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A SELECTION OF NEW & CLASSIC BOOKS FOR RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2019 Price and availability may be subject to occasional revision

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

‘CHERRY’ INGRAM: THE ENGLISHMAN WHO SAVED JAPAN’S BLOSSOMS Naoko Abe Ingram (1880 - 1981) was an ornithologist and collector, rich enough to be eccentric and to be free to pursue his passion for Japanese varieties of Prunus. NA has revealed an extraordinary life. £18.99 WILD: WILDFLOWER MEADOWS, PRAIRIE-STYLE PLANTINGS, ROCKERIES AND Andre Baranowski Sustainable designs inspired by wildnerness - native , wildflowers, meadows, little , etc. £32.50 KIFTSGATE COURT : THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN Vanessa Berridge, introduction by Robin Lane Fox, photographs by Sabina Rüber Italianate, English, formal and informal, these marvellous gardens are a tribute to the family that has owned them for a century, and bear witness to changing tastes balanced with continuity. £40 JAPANESE GARDENS: A JOURNEY Monty Don, photographs by Derry Moore The authors are ravished by the subtle harmony of the natural and the artificial in spring and autumn. £35 NATURALISTIC PLANTING DESIGN: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE Nigel Dunnett Plantsman and pioneer of the ecological approach to . £35 BRINGING THE MEDITERRANEAN INTO YOUR GARDEN: HOW TO CAPTURE THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE GARRIGUE Olivier Filippi Silver and green, scented, flashes of colour: ideas for temperate gardens prone to summer dry spells. £40 THE : HOW TO GROW FLOWERS FROM SEED Clare Foster & Sabina Rüber Charming, well-illustrated book perfect for the novice, with many good ideas for more experienced gardeners too. Covers various types of flower - decorative, edible, scented etc as well as for cutting. pbk £19.99 EILEEN HOGAN: PERSONAL GEOGRAPHIES Elisabeth R Fairman & Eileen Hogan A substantial survey of her work, published by Yale. £50 URBAN GARDEN DESIGN Kate Gould Transforms small spaces of every kind into green havens. £20 THE ARCHITECTURE OF TREES Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi First English language edition of this Italian marvel: 400 ink drawings of trees - and their shadows at different times of day - with and without foliage, drawn to a scale of 1:100. Large format. £90 THE APPREHENSIVE : MANAGING GARDEN PLANTS Griselda Kerr A general guide book for the less experienced. Very good on what to do when. pbk £16.99 RANKAFU: ORCHID PRINT ALBUM Stephen Kirby, Toshikazu Doi & Toru Otsuka Masterpieces of early C20th Japanese woodblock prints of orchids. Ravishing. £35 A LESSON IN ART AND LIFE: THE COLOURFUL WORLD OF CEDRIC MORRIS AND ARTHUR LETT HAINES Hugh St Clair We are delighted to offer early copies of this much anticipated book about this wonderful pair - iris-growers, gardeners, eaters of aubergines, lovers, parrot-bearers, teachers and artists. £30 THE ENGLISH GARDEN: A SURVEY Michael Symes An excellent new book on all aspects of this quintessentially English form, with its roots in classicism and the idealised cherished in the minds of many Grand Tourists. pbk £25 VICKERY’S FOLK FLORA: AN A-Z OF THE FOLKLORE AND USES OF BRITISH AND IRISH PLANTS Roy Vickery This dictionary of native, naturalised and cultivated plants is receiving outstanding reviews. £30 1

GARDENS OF BRITAIN

PRIVATE GARDENS OF Tania Compton Thirty-five stunning gardens around the country, including those of designers such as Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Tom Stuart-Smith and the Bannermans. Fabulous photographs and very large format. £75 THE LOVELIEST VALLEY: A GARDEN IN SUSSEX Stewart Grimshaw, photographs by Tessa Traeger The wonderful garden at Woolbeding, near Chichester, accompanied by first rate plantsman’s notes. £40 THE ENGLISH GARDEN Ursula Buchan, photographs by Andrew Lawson This attractive, informed survey has become a classic. Revised edition £25, coffee table version £40 AT WEST DEAN: THE CREATION OF AN EXEMPLARY GARDEN Jim Buckland & Sarah Wain The rejuvenation of these historic gardens by their head gardeners: a , Victorian glasshouses, a 100m Edwardian pergola, a sunken garden, an , ... £40 ANOTHER GREEN WORLD: LINN GARDENS Alison Turnbull & Philip Hoare Arcadian encounters on the Rosneath Peninsula in western Scotland: this is beautifully produced. £18.99 A NATURAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH GARDENING 1650-1800 Mark Laird Scholarly, finely illustrated study of the evolution of the . £45

GARDENS OF THE WORLD

NINFA: THE MOST ROMANTIC GARDEN IN THE WORLD Charles Quest-Ritson The iconic Italian garden built around ruins near Rome. A reissue by the Friends of Ninfa and scarce. £40 THE IRISH GARDEN Jane Powers, photographs by Jonathan Hession Forty of them in fact. £40 JAPANESE GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert The aesthetic journey, informed by Chinese literary models, from untamed countryside as the ne plus ultra location for a cup of tea, to artful contrivance of moss, water, stone and kiosk. £58 PARADISE GARDENS: THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAMIC GARDENS Monty Don, photographs by Derry Moore Ordered spaces for repose and contemplation, with pools, paths and fountains, reminders of heaven for the earth-bound. £35 GARDENS OF CORFU Rachel Weaving, introduction by Mary Keen, photographs by Marianne Majerus Private gardens ranging from romantic old estates to stunning contemporary works. £49.95 GARDENS ON THE EDGE: A JOURNEY THROUGH AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPES Christine Reid, photographs by Simon Griffiths Eighteen gardens from every state and territory and in every kind of terrain from rainforest to bushland, mountain to coast. Beautiful, diverse, exotic and resilient. £30 MOROCCO IN BLOOM Giuppi Pietromarchi, photographs by Giulio Pietromarchi This book looks at the plants suitable for southern Mediterranean gardens, arranged month by month as they flower. Includes many photographs of the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech. £35 THE GARDENS OF BUNNY MELLON Linda Jane Holden, photographs by Roger Foley BM designed the gardens for her own houses in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua and Virginia, as well as gardens at the White House for the Kennedys and in France for Hubert de Givenchy. £45 LA FOCE: A GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE IN TUSCANY Benedetta Origo Iris Origo's delicious garden: edited by her granddaughter. £58 GARDENS OF THE ITALIAN LAKES Stephen Desmond & Marianne Majerus The gardens of Lakes and Maggiore, including those at the villas Carlotta, del Balbianello, d’Este, Cicogna Mozzoni, della Porta Bozzolo, Isola Bella, Isola Madre, San Remigio and Taranto. £35 NEW NORDIC GARDENS Annika Zetterman Scandinavian landscape design - understated plantings and modernist hard landscaping. £28 THE ART OF THE GARDEN: CHATEAU DE CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE Chantal Colleu-Dumund Chaumont, the quintessential white-stone Loire castle, has vast gardens with borders melting into swathes of parkland laid out by Henri Duchêne. £85 GARDENS OF THE WORLD: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF GARDEN DESIGN Jean-Paul Pigeat Mixing the traditional with the contemporary, the ostentatious with the more intimate, old and new. A gorgeous large-format survey by the organiser of the Chaumont Garden Festival. £40 THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN 100 GARDENS Linda A Chisholm A chunky book, handsomely illustrated, from the Alhambra to Ireland, Japan to NY. £38.99

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GARDEN HISTORY

A LITTLE HISTORY OF BRITISH GARDENING Jenny Uglow Plant-hunters, apprentice gardening boys, allotments, tools, , grottoes, vistas: a classic. £18.99 : DESIGNING ENGLISH GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES John Phibbs, photographs by Joe Cornish The largest and most handsome book published to honour the recent tercentenary of Brown’s birth. £45 THE HAMPTON COURT ALBUMS OF Mikhail Piotrovsky Watercolours and drawings of Capability Brown’s unused designs for Hampton Court and its surroundings, bought by CtheG, who loved English landscaping, and now in the Hermitage. £32 THE MOST GLORIOUS PROSPECT: GARDEN VISITING IN WALES, 1639-1900 Bettina Harden Welsh parks and gardens through the eyes of early tourists: a type of visiting boosted hugely by the movement and the Napoleonic Wars. Illustrated, anecdotal and original. £30 GARDENS AND GARDENING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND WALES Jill Francis A fascinating and detailed study of Elizabethan and C17th gardens, their gardeners, plantings, designs and gardening practices. Far from all are “grand”, most are “gentlemanly”. £35 GREAT BRITISH GARDENERS Vanessa Berridge 450 years of them, from Gerrard on. Excellent. £25 GARDENS OF COURT AND COUNTRY: ENGLISH DESIGN 1630-1730 David Jacques The formal gardens that were largely swept away in the C18th by the passion for the Picturesque. £45 IDEAS OF CHINESE GARDENS: WESTERN ACCOUNTS, 1300-1860 Bianca Maria Rinaldi From Marco Polo and Jesuit missionaries to Robert Fortune and William Chambers... All fed the European appetite for . A remarkable survey based on primary sources, illustrated. £74 FLORA’S EMPIRE: BRITISH GARDENS IN INDIA Eugenia W Herbert A serious botanical study, beautifully produced, on colonial gardens and their legacy. £45

BOTANICAL ART TREASURES OF BOTANICAL ART Shirley Sherwood & Martyn Rix Beauty and science: lovely works from 1400 to the present, in the Kew and Sherwood collections. £20 OF GREEN LEAF, BIRD, AND FLOWER: ARTISTS’ BOOKS AND THE NATURAL WORLD Elisabeth Fairman Five centuries of exquisite watercolours, prints, cut-outs, sketchbooks, etc. £50 REDOUTÉ: THE BOOK OF FLOWERS Edited by Walter Lack Contains all the engravings from Pierre-Joseph’s Redouté’s illustrations of roses, many of his lilies and almost every illustration from his Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs. Substantial, beautiful. £50 JOSEPH BANKS’ FLORILEGIUM: BOTANICAL TREASURES FROM COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE Mel Gooding & Joe Studholme This superb publication is the first time that the botanical findings from the most important voyage of discovery have been available to the public. Very handsome. £65 FLORA: THE ERBARIO MINIATO AND OTHER DRAWINGS Fabio Garbari Some two hundred botanical drawings from an early C17th herbal, once part of the astonishing Paper Museum of Cassiano del Pozzo (1558-1657) in Florence. In two vols. (Please enquire about others in this series.) £165 MARIANNE NORTH: THE KEW COLLECTION Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew All her botanical paintings, which she offered to Kew in 1879 along with a gallery to house them. £40 THE ART OF NATURAL HISTORY: BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHBOOKS, AND OTHER MASTERPIECES FROM THE AGE OF EXPLORATION Pascale Heurtel & Michelle Lenoir A magnificent, immense book in a slipcase showing the best of the French collections. £195 RORY MCEWEN: THE COLOURS OF REALITY Martyn Rix The life and botanical paintings of this remarkable musician and sculptor whose life encompassed Ferraris and fritillaries. One of the greatest botanical illustrators. £35 SOROLLA: THE PAINTED GARDENS Blanca Pons-Sorolla Hispanic Giverny? Tantalising visions of sun-dappled courtyards and ceramic-tiled fountains. £35 LEENDERT BLOK: SILENT BEAUTIES Leendert Blok, edited by Gilles Clément Flowers as objects of desire in the fabulous chiaroscuro of the Dutch photographer’s autochrome photographs from the 1920s. Subtle and beautiful. £55 THE TRADESCANTS’ : THE MYSTERY OF A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTED FRUIT BOOK Barrie Juniper & Hanneke Grootenboer A facsimile of this mysterious and beautiful book, full of vibrant and somewhat primitive watercolours. £30

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BOTANICAL REFERENCE

GALANTHOPHILES: 160 YEARS OF SNOWDROP DEVOTEES Jane Kilpatrick & Jennifer Harmer A gorgeous book by a small press. Perfect for all galanthomaniacs. £45 FLORA OF THE SILK ROAD: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE Basak Gardner & Chris Gardner A new edition of this stunning book that covers the mountains and plains of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Central Asia and China. Seas of fritillaries... This is a great favourite of ours. £40 GENUS TULIPA: TULIPS OF THE WORLD Diana Everett One of Kew's outstanding surveys. Each tulip both illustrated and photographed in its habitat. £75 GENUS MECONOPSIS: BLUE POPPIES AND THEIR RELATIVES Christopher Grey-Wilson Another in Kew's remarkable series. (see above and below). £75 GENUS CYCLAMEN: SCIENCE, CULTIVATION, ART AND CULTURE Pandora Sellars & Christabel King A horticultural treasure – seriously good. £90 IDENTIFICATION OF TREES & SHRUBS IN WINTER USING BUDS AND TWIGS Bernd Schulz A fabulous guide - detailed yet extremely clear and accessible. First English translation from the German, and compulsively fascinating. The laureate of the most abstruse yet beguiling title. £45 FIELD GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Chris Thorogood An excellent guide that includes the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Suitable for a poacher’s pocket rather than a pack animal. £40 MAGNOLIAS IN ART & CULTIVATION Jim Gardiner, illustrated by Barbara Oozeerally A magnificently illustrated volume. Covers all species and about a hundred hybrids. £90 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS Michael Hickey & Clive King Useful rather than beautiful. pbk £39.99 OPHRYS: THE BEE ORCHIDS OF Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen & Niels Faurholdt Well-illustrated identification guide. pbk £40 & NATURAL HISTORY

JAMES SOWERBY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT’S NATURAL HISTORIAN Paul Henderson Sowerby (1752-1822) was an eminent natural historian of the period and produced numerous beautifully illustrated booklets on fauna, flora, fossils and minerals. £35 THE PLANT MESSIAH: ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF THE WORLD'S RAREST SPECIES Carlos Magdalena Horticulturalist and Nymphaeaceomaniac, CM has created a Noah’s Ark for rare plants at Kew. pbk £9.99 MOSS Ulrica Nordström Mosses and moss gardens around the world, from miniature terrariums and kokedama to great boulders and forests. For those who believe rolling stones are seriously missing out. £14.99 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER: A SIKKIM ADVENTURE Seamus O’Brien SO’B, who runs the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow, has followed JDH’s journey of 1847 to the Himalayan botanical treasure-house that is Sikkim. £40 JOSEPH HOOKER’S RHODODENDRONS OF SIKKIM-HIMALAYA Joseph Hooker A facsimile edition of the three-part work that made his reputation, first published 1849-1851, with W H Fitch’s lovely lithographs made from JDH’s own illustrations. £25 FRANK KINGDON WARD’S RIDDLE OF THE TSANGPO GORGES Kenneth Cox, Ian Baker & Ken Storm The authors retraced the epic 1924 -1925 expedition of FKW and Lord Cawdor to Tibet to collect plants and to search for an enormous - and chimeric - waterfall. £35 METAMORPHOSIS INSECTORUM SURINAMENSIUM Maria Sybilla Merian Another stunning facsimile - very large format to boot - of the German-born naturalist and illustrator's book on the flora and insects of Suriname, published in 1705. In a slipcase. £99 VON MARTIUS: THE BOOK OF PALMS Walter Lack The complete plates of von Martius’s ground-breaking three volumes, illustrated with chromo-lithographs, published in the early-mid C19th. A landmark in botanical illustration and taxonomy. £50.00 TREES

THE NEW ‘SYLVA’: A DISCOURSE OF FOREST & ORCHARD TREES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Gabriel Hemery & Sarah Simblet A tribute to John Evelyn’s original, with over 200 drawings £60

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THE COMPANY OF TREES: A YEAR IN A LIFETIME’S QUEST Thomas Pakenham An illustrated diary of Irish oaks and limes, Patagonian monkeypuzzles, Tibetan magnolias, golden oaks, blue-stemmed maples… by the tree-nut’s tree nut. hbk £30 / pbk £12.99 ARBOREAL: A COLLECTION OF WORDS FROM THE WOODS Edited by Adrian Cooper Eclectic essays on boskiness by Ali Smith, David Nash, Kathleen Jamie, William Boyd, Richard Skelton, Richard Mabey, and many others. Intelligent, sensitive and full of delights. £20 OAK AND ASH AND THORN: THE ANCIENT WOODS AND NEW FORESTS OF BRITAIN Peter Fiennes A history of English woodland, both natural and literary - snatches of Housman, Kipling, Keats. Anyone who can come up with the phrase “that vandal, Wordsworth” can only be rewarding... pbk £9.99 THE WOOD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF COCKSHUTT WOOD John Lewis-Stempel JL-S spent four years looking after a wood in Herefordshire, before he made his name as a writer with Meadowland and The Running Hare. This is his diary of one year there. £14.99 THE GLORIOUS LIFE OF THE OAK John Lewis-Stempel A slim book extolling the oak, a companion to his other delicious little volume The Secret Life of the Owl. £8.99 TREES: BETWEEN EARTH AND HEAVEN Gregory McNamee, photographs by Art Wolfe Stunning photographs of specimens and forests in six continents. Very large format. £50 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TREES Jonathan Drori, illustrated by Lucille Clerc An arboreal odyssey, engaging, informative and wonderfully illustrated. A ‘dipping’ book. £17.99 ILLUSTRATED TREES OF BRITAIN AND NORTHERN EUROPE David More The most complete guide to European trees currently available, with over 1800 species and cultivars. Substantial, authoritative, and fine illustrations. Indispensable. £40 WOODLANDS Oliver Rackham The late, great naturalist on wild woods, ship-building, forestry, archaeology, conservation, etc. pbk £12.99 THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: WHAT THEY FEEL, HOW THEY COMMUNICATE - DISCOVERIES FROM A SECRET WORLD Peter Wohlleben, introduced by Timothy Flannery The book most often described as “life-changing” by JS customers in recent years. An accessible and sympathetic account of how trees behave like families, tend to the sick, etc. hbk £16.99 / pbk £9.99 THE APPLE ORCHARD: THE STORY OF OUR MOST ENGLISH FRUIT Pete Brown An allergy to apples makes this account the closest the author can get to them... pbk £9.99 SYLVAN CITIES: AN URBAN TREE GUIDE Helen Babbs Line drawings and an informal approach make this an ideal starting point for interested metropolitans. £14.99 ARBORETUM: A HISTORY OF THE TREES GROWN IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Owen Johnson Johnson is registrar of the Tree Register of the British Isles, and his book is a detailed and wide-ranging survey of tree species both native and foreign. £40 GARDEN DESIGNERS & GARDENERS

THE GARDENS OF ARNE MAYNARD Arne Maynard, introduction by Rosie Atkins Arne Maynard’s style balances formal structure with soft and lush inner planting. £45 LANDSCAPE OF DREAMS: THE GARDENS OF ISABEL AND JULIAN BANNERMAN The gloriously dreamy gardens of the great designing duo who revived the stumpery. pbk £25 PLANTING: A NEW PERSPECTIVE Piet Oudolf & Noel Kingsbury Thoughtful, sustainable planting for both small spaces and parkland, from two pairs of very safe hands. £30 NATURAL SELECTION: A YEAR IN THE GARDEN Dan Pearson From London to a weather-prone Somerset slope. A knowledgeable plantsman, DP is also a romantic: he, like Vita Sackville-West, came upon pink tiger lilies growing amongst Astrantia in the Pyrenees... £20 LUCIANO GIUBBILEI: THE ART OF MAKING GARDENS In his own words. £45 REAL GARDENS Adam Frost The winner of seven Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show shows how these were done. pbk £16.99 ALBUM DU COMTE DU NORD: LE NÔTRE À CHANTILLY Jean-Pierre Babelon A facsimile of the ravishing album of Le Nôtre’s plans and elevations of the gardens at Chantilly, with its Chinoiserie kiosk, , stables, canals, walks etc. It was given to the ‘Comte du Nord’, a pseudonym for the future Tsar Paul I, travelling incognito, who visited in June 1782. (Text in French.) £50 HEAD GARDENERS Ambra Edwards, photographs by Charlie Hopkinson The lives and achievements of those caring for some of the greatest gardens in the country - Broughton Grange, Sissinghurst, Great Dixter, Lowther Castle and Merton College. Well illustrated. £35

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THE GARDENER’S GARDEN edited by Madison Cox Encyclopaedic survey of gardens from every continent, some ancient but most modern. Scale and scope rather than the minutiae of design. Coffee table £49.95 or smaller format £29.95 LIVES OF THE GREAT GARDENERS Stephen Anderton to Charles Jencks, Le Nôtre to Roberto Burle Marx. £24.95 AN INFINITY OF GRACES: CECIL ROSS PINSENT, AN ENGLISH ARCHITECT IN THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE Ethne Clarke A slim but serious account of the influential designer of La Foce and renovator of Villa I Tatti. £32 THE THOUGHTFUL GARDENER: AN INTELLIGENT APPROACH TO GARDEN DESIGN Jinny Blom The renowned for her holistic approach and the calm, pastoral feel of her work, admired by Oudolf and many others. Useful and gorgeous. £35

PRACTICAL GARDENING

ESSENTIAL GARDEN DESIGN WORKBOOK Rosemary Alexander & Rachel Myers A fully revised and updated edition of this classic. £25 WINTER GARDENS: REINVENTING THE SEASON Cedric Pollet Twenty gardens in Britain and France whose imaginative structural planting, subtle textures and use of colour excel at midwinter. Fabulous photographs will cause a run on Acer palmatum ‘Sanguineum’. £30 THE ROSE David Austin DA should have been made a National Living Treasure for services to roses and, by extension, to us all. He will be remembered as one of the great rose breeders, on a par with Albert Barbier et fils. £39.50 NIWAKI: PRUNING, TRAINING AND SHAPING TREES THE JAPANESE WAY Jake Hobson Cloud pruning and more. Practical and serious, not trendy. £25 A GARDENER’S GUIDE TO TOPIARY: THE ART OF CLIPPING, TRAINING AND SHAPING PLANTS Jenny Hendy “One, two! One, two! And through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!...” How to turn your Tum-tum tree into a Jabberwock. £12 DOWN TO EARTH Monty Don MD’s classic account of his own garden and its tasks, month by month. £17.99 THOUGHTFUL GARDENING: GREAT PLANTS, GREAT GARDENS, GREAT GARDENERS Robin Lane Fox A selection from RLF’s splendid FT column - practical, civilised, wise. pbk £10.99 WOODLAND GARDENING: LANDSCAPING WITH RHODODENDRONS, MAGNOLIAS AND CAMELLIAS Kenneth Cox Encyclopaedic and brilliant on all aspects of woodland gardening - bulbs and other plants too. £40 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF Chris Bird Superb reference text. pbk £38.99 REVIVE YOUR GARDEN: HOW TO BRING YOUR OUTDOOR SPACE BACK TO LIFE Nick Bailey A delightful dose of optimism, practicality and imagination to restore neglected spaces. £25

THE GARDENER'S TABLE

THE GARDEN CHEF: RECIPES AND STORIES FROM PLANT TO PLATE The gardens of 35 of the world’s best chefs and their produce. £29.95 THE VEGETABLE GARDENER'S GUIDE TO Christopher Shein A great resource - easy to follow, practical guide to taking organic gardening to the next level. pbk £16.99 A YEAR AT OTTER FARM Mark Diacono Otter Farm is a smallholding in Devon. This won the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year 2014. £25 THE NEW Mark Diacono A second slice (see above) and very good. £25 THE GREAT DIXTER COOKBOOK Aaron Bertelsen Delicious and uncomplicated recipes based on seasonal produce, with good notes on kitchen garden maintenance. £24.95 FROM THE EARTH: WORLD’S GREAT, RARE AND ALMOST FORGOTTEN VEGETABLES Peter Gilmore ‘Heirloom’ vegetables grown for taste and sustainability. Magnificently photographed. £35

MISCELLANEOUS A LITTLE BOOK OF LATIN FOR GARDENERS Peter Parker By the author of Housman Country and biographies of Ackerley and Isherwood. Colo ergo sum. £12.99 BLOOMS: CONTEMPORARY FLORAL DESIGN Introduction by Clare Coulson The work of 80 contemporary floral designers: ranges from gorgeous displays to flights of extraordinary imagination, seasoned with moments of the wonderfully silly. Lavishly illustrated and inventive. £35

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THE BRIEF LIFE OF FLOWERS Fiona Stafford Charming, old-fashioned. hbk £20/ pbk £10.99 LIFE IN THE GARDEN Penelope Lively Partly a memoir of her own life in gardens (Cairo, Somerset and ), this is also an exploration of gardens in literature, from Alice in Wonderland to Virginia Woolf and Larkin. hbk £14.99/ pbk £9.99 FLOWER MARKET: BOTANICAL STYLE AT HOME Michelle Mason Rather gorgeous book on floral displays, inspired by Columbia Road flower market. MM is a florist. £20 IN THE GARDEN WITH THE TOTTERINGS Annie Tempest, introduction by Alan Titchmarsh The ever-delightful Dicky and Daffy totter gently about their borders, tripping over their tweeds and washing their grazes with gin... £12.99 WAR GARDENS: A JOURNEY THROUGH CONFLICT IN SEARCH OF CALM Lalage Snow On our human need and determination to garden in almost any circumstances. Perceptive, moving. £20 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS / GARDEN POEMS Two very tempting anthologies, pocket-sized, from the attractive Everyman poetry series. £9.99 each. Virginia Woolf, illustrated by Livi Mills Lovely hardback edition of W’s short story with various characters ambling about in Kew Gardens. £8 GLASSHOUSE : HAARKON’S WORLD TOUR OF AMAZING BOTANICAL SPACES India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson Palm houses to potting sheds around the world. £22 FLOWER COLOUR GUIDE Darroch & Michael Putnam Colour palettes for florists and gardeners. £24.95 EDWARD BAWDEN’S KEW GARDENS Peyton Skipwith Whimsical pleasures! £20 WILDING: THE RETURN OF NATURE TO A BRITISH FARM Isabella Tree A decade of letting nature take over again on a 3,500- acre farm in . hbk £20 / pbk £9.99

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We will be offering free small parcel p&p to UK addresses on orders from this list or made at our stand of £30 and over until the end of June 2019. For parcels weighing over 2 kg, we will offer free postage on orders over £100 for the same period. Please note that this catalogue represents only a fraction of our stock. We stock RHS books at our shop of course but will not be bringing them to RHS Chelsea Flower Show as there is an RHS shop on site.

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