Beauty & Abundance
British Cottage Gardens
$67.45
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
Originally the small plots where rural British workers grew the vegetables, herbs and flowers they needed, cottage gardens were romanticised and reimagined by nostalgic Victorian gardeners into a bucolic idyll.
The style has endured ever since: drifts of colourful perennials mingle with fragrant roses, boisterous self-seeders teeter on the brink of chaos, fruit and vegetables scramble through rustic supports. Small in scale, wildlife friendly, natural and organic, ‘old-fashioned’ cott…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837836413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837836418 |
| Author: | Clare Foggett, Jonathan Buckley |
| Publisher: | Quadrille Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Quadrille Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.97kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 263mm x 313mm |
Clare Foggett
Clare Foggett is the editor of The English Garden magazine, the UK’s best-selling luxury gardening magazine. A qualified horticulturist, she trained at Pershore College of Horticulture, and has worked in gardening publishing for the past 20 years, spending time at the RHS on members’ magazine The Garden, and 12 years at Bauer’s weekly title, Garden News. She’s a voluntary postholder for the Hardy Plant Society for whom she edits the HPS’s biannual magazine Cornucopia and is a member of the RHS Herbaceous Plant Committee. She is also a former chair of the Garden Media Guild, the association that brings together gardening media professionals.
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