Tim Richardson

Now in a compact edition, the first major overview of the UK's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith. Landscape architect and designer Tom Stuart-Smith began his practice in London in 1998. Known for contrasting built forms with naturalistic planting, he has designed gardens, parks and landscapes in Europe, India, Morocco, the United States and the Caribbean. With clients such as the...

Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers. This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform. It takes you on a...

Step inside Sissinghurst, the world's most famous garden, and understand the strength of its attraction in this beautiful, once in a generation study. Since it was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson in the 1930s, Sissinghurst has captured imaginations with its unique and intricate design. From first sight of the Castle Tower to the magic...

Garden and landscape designers are adept at interpreting outdoor spaces and transforming them into creatively conceived environments. Their ideas rarely come spontaneously; rather, the thoughtful designer considers a space from different perspectives or for several seasons, working out spacing, planting, materials, and colour schemes in detailed preparatory sketchbooks. For this book, Tim Richardson, Director of the acclaimed Chelsea Fringe gardening...

An amusing and thought-provoking compendium of stories, anecdotes, writings, and reflections from this acute, knowledgeable, and irreverent commentator. A career spent travelling the world looking at gardens, and meeting their sometimes eccentric custodians has resulted in a fund of unlikely experiences and encounters. There was, for example, that alligator-infested American garden... or the time our hero set up his tent...