Contents
Introduction i Trentham 1 New Perennials 2
Sissinghurst 4 Existentialist gardening 5
Small gardens 7 Dreadful 8
Garden ornament 10 Horticultural monomania 12
Plants and architecture 13
Personal questions 15 Love of plants 16
My week 18 Tom Stuart-Smith 20
Mikinori Ogisu 23
Sissinghurst again 26 Three cheers for colour 29 Duisburg Nord 31 American alligators 35
illa Gamberaia 38 Down with design 41
Ian Hamilton Finlay 43
Music and gardens 48
Great Dixter 50 The Sheffield School 53
What a way to go 55 RHS judging 57
Gardening clothes 58 The politics of self-sufficiency 60
Serre de la Madone 66
Ghosts 68 Landform 71
Chanticleer meets Great Dixter 76
‘Real’ gardening? 78 Robin Lane Fox in Oxford 80
Immersive not pictorial 82 Rosemary Verey 84 Lost heroes of gardening 88
Cycling to gardens 90