Product Description

The essential independent guide to garden visiting, published annually since 1990, now comes illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, many of them featuring gardens and public spaces that deserve to be far better known. Long acknowledged by the gardening press as the leader in the field, it is now not only a work of reference but also a book to treasure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99095 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 584 pages

Review
Very good on recent entries. Visitors who follow its starred selections are pretty sure to hit on the best options in each county. (Financial Times )

No garden-lover should leave home without it. (English Garden )

If you love gardens make sure you pack a copy of the Good Gardens Guide before you go away. (BBC Good Homes )

An essential independent reference book for all garden visitors and enthusiasts, selecting only gardens of real merit. (Good Book Guide )

About the Author
Peter King is a distinguished author and editor who has been involved in the publication of over 30 books. He has written on a variety of topics, including the expeditions of lady travellers, the travel writings of George Nathaniel Curzon, Shackleton’s South and Scott’s Last Journey (Duckworth, 1999). He founded The Good Gardens Guide in 1990 with the late Graham Rose, gardening editor of the Sunday Times.

Katherine Lambert is a distinguished and prolific garden writer and editor. She has worked on the Good Gardens Guide since 1996 and has been Joint Editor since 2004. She helped to edit Rosemary Verey’s The Garden in Winter, was co-editor with her of The American Man’s Garden and Secret Gardens, is author of Hell with a Capital H, the story of six survivors of Scott’s last expedition (Pimlico, 2002). She is currently working on a book combining gastronomy and early Victorian social history.