A Gardener's Year

Edited by Tim Richardson, this anthology arranges writings on gardens through the four seasons. Extracts from gardeners, novelists, diarists, and plantsmen describe sowing, pruning, weather, pests, design, and the moods that attach to particular months. The pieces move between kitchen plots and grand landscapes, practical instruction and recollection. There is no single plot: the book's structure is the calendar, so that spring compost and seed catalogues give way to high-summer labour and then to autumn clearing and winter reading. It is a commonplace book of horticultural experience rather than a manual meant to be followed as a programme.

Bound in wrap-around colour illustrated cloth with gilt spine lettering.