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A brilliantly helpful guide to filling the garden with successive waves of colour. Jonathan Buckley’s photographs make one want to rush out and start planting. This is a great book for resetting jaded palettes and includes recommendations for standout varieties, as well as a detailed month-by-month calendar of what to do that’s packed with excellent advice.
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There is no reason why even the most sophisticated contemporary design cannot embrace, enhance and encourage Nature. Written by a former Gardens Editor of
Country Life, this book gathers together images of 30 gardens from this country and around the world that show how this can be done in every type of location. Highlights include Thomas Doxiadis’s designs for a rugged coastal garden on Paxos in Greece, where the garden blends seamlessly into the landscape, and Jimi Blake’s garden of many parts at Hunting Brook in Co Wicklow.