Book review – gardening history

‘Harvesting’ by Adrian Allinson. 1939 From Of Cabbages and Kings by Caroline Foley

Is there anything new left in gardening books?

22 November 2014 9:00 am

‘Whither the novel’ was a great dinner party topic in the 1960s. It is a question less aired these days,…

Castle Cottage in Near Sawrey, Cumbria, where Beatrix Potter lived after her marriage to William Heelis

Behind (almost) every great writer is a great garden

8 November 2014 9:00 am

It is a truism that writers of all kinds often find inspiration and solace in their gardens, as well as…

‘At the Cottage Door’, by Myles Birket Foster (1825–99)

Beauty in beastly surroundings

26 April 2014 9:00 am

The vast majority of books written about British gardens and their histories are concerned with large ones, made and maintained,…