ROSES FOR THE GARDEN features top rose authorities and rose gardens: world renowned rosarian David Austin Sr. from his Austin Nursery & Rose Garden in Albrighton; Patrick Taylor on the glory of old roses at Mottisfont Abbey, John Scarman on companion planting with roses at Lower Hall Worfield.
VISIONS OF NATURE: The Naturalistic Garden Style explores today’s most sought after garden style on both sides of the Atlantic, with a stunning visual tour of England's greatest 18th century landscape garden, Stourhead, and two of America's great naturalist gardens: Winterthur Gardens' March Walk and Longwood Garden's native plant woodland garden, Peirce's Woods.
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS: Garden Architecture & Ornament features the 20th century's grand dame of British horticulture, Rosemary Verey in her equally renowned Barnsley House garden, and Harold Peto's magnificent, restored 300' pergola at West Dean Gardens. Hobhouse covers all the structural essentials, large and small: from steps, walls, and paving, to pots, paint color and garden furnishings.
THE SUMMER GARDEN sets out Hobhouse's secrets for summer beauty and abundance – using a blend of annuals, perennials and biennials – in her garden at Bettiscombe, and with Sandra Pope in her spectacular yellow border at Hadspen House. Also featured, Caroline Burgess and two different summer garden styles at Stonecrop in Cold Spring, New York.
NURSERIES & PLANT COLLECTIONS highlights the influence nurserymen and plant collectors, and their finds of rare and indigenous plantlife, have for gardeners the world over. Hobhouse explores the Victorian era walled gardens at West Dean with Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain; Nori Pope, from his specialty nursery at Hadspen House affirms the gardener’s enduring passion for plants – and quest for ever new possibilities.
NEW GARDEN IDEAS explores new alternative garden styles, from Penelope’s first gravel garden at Bettiscombe to the eclectic mix of garden styles and plants at John Brookes' Denmans Garden, and James Van Sweden's innovative garden fronting the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.