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A vivid tale of what happened when two women, some donkeys and a dog named Whiskey set off on the world-famous Stevenson Trail in France.

Following the roaring success of the first Potting Shed Papers, here is a second helping of essays, filled with yet more revelations from the world of gardening.

Practical advice and help on designing and maintaining your own rock garden. Comprehensive and up to date.

How to make the best choice of trees and use them effectively as part of a successful garden design, plus guidance on how to plant trees and maintain them thereafter.

A witty exploration of gardening in Britain – from why Britain is so wet to an account of Charles Darwin's obsession with earthworms and a history of lawns and lawn-mowers.

New and exciting ways to use the tulips in your garden and guidance on growing and cultivating them. Over 470 colour photographs.

A collection of essays discussing Jo Self's work, an interview with the artist herself and vivid full-colour reproductions of her flower paintings with a personal commentary.

The definitive book on conifers for gardeners everywhere. Includes a directory of 250 conifers.

An indispensable handy guide for the new gardener, with straightforward information on both simple and complex gardening issues.

Myths and uses of plants from Greek and Roman kitchen gardens, with botanical illustrations.

A biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made, culminating in the story of Chartwell in Kent, where Churchill lived for more than 40 years.

City Garden explores the challenges and the advantages of gardening in built-up surroundings and shows you how to make the most of your urban space.

A lively and readable life of Linnaeus, author of Systema Naturae, charting his rise from being a poor student in Sweden to eventually founding the Royal Academy of Sciences.

An exploration of one of the most enigmatic and intriguing gardens in Europe: the Sacred Wood at Bomarzo in central Italy.

A stroll through the 400-year-old gardens at Chatsworth in the company of Deborah Duchess of Devonshire.

This fascinating personal account describes the evolution of an English garden created on the Giudecca in Venice at the turn of the century.

Ancient Greek verse in translation - from Homer to Sophocles - with illustrations for each verse.

A pocket anthology of nineteenth-century French poetry, illustrated with impressionist paintings.

History of the gardens and parks of Hampton Court Palace, illustrated by Vivian Russell's colour photography.

The re-creation of the great garden at Hatfield House has been one of the most exciting and closely observed garden enterprises. Now, it is recorded and displayed in this revelatory book.

Explores the richness and variety of Roman gardens across the Empire and discovers how they have influenced later gardens.

This book explores the quest taken on by 20th-century landscape designers to find a new style through which to express the modern age. Case studies of 29 landscape designs.

Planting plans and more than 200 colour photographs of Monet's garden at Giverny.

This book shows exactly how you can use organic principles to create a beautiful and environmentally-friendly garden.

This stylish and simple guide shows you how to make effective and changing plant displays in containers, and maintain them with ease.

Turn your dream garden into a reality with the help of structured record pages to organize your ideas, decide your priorities, survey and draw your plot, as well as keeping a photographic record of before and after.

An anthology of poems about flowers, written by a broad range of poets, selected by Charles Elliott and illustrated with botanical prints.

Charts the evolution of sundials around the world from the earliest neolithic rondels and stone circles.

A selection of more than 40 of Van Gogh's most vibrant flower paintings, with extracts from his own writing and insightful comments on the symbolism of his subjects.

Essays on gardens and gardening in the context of the wider intellectual and cultural world.

Guide to creating a water feature for any garden.

Part of an illustrated three-volume guide to the wild flowers of northern England suggesting where and when you're likely to be able to see them.

Part of an illustrated three-volume guide to the wild flowers of northern England suggesting where and when you're likely to be able to see them.