CONTENTS

Foreword

PART ONE: PIONEERS OF DESIGN

Jekyll’s Restored Masterpiece

How Upton Grey Manor was brought back to life

Vita’s Lifework at Sissinghurst

The genesis of an exceptional garden

Miss Havergal’s Girls

Waterperry Horticultural School and the pursuit of excellence

‘We Made a Garden’

East Lambrook Manor, Margery Fish’s cottage garden

Barnsley Flair

The legacy of Rosemary Verey

The Beth Chatto Gardens

Plant communities and new beginnings

Mary Keen’s Private Refuge

Vistas, visions and possibilities

Kiftsgate Court

A garden in three acts

PART TWO: NEW DIRECTIONS

Where the Wind Blows

Gill Richardson’s masterpiece at Manor Farm

History Redefined

Lady Xa Tollemache and the gardens of Helmingham Hall

Flowers by the Sea

How an abandoned farm became a garden

The Hillside Garden of Sleightholmedale

Where order and disorder reign side by side

A Country Garden in London

Sue Whittington’s green paradise

Ringing the Changes

Helen Dillon’s surprising town garden

Bibliography

Addresses

Acknowledgments