The Contemporary Garden
Celebrate the beauty and creativity of the world's greatest contemporary gardens through this stunning survey highlighting the leading designers of todayThe Contemporary Garden showcases 300 outstanding gardens in more than forty countries across the globe. Curated in collaboration with an international team of horticultural experts, this wide-ranging collection includes iconic public gardens such as the High Line and Changi Airport Garden, as well as private gems, such as a dreamy hillside garden in Morocco by Umberto Pasti and Anna Wintour's elegant garden in upstate New York by Miranda Brooks.Beautifully designed and illustrated, The Contemporary Garden celebrates each garden with a gorgeous large-format image and insightful description. Readers will discover the work of renowned garden designers and landscape architects, such as Fiona Brockhoff, Dan Pearson, Sarah Price, and Bernard Trainor, alongside projects by rising stars and owner-makers.Organized alphabetically by designer or studio name, the book's pages reveal a striking range of contemporary garden styles - naturalistic, community, wild, urban, botanical, dry, topiary, minimalist, edible, flower, and more - demonstrating how our evolving stylistic and horticultural aesthetic fosters an increasingly strong connection with the natural world.Both an inspirational resource and an authoritative reference, The Contemporary Garden will delight professional, recreational, and armchair gardeners of all ages.Garden designers featured include: Marian Boswell, Sam Cox, Erik Dhont, Isabel Duprat, Luciano Giubbilei, Olin, Piet Oudolf, Reed Hilderbrand, Amalia Robredo, and Tom Stuart-SmithGardens featured include: African Ancestors Memorial Garden, Chihuly Garden & Glass, Gardens by the Bay, High Line, Hunting Brook Gardens, Jardins d'?tretat, The Native Plant Garden at New York Botanical Garden, The Opera Park, and numerous private gardensAdvisors and contributors include: Richard Aitken, Matthew Biggs, Matt Collins, Sorrel Everton, Joanna Fortnum, Clare Foster, Noel Kingsbury, Stephanie Mahon, Tovah Martin, Michael McCoy, Colleen Morris, Paul Redman, and Tony Spencer
Rhs the Garden Almanac 2026
"A gardening book you shouldn't be without" - The Independent The world's leading authority on gardening, the Royal Horticultural Society bring you their essential companion to 2026. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour, it includes artworks by Annie Soudain, photographs, and advice from RHS experts, including Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter.This glorious month-by-monthguide is packed full of ideas and projects to set you up for the year ahead. With all-new advice on what to grow, wildlife to watch out for, and how to get the most from your garden. In this edition: Fiscover sustainable garden ideas; Find planting solutions for difficult situations; Learn how to encourage beneficial wildlife; and Get exclusivedesign tips from modern-day design heroes, such as Cleve West, Tom Stuart-Smith, Tom Massey and Ann-Marie Powell.The Garden Almanac 2026 also includes a complete task list for each month; decorative projects; recipes; pests, diseases and weeds to look out for; seasonal plants and tables charting sunrise, moonrise and the weather.Enriched with beautiful images from renowned printmaker Annie Soudain, and packed with photography, this is an invaluable guide for every gardener.
Food Forest Plants for Mediterranean Conditions
This is the third in Plants For A Future's acclaimed series of plant guides for food forests tailored to specific climate zones. Following volumes on temperate and tropical ecosystems, this book focuses on species suited to Mediterranean conditions-regions with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, often facing the added challenge of climate change.Whether you're designing a food forest in southern Europe, California, parts of South Africa, Australia, or the Middle East, this book offers a carefully researched selection of plants that can thrive and contribute to diverse, productive ecosystems. You'll find details on what parts of each plant are edible, how and when to harvest, how long it takes trees to bear fruit or nuts, and how these species can improve soil health, fix nitrogen, attract beneficial wildlife, or act as ecological pioneers.Drawn from the renowned PFAF plant database and supplemented by research into active permaculture projects across Mediterranean zones, this book is an essential tool for anyone cultivating sustainable food systems in challenging dryland conditions. Some featured plants may surprise you-less edible, but key to restoring degraded land and creating a healthy foundation for future yields.Discover how the right plants, chosen for the right climate, can regenerate landscapes and nourish communities-season after season.
Crisis Gardening
- The first section defines and explains crisis gardening in relation to agroecology, transformative change in food systems and public health.- The second section describes case studies from around the world of crisis gardening from various social-ecological perspectives.- The third section provides policy and practice recommendation and how to scale up the lessons from crisis gardening to transform food systems, public health systems, and policy and landscape planning processes.
Crisis Gardening
- The first section defines and explains crisis gardening in relation to agroecology, transformative change in food systems and public health.- The second section describes case studies from around the world of crisis gardening from various social-ecological perspectives.- The third section provides policy and practice recommendation and how to scale up the lessons from crisis gardening to transform food systems, public health systems, and policy and landscape planning processes.
