Winter Gardens - Original Edition

In winter, the garden takes on a new, almost mystical guise. Whether you are drawn to the crisp shapes of a traditional topiary garden or the anarchy of a meadow full of seed heads, there is beauty and wonder to extract from every garden at this time of year.

With a foreword by renowned garden designer Dan Pearson, whose own garden features prominently within the pages, this beautifully produced book contains hundreds of full-page photographs to explore twelve extraordinary and contrasting gardens. Some are designed by well-known designers such as Arne Maynard, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Piet Oudolf and Tom Stuart-Smith, while others have been developed by their owners over many years. Andrew Montgomery’s exquisite photographs present the winter garden through a new lens, highlighting shape, texture and structure, and celebrating the elements that make these gardens as beautiful in winter as they are throughout the rest of the year. Accompanying essays and interviews by Clare Foster explore the history, design and planting of each garden, along with practical notes on topics from topiary and seed heads to winter blooms.

This is a luxurious, visual delight of a book. It is one of a new genre of self-published books pioneered by creative individuals who choose to bypass the lengthy and sometimes restrictive procedures of traditional book publishing to produce books with integrity, beauty and flair.