You Should Have Been Here Last Week: Sharp Cuttings of a Garden Writer: Sharp Cuttings from a Garden Writer

Tim Richardson

ISBN 10: 1910258350 / ISBN 13: 9781910258354

Published by Pimpernel Press Ltd, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Should Have Been Here Last Week: Sharp Cuttings of a Garden Writer: Sharp Cuttings from a Garden Writer
• Publisher: Pimpernel Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910258350
• ISBN 13: 9781910258354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tim Richardson is a London-based journalist and author specialising in the history of landscape and contemporary urban design; his fourteen books in this area include The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden (2007), Great Gardens of America (2009), The New English Garden (2013) and Oxford College Gardens (2015). He writes a regular column on gardens in the Daily Telegraph. Tim also advises the National Trust on landscape conservation and is the author of Oxford University's course on the history of the English landscape garden. He is the founder-director of the Chelsea Fringe, the volunteer-run alternative gardens festival.