'Roderick Floud's ground-breaking study of the history, money, places and personalities involved in British gardens over the past 350 years gives fascinating in

An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Brita

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller A New York Times B

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic

Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird