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The Creative Gardener
Inspiring People, Remarkable Gardens
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The Creative Gardener by Stephanie Mahon, editor of Gardens Illustrated, and award-winning landscape photographer John Campbell, presents an inspiring celebration of Britain and Ireland's most imaginative gardens - and the remarkable people who created them. Step inside the private worlds of artists, writers, designers, and makers...
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Stephanie Mahon and John Campbell present 25 beautiful British gardens, each one conceived by an influential creative and tastemaker - including artists, photographers, costume designers, printmakers, fashion designers, musicians, writers and more.
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The Creative Gardener by Stephanie Mahon, editor of Gardens Illustrated, and award-winning landscape photographer John Campbell, presents an inspiring celebration of Britain and Ireland's most imaginative gardens - and the remarkable people who created them.
Step inside the private worlds of artists, writers, designers, and makers whose gardens are as distinctive as their work. From city courtyards to wild country plots, formal spaces to naturalistic retreats, each garden reflects a unique vision shaped by its creator's passions. Discover how these outdoor sanctuaries feed creativity, and how artistry and horticulture combine to produce spaces of extraordinary beauty.
Among the featured tastemakers are Nigel Slater, whose layered Highbury garden offers woodland calm in the heart of London; Matthew Rice, the artist who carved a moat around his medieval Oxfordshire home and grows vegetables with theatrical flair; and Sarah Price, the celebrated designer whose Welsh garden is both experimental and deeply personal. Alongside them are pioneering professionals pushing boundaries in design and ecology, from Charlie Harpur at Knepp to Jonny Bruce at Prospect Cottage.
Richly illustrated and beautifully written, The Creative Gardener is a journey through gardens that marry imagination with nature - a book for anyone who loves gardens, artistry, and the stories that connect them.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781836004042
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Illustration: 200–250 colour illustrations
Contributors:
- By John Campbell
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 248.0mm
Height: 305.0mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 272
About the Author
STEPHANIE MAHON is an award-winning gardening writer and editor of Gardens Illustrated. She has written regular features for The Telegraph, Country Living, Home and Gardens, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times, among others, and is a two-time winner of Journalist of the Year by the Garden Media Guild. She is also the author of Wild Gardens (National Trust Books, 2022), Grow Pruning & Training, Grow Herbs and Grow Bulbs (all DK).JOHN CAMPBELL is a photographer and film maker specialising in gardens and landscapes. He is the photographer behind Buckingham Palace: A Royal Garden (Royal Collections Trust, 2021), Mounton House (Lund Humphries, 2022) and his work has featured in Country Life, Country Living, Country Homes & Interiors, The English Garden, RHS The Garden magazine and Gardens Illustrated.
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