Beth Chatto. The Beth Chatto Gardens 1960 - 2010. Celebrating Fifty Years.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Beth Chatto Gardens. 2010 pp.80 beautifully illustrated with col. & b/w. photos. throughout. 8vo. Fine softback. Scarce.
A commemorative publication - a mix of a Catalogue and a look back at Beth Chatto’s gardening experiences over 50 years. It begins with 50 plants that can tolerate drought, shade and water and has many contributions from fellow gardeners, garden writers and designers, friends and enthusiasts.
£19.50 [ref: 69806]

Biggs, M. et al. Gardener’s Question Time Plant Chooser.
Pub. BBC. 2003 pp.416 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in sl. torn dw.
£8.00 [ref: 40786]

Billington, Jill. Colour Your Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. The RHS. 2004 pp.192 profusely illustrated with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
Helps gardeners understand all aspects of colour in the garden including suggested plants and associations that can evoke a variety of moods and atmospheres.
£5.00 [ref: 49994]

Bird, R. Cassell’s Directory of Climbers and Wall Shrubs. Everything you need to create a garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 2000 pp.112 with colour photos and illus., throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
An instant reference to more than 250 plants.
£5.00 [ref: 46995]

Bishop, Matt. (et al). Snowdrops. A monograph of cultivated galanthus.
1st. Ed. Pub. Griffin Press. 2001 pp.xi, 369 with col. photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb work, the product of five years of research and careful observation. Written for gardeners, it presents a new look at the histories and descriptions of over 500 Galanthus cultivars, many of which are recorded here for the first time.
£175.00 [ref: 72333]

Bishop, Matt. (et al). Snowdrops. A monograph of cultivated galanthus.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Griffin Press. 2006 pp.xi, 369 with col. photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
The preferred edition. A superb work, repinted in 2006 (first published in 2001) and revised to include additional index to cultivar names, and updated section on snowdrop suppliers and gardens.
£175.00 [ref: 71632]

Blaikie, T. (& Birrell, F. (Ed.)). Diary of a Scotch Gardener. At the French Court at the end of the Eighteenth Century.
1st. Ed. Pub. George Routledge. 1931 pp. xii, 256 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Neat inscription dated 1931 to ffep. Spotting to fore-edges of text block and internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
Scottish botanist Thomas Blaikie (1751–1838), a favourite of Marie Antoinette, designed some of the most famous gardens in France. From 1775 to 1792, he kept a diary which gives a unique insight into the social history of revolutionary France.
£14.00 [ref: 71360]

Blanchard, J.W. Narcissus. A Guide to Wild Daffodils.
1st. Ed. Pub. Alpine Garden Society. 1990 pp.203 with 46 col. photos, line drawings and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Author’s signature to title page. Scarce.
Descriptions of over 150 species, varieties, forms and hybrids, all with detail including history, habit and cultivation.
£85.00 [ref: 71633]

Blomfield, R. The Formal Garden in England.
3rd. Ed. Rep. Pub. AMS 1972 pp.xvi, 250 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback.
Reprint of the third edition of 1901 with original illustrations by F. Inigo Thomas, this book is a historical survey of the formal garden, covering all kinds of garden architecture as well as the use of symmetry and symbolism.
£6.00 [ref: 70082]

Blomfield, R. The Formal Garden in England.
3rd. Ed. Pub. Macmillan & Co. 1901 pp.xvi, 250 with b/w. illus by F. Inigo Thomas. 8vo. Hardback. Neat inscriptions to ffep., (dated 1910 & 2003). Some spotting o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt decoration to front darkened and a little rubbed to spine, o/w. vg.
Blomfeld was an architect and defender of the formal style of landscape design, who came into conflict with William Robinson, the advocate of a wilder, more natural style. With illustrations by F. Inigo Thomas, this is a historical survey of the formal garden, covering all kinds of garden architecture as well as the use of symmetry and symbolism.
£14.00 [ref: 71357]