The Accidental Garden

‘Absolutely enchanting … With wisdom, wit, erudition and modesty, Mabey explores the edgeland between cultivation and wildness’ - Isabella Tree, author‘A calming reflection on the enduring resilience of nature … a discursive, philosophical memoir about everything from the human desire to shape nature to what Mabey calls the ambiguous experience of gardening in the midst of an environmental emergency’ - Financial Times‘Delightful … The Accidental Garden provides an overview of Mabey’s evolved thinking over a lifetime … Richard Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing’ - New Statesman‘Inspirational … meditative … an advocate for a new non-domineering understanding of the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world’ - Spectator‘This is part memoir, part naturescape and part gardening book. … there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat’ - The Times

Richard Mabey is one of our greatest nature writers. His books include the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, Food for Free, Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants and Nature Cure. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norfolk.