You Should Have Been Here Last Week

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 in the woods at Great Dixter in a thunderstorm, only to find he was not where he thought he was.

On a more serious note, the book contains some of Tim Richardson's most influential and provocative columns as well as articles and essays on specific gardens, places, and landscape themes.

You Should Have Been Here Last Week is an essential read for anyone intrigued by the secrets and surprises of garden exploration.