My Favourite Books

Some of my Favourite  Books to advise and inspire you….

Title Author / Publisher / ISBN

A Garden by the Sea
Lovingly described tale of the author’s beautiful garden on Fishers Island, Conn.

Leila Hadley
Rizoli International Publications Inc
0-8478-2651-1

Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden
With careful preparation, Beth refused to water and Won the Battle!

Beth Chatto, Photos by Steven Wooster
Frances Lincoln Ltd
0-7112-1425-5

Coastal Gardening
A jolly tale of creating a windswept garden on Scotland’s West Coast

Julian Slatcher
Crowood Press
1-86126-722-3

The Late Derek Jarman’s Garden
He wrote “Paradise haunts gardens, and it haunts mine”. Worth the pilgrimage to Dungeness, Kent

The Estate of Derek Jarman
With photography by Howard Sooley
Thames & Hudson
0-500-01656-9

Drought Resistant Gardening
 Handy  Pocket Guide to get you started.

Peter Robinson
RHS
Dorling Kindersley
0-7513-0697-5

Drought -Tolerant Plants
Waterwise gardening for every climate

Jane Taylor
Prentice Hall
0-671-86500-5

Seaside Gardening
Written in 1962, on her Cornish gardens and still worth seeking out.

Christine Kelway
W.H & L Collingridge Ltd
O/P try Abebooks

Seaside Gardening
An American perspective with sound advice and Plant Encyclopedia

Theodore James Jr. with photos by Harry Haralambou
Abrams, New York
0-8109-5517-2

Seaside Houses
The spirit of Family - A homage to summers by the sea

Jerome Darblay and Alexandra d’Arnoux
Ebury Press, London
0-09-177751-8

Seaside Interiors
This book inspired me to build a house on the shore at Seasalter.

Angelika Taschen
Diane Dorrans-Saeks (Eds)
Taschen
3-8228-6414-5

Plants for Dry Gardens, Beating the Drought. 1000 plants listed.

Jane Taylor
Frances Lincoln Ltd
0-7112-1222-8

Gardening on the Edge
Drawing on The Cornwall Experience

Philip McMillan Browse (Ed)
Alison Hodge
0-906720-33-8

Gardening on Sand
Miss Kelway considered her Cornish sandy soil” a basic gift” and created a garden we can all learn from

Christine Kelway
W.H. & L. Collingridge Ltd
O/P try Abebooks

Gardens by the Sea
Spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Inspirational planting and plant lists.

Barbara Segall
With photos by Gerry Harpur
Frances Lincoln Ltd
0-7112-1894-3

The Seaside Gardener
Channel Island magic based on 30 years experience. Highly detailed.  A must have.

Richard Mortimer
Beeline Publishers Ltd
0-9530860-0-3

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