TONY LORD , photographer, writer and horticultural consultant, holds the Victoria Medal of Honour of the RHS. He has also won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Best General Gardening Book.
Illustrations in a book about a famous garden should be of four kinds. There should be two-page spreads of gorgeous panoramas, intimate close-ups of individual plants and flowers, garden plans, and pictures of the people who created the garden. The book should also give the garden's history, telling us about the people who planned it and brought it into being. We should learn what ideas shaped the garden, where the urns came from, and why certain plants have been chosen. Lord, a well-known garden photographer and author and member of several Royal Horticultural Society committees, provides all this and more. Each chapter of his beautiful and readable book deals with a separate garden room of Sissinghurst, the garden of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. The final chapter takes us "Behind the Scenes," where we meet the current gardeners, see the greenhouses and tools, and learn about schedules for deadheading, pruning, and planting. This would be a fine addition to any collection of landscape architecture, horticulture, or gardening.-Carol Cubberly, Univ. of Southern Mississippi Lib., Hattiesburg
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