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Gardeners from all over the world have taken her lead on the right plant, right place and have had our eyes opened to texture, shape and form.’ Fergus Garrett CATHERINE HORWOOD is a social historian with a passion for plants and gardens. ‘Of all the gardeners I know, it is for Beth that I feel the Her books include Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 deepest respect.’ Alan Titchmarsh to the Present (Virago, 2010), Rose (Reaktion, 2018), Potted ‘Beth’s garden was perhaps the most original British History: The Story of Plants horticultural creation of the twentieth century. It will and the Home (Frances Lincoln, 2007) and Keeping Up continue to have a profound effect on designers across Appearances: Fashion and Class the world in the twenty-first century.’ James Hitchmough, Between the Wars (Sutton, 2005). She has written for Professor of Horticultural Ecology, Sheffield University newspapers and magazines including The Times, Daily Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants tells the story of the most Mail, Gardens Illustrated and influential British plantswoman of the past hundred The English Garden. Her blog, www.gardeningwomen.com, years. Beth Chatto was the inspiration behind the ‘right has a worldwide following. plant, right place’ ethos that lies at the heart of modern gardening. She also wrote some of the best-loved gardening books of the twentieth century, among them The Dry Garden, The Damp Garden, and Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden. Some years before her death in May 2018, aged ninety- four, Beth authorised Catherine Horwood to write her biography, with exclusive access to her archive. It also Publication September 2019 includes extracts from Beth’s notebooks and diaries, never previously published, bringing Beth’s own distinctive and SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £30 much-loved voice into the book. Most of the photographs 230 x 170mm, 288 pages from Beth’s personal archives have also never been seen in 978-1-910258-82-8 print before. For Beth’s legions of fans, Beth Chatto: A Life Colour and b/w illustrations with Plants is the personal story behind her beliefs and throughout the struggles and determination that brought her success. Rights sold: German NEW TITLE Scent Magic notes from a gardener ISABEL bannerman In Scent Magic, a book which is at once romantic ISABEL BANNERMAN was and extremely practical, plantswoman, designer born in Paddington in 1962, the and garden-maker extraordinaire Isabel Bannerman youngest of five children. She began immerses the reader in the luscious smells of gardening when, as a university the garden through a warmly written account of student, she met Julian Bannerman, owner of Bannerman’s Bar in the her year’s gardening; and combines this with an Old Town, Edinburgh. Together encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatic they moved to a derelict baroque plants to grow throughout the seasons. Whether mansion in Wiltshire and camped evoking the freshly baked sponge smell emanating while restoring the house and from wisteria, describing ‘Stanwell Perpetual’ as starting to design gardens and garden buildings for a living. With ‘the kind of rose that would taste of apricot and a lot of luck and hard work, they raspberries swirled together’, or championing the established a practice, winning Gold magic of the Himalayan cowslip, ‘scented profoundly Medals at Chelsea and working for and deliciously like the dark vault of a Damascus discerning clients including HRH spice merchant’, the poetry of her descriptions is The Prince of Wales and many high- profile celebrities. Isabel has taken here joined with personal memories and a lifetime’s photographs since she was at school experience of gardening and plant cultivation. and began making her particular style of botanical scans in 2003. She wrote Widespread praise for Landscape of Dreams includes: and photographed Landscape Of Dreams (Pimpernel Press, 2016). ‘A beautifully illustrated and endearing part- biography, part-overview of the thinking behind their work . .’ The Sunday Times Garden Book of the Year Publication October 2019 ‘An absolutely magical book. Such brilliant writing, SPECIFICATIONS vivid, engaged . a most potent record of true Hardback, £30 brilliance.’ Anna Pavord 270 x 210mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-49-1 ‘I just gorged myself on this magnificent book. Colour illustrations Utterly transporting. The first garden book I could throughout not put down.’ Dominic West NEW TITLE NEW TITLE Led by the Land Modern Plant landscapes by kim wilkie Hunters the search for interesting and useful plants DR SANDY primrose ‘A revelatory story of how landscapes in human hands can Much has been published on the topic of plant hunting, KIM WILKIE had an intense become inhabited works of art, written by one of the most and almost all of it is about the plant hunters of the so- DR SANDY PRIMROSE MBE introduction to landscape. gifted of today’s landscape architects.’ called ‘golden age’ that ended with the death of Frank PhD has spent his professional He grew up in the Malaysian life as a biologist, initially in jungle and the Iraqi desert Sir David Attenborough Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for academia and then as a senior before being sent to school thinking that plant hunting itself came to an end in 1958 manager in pharmaceutical, in southern England. Having ‘If you want to make a landmark, do not grow gentians. – but nothing could be further from the truth. On the diagnostic and life science studied history at Oxford companies. He has also worked and environmental design at Get Wilkie to shape the myths of your dreams.’ contrary, there have been more new plant introductions with various government the University of California, Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times in the past thirty years than ever before. departments on topics such Berkeley, he set up his This book tells the stories of the modern-day plant as the detection of food fraud landscape studio in London in and the safety of genetically 1989. He is fascinated by the An updated and expanded edition of Kim Wilkie’s hunters – such pioneering adventurers as Mikinori engineered foods. He now link between land and culture classic work, widely acclaimed as a major contribution to Ogisu, Dan Hinkley, Ed de Vogel, Lin Yu-Lin, Bill works as a consultant helping and between memory and the literature on landscape, sustainability, regeneration Terry and Claire Scobie. The author examines the early-stage companies in the imagination. He continues to healthcare field. Sandy is a teach sporadically at Berkeley, and design. search for medicinal plants and the work of scientific keen gardener and lectures writes optimistically about land In addition to the many private and public landscape institutions, both of which have been largely ignored, extensively on plants, and place and is involved in designs described in the first edition of Led by the Land, and considers such developments as the effect of habitat horticulture and gardening. various national committees on He is passionate about landscape and environmental this revised edition includes new projects, among them destruction on plant loss and plant diversity. teaching and tries to be both policy in the UK. He lives in Kim Wilkie’s thought-provoking designs for the grounds entertaining and educational. Hampshire. of London’s Natural History Museum, tracing ‘the He lives in Buckinghamshire. passage from deep time to the present [and] to the future . exploring where we go next and how we can continue to survive in the narrow bands of atmosphere and topsoil that make life possible in the thin biosphere of the planet’.