From the Back Cover
New Garden Ideas: Penelope Hobhouse explores new and alternative garden styles with some of today's most innovative authorities, including a garden visit with John Brookes in his gardens at Denmans in West Sussex. America's premiere landscape architect, Jim Van Sweden, illustrates his innovative use of grasses and naturalistic planning styles. Nurseries & Plant Collections: Penelope Hobhouse presents the gardener's enduring passion for plants in a journey to Nori Pope's specialized plant-breeding nursery in Somerset and to the elaborate Victorian era plant collections in the restored gardens at West Dean, with Sara Wain and Jim Buckland.