This terrifying little book represents an attempt by a professor of philosophy to establish – what else? – a philosophy of gardens. None, he argues, presently exists. There is plenty of garden writing, discussion of gardens, theorising about what makes a garden good or bad, but no real philosophy of gardens acceptable to a critical thinker like himself.

Feb 2006

Desperately Seeking Sakura

A Hurrah for Kniphofia

Growing, Growing, Gone

Green Fingers

The Eleventh’s Hour

Ways of Seeding

Prime Mover

Sunken Swallows

Getting out of Jail

Pragmatic Plantsmen

A Ghost Village

Foetid Romanticism

Lifting the Flap

A Rose is Not A Rose

A Blackbird’s Nest

Letters From America

Politics and Parterres

Horticultural Masters

Biological Beauty

A Green-Fingered Globe

Elegant Taxonomy

Herbaceous Boarders

Beautiful Monster

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