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‘Gardens, Annotated’ is a photographic compendium that puts a magnifying glass up to the design choices of the world’s best garden designers and landscape architects in a simplified, bite-sized way. With chapters on different principles of design, such as focal points, routes, and of course planting, there is a plethora of takeaways to apply to your own garden: discover, for example, how to achieve naturalistic planting schemes or how to use materials to create impact. This is garden design explained for anyone seeking inspiration.
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£26.00
'Fascinating in its literary focus and magisterial in its sweep, The Garden is a must-have book' SUE STUART SMITH
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£40.00
Featuring over 200 works from 1800 to today, explore the diverse ways the garden has inspired artists for centuries, and trace its shifting role and urgent contemporary resonances today.
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£35.00
The Creative Gardener showcases 27 beautiful British gardens, each one conceived by an influential creative, brought together in a beautifully curated collection by Stephanie Mahon and John Campbell.
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What does it take to restore a forgotten English country estate? For more than thirty years, filmmaker Paul Weiland and his wife Caroline have lovingly brought Belcombe Court back to life, transforming an overgrown Georgian estate into one of England's most enchanting gardens.
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£35.00
Scandinavian Gardens showcases 26 inspiring gardens exploring distinctive Nordic design traditions shaped by landscape and culture.
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£25.00
Step into a Persian paradise, wander through a Mughal masterpiece or lose yourself in Monet’s blooming haven at Giverny – ‘The Garden Through Time’ brings 45 extraordinary gardens to life in a beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries. From peaceful medieval cloisters to imaginative modern spaces like New York’s High Line, each garden offers inspiration and ideas you can adapt at home, whether you have a sprawling garden or just a few pots on a balcony. With stunning artwork and accessible, thoughtful tips throughout, this book blends the joy of discovery with practical insight. It’s a celebration of the garden in all its forms – ideal for anyone looking to reimagine their outdoor space or simply explore the beauty of gardens from their own armchair.
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£22.95
Britain is blooming. From sprawling stately homes to tropical hothouses, wildflower meadows to urban nature reserves, this guide is your shortcut to the best gardens across England, Scotland and Wales – all open to explore. You don’t have to be green-fingered to enjoy them: these are places for quiet reflection and inspiration, living symbols of care and vital havens for biodiversity. With practical tips on when to visit, this is your essential companion for restorative days out.
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£18.99
Secret Gardens of East Anglia offers an intimate tour of 22 private gardens across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, celebrating their history and horticultural beauty.
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£35.00
What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening traditions. Here, he finally brings his focus to home, journeying from the northern tip of Scotland to the Cornish coast, seeking to understand what our gardens tell us about ourselves as a nation. Encompassing historical gardens and public parks, mountains and seascapes, urban gardens and rural nurseries, glasshouses and community plots, each encounter is another link in a larger story of British identity: marks of ingenuity, eccentricity, and adaptation to changing environments.
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An exploration of the many ways in which green spaces can be the solution to some of our most pressing problems, from loneliness to climate change. Gardens and green spaces are at the vanguard of positive change. They are modern-day crucibles for ideas and innovation that are providing solutions to some of our most persistent problems, whether loneliness or illness, flooding or drought. Around the world, green-fingered thinkers and pioneering plants-people are harnessing the power of the wild to quietly find small-scale strategies to reverse these ills. It’s no longer just about aesthetics, but about what the great outdoors can do – save water, transform mental health, bridge social divides, educate vulnerable children, reimagine polluting industries and provide much reason for optimism in a rapidly changing world. Celebrating both the garden and gardener as integral players in a healthier future this book presents a series of strateg
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£22.00
In the heart of bustling European and American cities lies an overlooked yet vibrant corner of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. From pre-Industrial England to modern-day Washington, via the Paris Commune, Barrackia in pre-war Berlin, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny gardens, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, thrived by recycling nutrients, remedying contaminated soil and transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth. This title is a hymn to the most fertile agriculture in recorded human history, showing that it occurred not on farms but with little effort in small garden beds.
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£10.99
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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£9.99
Outdoor space is something everyone should have access to. But you don’t need a garden to become a gardener. Growing plants and vegetables forces us to pause, pay attention and look more closely. From the vantage point of even the smallest windowsill garden we can observe the passing of time through the shifting of the seasons, as well as the environmental changes the planet is undergoing. In this collection of essays, fourteen writers go beyond simply considering a plot of soil to explore how gardening is a shared language, an opportunity for connection, something that is always evolving.
