The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be. 'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be. 'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.
'Essential reading' Country Life'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday TimesWould your garden, small or large, in town or country, win a prize? Is there room for improvement? Everybody has favourite plants, but the ability to put them all together to ensure a splendid show throughout the year is a skill that must be acquired. THE WELL-CHOSEN GARDEN will guide you to making the most of your available space, help you avoid untimely gaps, colour clashes and many other pitfalls of garden planning.The perfect book for new and experienced gardeners alike.“Lloyd writes as if he were talking, volubly and well. He is funny, encouraging, informative - SUNDAY TIMESEssential reading - COUNTRY LIFEThe text is lucid, informative and light-hearted; beautifully and usefully illustrated - HOUSE & GARDENHe was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times - GUARDIANChristopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening - THE TIMESHe was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known”
Lloyd writes as if he were talking, volubly and well. He is funny, encouraging, informative SUNDAY TIMES
Essential reading COUNTRY LIFE
The text is lucid, informative and light-hearted; beautifully and usefully illustrated HOUSE & GARDEN
He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times GUARDIAN
Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening THE TIMES
He was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known -- Alan Titchmarsh
A gardening classic, as essential to every gardener as a sharp pair of secateurs or a good space -- Carol Klein on THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN
Christopher Lloyd taught us that we don't necessarily have to do things very differently - just better, and with all our heart SPECTATOR
British horticulture is blessed with many inspired plantsmen and elegant writers, but rarely do those qualities combine as seamlessly as in Christopher Lloyd INDEPENDENT
Christopher Lloyd spent years lovingly developing and refining his celebrated gardens at Great Dixter in Sussex. Throughout his career he was unparalleled in gardening journalism, writing for many publications from COUNTRY LIFE to the GUARDIAN. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. He received the OBE for services to horticulture in 2000 and died in 2006.
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be. 'Essential reading' Country Life 'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times Would your garden, small or large, in town or country, win a prize? Is there room for improvement?Everybody has favourite plants, but the ability to put them all together to ensure a splendid show throughout the year is a skill that must be acquired. THE WELL-CHOSEN GARDEN will guide you to making the most of your available space, help you avoid untimely gaps, colour clashes and many other pitfalls of garden planning.The perfect book for new and experienced gardeners alike.
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