Book review – gardening
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…
The real gardeners’ questions answered
Why is it that gardening in the public prints is so often treated as a fluffy subject for fluffy people?…
Pure Alice in Wonderland
Incredulity is rarely a word that crosses my mind when it comes to garden writing. This genre can, of course,…
Culture and horticulture
Edward Bawden’s Kew Gardens is a beautiful book. Lovers of early 20th-century British art will find it hard to stop…
Round and round the garden, again
Here’s a book co-authored by one dead woman and one living one. Sarah Raven is the second wife of Adam…
