JACKIE BENNETT has written six gardening books including The
Writer's Garden (Frances Lincoln 2014), Wild About The Garden and
The Cottage Garden, as well as co-editing a biography of well known
catholic women, Convent Girls (Virago 2003). She writes for The
English Garden magazine and is a former editor of The Garden Design
Journal. She won the Garden Writer's Guild Gardening Column of the
Year 2009 for a series about her own Norfolk garden.
ANDREW LAWSON is a painter and a distinguished garden photographer
living in Oxfordshire. Awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's
Gold Medal for photography and twice winner of the Garden Media
Guild's Photographer of the Year Award, he has illustrated books by
many authors, including Penelope Hobhouse, Rosemary Verey, Anna
Pavord, Ursula Buchan, Tim Richardson, Mary Keen and HRH The Prince
of Wales. His own books include Plants for All Seasons and The
Gardener's Book of Colour.
"This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as
titles such as Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening
Life and Kim Wilson’s In the Garden with Jane
Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening
history."
“a true celebration and exploration into a central part of
[Shakespeare's] family life and private world”
“brush up your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in
this beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare’s gardens”
"This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as
titles such as Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening
Life and Kim Wilson’s In the Garden with Jane
Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening
history." “a true celebration and exploration into a central
part of [Shakespeare's] family life and private world”“brush up
your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in this
beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare’s gardens”'the best of
coffee table books: as well as looking beautiful it’s a fascinating
read...it’s part biography, part social history, part present-day
gardening guide. As Will, fond of a horticultural reference, would
have said: “Here’s flowers for you…” ‘
'The best of coffee table books: as well as looking beautiful it’s
a fascinating read...it’s part biography, part social history, part
present-day gardening guide. As Will, fond of a horticultural
reference, would have said: “Here’s flowers for you…” '
*Cambridge News*
"This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as
titles such as Marta McDowell's Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life and
Kim Wilson's In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers
interested in gardening history."
*Library Journal*
'High quality photography and an attractive design make this a fine
coffee table book - though it's much more than that! It's a
celebration that's a bit different from all the other books, as as
Will himself once wrote, 'Here's flowers for you'...'
*Four Shires Magazine*
'Jackie Bennett takes an interesting angle... A handsome book with
wonderful photographs by Andrew Lawson'
*The World of Interiors*
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