Garden People

‘An endearing chronicle of a lost age’ - Sunday Times‘Fascinating and sometimes hilarious’ - The Times‘This is the record of the golden age of British gardening through the eyes of Valerie Finnis, who photographed the nation’s greenest fingers with warmth and wit’ - The Independent‘Eccentric, wise and beautiful faces peer out at us from a different age. The flowers, gardens and fashion are all fabulous’ - The Edible Garden

Ursula Buchan is an award-winning garden journalist and author who has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines. She trained as a gardener at the Royal Horticultural Society’s gardens at Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and has also presented two television series. Her many books include Gardening for Pleasure, Back to the Garden, The English Garden and Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan.