The Garden through the Year
A month-by-month guide to the favourite plants and flowers of the greatest gardener of all time
Graham Stuart Thomas
Foreword by Fred Whitsey
Preface by Wayne Winterrowd
Paintings and Drawings by Graham Stuart Thomas
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| ‘As elegant and idiosyncratic as ever’ | | – The Times |
| ‘Observation and experience fill every page with memorable insights. This is horticultural plantsmanship at its most sophisticated made accessible to all’ | | – The Garden |
Graham Stuart Thomas is arguably the world's greatest gardener. In his years as horticultural advisor to the National Trust, he restored and maintained some of Britain's most important gardens, including those at Hidcote Manor, Powis Castle and Sheffield Park.
The Garden Through the Year is an invitation to stroll around the garden, season by season, with this remarkable plantsman who proves a delightful companion, sharing his incomparable expertise with humour and insight.
This is a compendium of Thomas's favourite plants for all seasons, including new discoveries and surprising juxtapositions. It is illustrated throughout with with Graham Stuart Thomas's exquisite paintings and drawings, plus photographs by him – some from his own garden in Surrey – and other photographers.
Graham Stuart Thomas OBE has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society, plus their Gold Medal for his paintings and drawings. The Garden Writers' Guild gave him a lifetime achievement award in 1996, and the National Trust presented him with its Founder's Award in 1996.
Also of interest:
The Modern Garden |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500511101 | | ISBN-13 978-0500511107 | | | | 28.0 x 23.0 cm | | Hardback | | 328pp | | 345 illustrations, 277 in colour | | First published 2003 | | | | £32.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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