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The year in books

Books on gardening have had a good year but not such a great year as British gardens themselves. As ever, they offer Christmas presents for all tastes. The fashion for self-grown vegetables has clearly encouraged a return to the soil, not [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

10 gardening books for Christmas

This is a truly sumptuous garden book with quite beautiful illustrations (as they should be at this price). But it is not merely a pictorial pleasure: Jennifer Potter is the acclaimed biographer of the Tradescants, and this handsome volu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Hoe, Hoe, Hoe: Gardening books for this Christmas

After visiting Great Dixter, the late Christopher Lloyd's garden in East Sussex, I still stagger out of the place high as a kite with visions: spires of green winged orchids littering the meadow grass, a vast furcrea with a neck as t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Winter a great time for garden 'how-to' books

Anything is possible now in our gardens," says Rita Hassert, a Morton Arboretum librarian. "There are no weeds and no pests." Hassert is referring to the utopian gardens in our imagination and literature that bloom profu [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Books: The thorny world of competitive rose gardening

The prettiest garden flowers can be emotionally hazardous. Gardeners are prone to an overwhelming obsession with their plants. The history of human plant lunacy is long, including the tulip mania, orchid fever and fern craze of earl [...]