English Gardens

With its lush green lawns and colourful plant borders, the English garden is a source of attraction and inspiration for gardening enthusiasts everywhere.

This book by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, one of Britain's leading gardening experts and long-time garden columnist for Coutry Life, offers an in-depth look at more than seventy gardens from across England and analyses what makes the English garden style so desirable.

Seasonal photographs capture the gardens - some grand, some personal, some famous, some rarely photographed - in their finest moments. Photographs from the Country Life archive tell the story of the English garden, from medieval monastery gardens to the 21st century. The creations of many of the great names in horticulture are featured extensively, including Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, Piet Oudolf and Arne Maynard, as well as world-famous gardens - Sissinghurst, Hidcote and Great Dixter.