Beaulieu River, Exbury comprises 200 acres of outstanding woodland gardens. Begun in 1919, it became home to countless rare rhododendrons, collected and bred by three generat... read more
Chic and comprehensive, with glorious double-page spreads of Renaissance tapestries, essays on C18th gardens or the radical politics of horticulture, and a fascinating abecedarium. Large fo... 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