Anthony Paul

Plant and Flower Books

From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "The Observer". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books, showing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for the subject and her lively literary flair.

From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "The Observer". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books, showing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for the subject and her lively literary flair.

From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "The Observer". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books, showing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for the subject and her lively literary flair.

Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s. This book offers a brief history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, and of the people who built and lived in them from common squires to kings and queens.

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of the writing of noted Bloomsbury figure Vita Sackville-West. One of the most well known lesbian authors of the 20th century, Sackville-West was a central figure among the Bloomsbury modernists, and had a torrid love affair with Virginia Woolf. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel writing, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known for her novels, "The Edwardians" and "All Passion Spent", and aristocratic writings about English country gardens.

This is a collection of Vita Sackville-West's letters to Virginia Woolf, assembled with extracts from Virginia's replies and a linking narrative. It illuminates each woman's contemporaries, times, travels, their moments of levity, their periods of despair. And it reflects the private voices of two women, as their friendship deepened from formal admiration to become one of the most searingly intense affairs in modern literary history.

Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933 "Ardent, seductive, sexy, politically wise and powerfully enduring..... These lyrical (often flamboyant) letters are a timely gift."

As an unmarried seventeen year old Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition - her desire to become an artist. Instead, she becomes the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, and to the dismay of her pompous children she abandons the family home for a tiny house in Hampstead.

Twelve chapters capture the atmosphere of the successive months, encompassing the minutiae of plant and wildlife behaviour in the garden and hedgerow, celebrating the intimacies of a rural world in an idyllic setting but with an eye to the modern world and an appreciation of progress. The author also wrote "The Garden in Winter" and "Good Planting".

In this book the author describes ways to turn a garden into a colourful and well-stocked year-round source of impressive flower arrangements. She selects over 60 appropriate plants and suggests borders that won't be ruined by overpicking.

This guide to planting features the gardens of Beth Chatto, Christopher Lloyd, Penelope Hobhouse, Rosemary Verey and others, showing the planting schemes of these gardens. It explains why the gardeners used particular plants and the philosophies behind the plant associations they have created. Arranged thematically, the book covers seasonal planting as well as border planting, planting with water, ornaments and containers, planting a kitchen garden, wall planting, woodland planting and formal planting.

This guide sets out Rosemary Verey's principles of gardening in an accessible way, by taking the reader on a personal tour of her own garden` at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire. A culmination of her 30 years of experience as a gardener and garden designer, it attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year. The book invites the reader to share in her artistic vision and experience.

A practical reference book covering planting throughout the seasons, detailing plant associations, offering guidance for successful planting and utilizing difficult areas of the garden. The author's garden at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire won a "Garden of the Year Award".

This practical guide to growing hardy geraniums offers advice on improving plants through cultivation techniques, provides instructions on where and how to plant hardy geraniums, and makes suggestions on how to use them for camouflage and in association with other plants. An A-Z section serves as a comprehensive reference and includes American and Australian species and exotics from all over the world, and propagation is examined in depth.