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How to Read Gardens is the essential guide for garden lovers and visitors alike.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Types of Garden
Styles of Garden
Trees
Plants & Flowers
Landscape Features
Garden Buildings
Features
Appendices
Glossary
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements

About the Author

Lorraine Harrison has a master’s degree in Garden History from the University of London and has written several books on the subject. She is a successful gardener and gardening writer with a passion for exotic and heirloom vegetables and regularly contributes to Gardens Illustrated and Hortus. When not tending her own plot, she enjoys other people's gardens whether large or small, grand or humble.

Reviews

This handy pocket sized guidebook would be a useful companion for visitors to any garden, great or small, historic or modern, public or private.
*Countryman*

This attractive and lavishly illustrated book is an ideal present for friends who claim not to know much about the history of gardens, but delight in visiting them
*Cornwall Garden Trust Journal*