Tim Richardson is a garden historian, journalist and critic. His books include The New English Garden (2013), The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden (2007), Great Gardens of America (2009), and Oxford College Gardens (2015). He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines including the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times and Gardens Illustrated. He is also the author of Oxford University’s course on the history of the English landscape garden, and advises the National Trust on landscape conservation. In 2014−15 he was visiting professor in landscape art at Vienna University of Arts. He is the founder-director of the Chelsea Fringe, the alternative gardens festival.
"Delightful...a great read for anyone who likes to challenge the
status quo, enjoys gardening or visiting gardens and has ever
wished they could stick a literary two fingers up!"
*A Pentland Garden Diary*
"His topics (targets?) are many and varied always spot-on, erudite
and beautifully written. I could tempt you with a hundred nuggets
but I won't, because every HORTUS reader should leave his armchair
right now and go out to buy a copy - preferably from an independent
bookseller. You will not be disappointed."
*Hortus*
"The perfect book for the Christmas stocking – small, compact
and a little treasure. It is a collection of Tim Richardson’s
columns, articles, essays and reviews and they are, first and
foremost, entertaining but also informative and thought provoking.
Tim Richardon’s style is witty, insightful, provocative and, above
all, enjoyable and fun to read. I loved it! Loved it!"
*Irish Garden Plant Society blog*
"Wide-ranging..Lots of food for thought"
*The Irish Garden (Pick of the Month)*
“If you want a book to dip into, there is always something
interesting to find. And if you want to be amused,
exasperated or challenged, then read the lot. The most
important thing is that on every page, Richardson takes gardens and
gardening seriously.”
*Thinkin Gardens*
"Here is a collection of articles, essays, reviews and columns
written for various publications between 2004 and 2015, on a huge
variety of subjects. Some are amusing, some thought-provoking and
some are downright contentious. All are worth reading. Tim
Richardson is a practiced writer and reviewer of gardens, styles of
gardening, designers, and gardeners both living and historic…
whether you agree with his views or not, there’s no denying he
expresses himself clearly and persuasively."
*The Professional Gardener*
“A hugely entertaining read with pieces that provide just the right
amount of venom”
*Gardens Illustrated*
"The most independent, thoughtful, challenging gardening critic
writing now. Every article here makes entertaining reading as well
as being well worth pondering."
*Evening Standard Best Gardening Books of 2016*
"Incisive, witty, opinionated and thought-provoking, its subject
matter is engagingly eclectic."
*Irish Times*
"There is lots of meat (or maybe high quality protein, if you
prefer) in these short pieces – plenty to think about, discuss, and
to challenge your thinking about gardening. And he is a good writer
rich in quotable passages, sometimes cutting, controversial even.
It is worth buying, this book and it is not even expensive. I wish
there was more garden writing of this quality."
*Tikorangi Garden blog, New Zealand*
"A collection of short pieces by the marvellously opinionated,
self-assured author and historian Tim Richardson...genuinely
stimulating."
*Sunday Times Ireland*
"Informed criticism of what contemporary designers are up to is
hard to find, but you can depend on Tim Richardson - the best,
indeed almost the only, garden polemicist we've got."
*Spectator*
"A collection of lively articles by one of the most
intelligent garden critics writing today. Richardson is not afraid
to prod, tease and question received opinion."
*Sunday Times*
"Witty and full of perceptive comment."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Tim Richardson is our most critically intelligent, observant and
humorous garden historian."
*David Sexton*
"Noone writes better than the English gardening scene than Tim
Richardson. He has a formidable range of reference and a brilliant
way with words."
*Anna Pavord*
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