This bedside companion is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration, in which practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out with an entry for every night of the year: practical advice from the 17th-century gardening diarist John Evelyn; inspiring prose from Elizabeth von Arnim and John Milton; astute commentary from Horace Walpole on William Kent; Nancy Mitford on the vulgarity of a Surrey garden; and Tennyson waxing lyrical on an Arabian night garden.
