The Well-Tempered Garden

About this book

This is the classic work by a gardener who combines a passionate love of his subject with a critical intelligence and a good helping of wit. THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is packed with the sort of information keen gardeners crave - from planting weeding and the pleasures of propagation to annuals water-lilies and worthwhile vegetables. Hailed as a really important addition to horticultural literature when it was first published THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is as fresh and enlightening and as entertaining for gardeners in the 21st century as when it first appeared more than thirty years ago.