The first major overview of the UK's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith
Tom Stuart-Smith is an English landscape architect, gardener and writer. He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and the Landscape Institute. He has written about landscape design and gardening for the Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph. Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic, former editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden magazine. His previous books include Avant Gardeners and The Arcadian Friends.
'Expect a serious case of garden envy when leafing through … The
methods and ideas for landscaping and planting throughout the book
are sure to inspire your own plot' - Grand Designs
'A generous page size and lavish photography depicting 24 of
Stuart-Smith’s gardens at their peak enable the reader to feel they
have walked into them … Throughout, the narrative is interspersed
with quotes enabling the reader to understand how Stuart-Smith’s
mind works … This book works on one level as a page-turning stroll
through beautifully landscaped gardens but, on another, makes for
quite a challenging read. Even the smallest of plots has a history,
a place in the landscape, and is perhaps more deserving of
considered design' - World of Interiors
'An awe-inspiring testimony to the possibilities of complex
planting, subtle landscaping and inventive thematic design' -
Inigo
'A treat for garden lovers and professionals alike … an expert
overview' - House & Garden
'Gardening books tend to stand or fall by their photographs and
this one earns its hefty price tag with outstandingly good images;
they are so beautiful that I found myself sighing with pleasure as
I leafed through them' - Daily Mail
'Thames & Hudson deserve the greatest praise for their inspired
choice of author, Tim Richardson, to document Tom Stuart-Smith’s
work for when you bring great people together the results can be,
as with this book, particularly special' - Paddy Toibin, 'An Irish
Gardener' blog
'The triangulation between place, people and ideas that Tom
Stuart-Smith aims for in his gardens has been gloriously echoed in
Tim Richardson's book … This book and the gardens it describes are
grand and opulent but fundamentally tender and thoughtful …[an]
illuminating oeuvre' - Gardens Illustrated
'A collaborative and conversational retrospective of the work – and
inner workings – of one of the UK’s most influential and
imaginative designers … illuminating' - Gardens Illustrated
'The gardening book of the year … The pictures are lovely,
obviously, and the detailed analysis absorbing, but the best thing
about the book are the essays by Stuart-Smith himself, who allies a
lyrical imagination and lovely prose with practical intelligence …
Wonderful' - Evening Standard
'Packed with detail … fascinating' - Garden Answers
'An impressive read… you can pore over the photos and glean
practical gems from the text. There are wondrous things here - not
least Stuart-Smith’s approach to sustainable gardening - that can
be emulated in the smallest plot' - The Times, Gardening Books of
the Year 2021
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