Biographical note:

Ursula Buchan is an award-winning garden journalist and author of more than 20 years' experience. After Cambridge University, she trained as a gardener at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She has presented two series on flower shows for Channel 4 and has appeared on BBC radio. She writes regularly on gardens for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator and has published many books.

Main description:

This Royal Horticultural Society-branded anthology presents the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. [The monthly magazine was first published in 1871 as The Journal of the RHS, today it goes free to all RHS members which total 360,000 in the UK.] Collected and curated by Ursula Buchan, herself an anthologist, this title presents a narrative of thoughts and opinions for keen gardeners to help navigate the gardening year, and comprises the best writing from the last 20 years (tbc).This 304-page reading book will include short essays, opinions, thoughts and excerpts from garden writers and designers such as Cleve West, Christopher Lloyd, John Brookes, Noel Kingsbury, Andy Sturgeon, Tim Richardson, Anne Wareham, Lia Leendertz, Ursula Buchan, Nigel Colborne, Mary Keen, James Alexander-Sinclair under the universally-appealing subjects of: Growing your own; Garden Wildlife; Garden Design; The Environment; Garden Fashion; The Seasons; Trials and Tribulations and more.