Nothing’s coming up roses in the garden these days
Emotional geography is now a recognised academic subject. Is emotional botany heading the same way? This is a year for…
How to view the view
It’s not all picnics and cowslips. You need sense as well as sensibility to appreciate a landscape, says Mary Keen
Is there anything new left in gardening books?
‘Whither the novel’ was a great dinner party topic in the 1960s. It is a question less aired these days,…
This beautiful new history of Kew Gardens needs a bit of weeding
Edward Bawden’s Kew Gardens is a beautiful book. Lovers of early 20th-century British art will find it hard to stop…
