Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season

About this book

In this stunning reimagination of an entire season acclaimed and award-winning author and photographer Cedric Pollet presents 20 of the most beautiful winter gardens accross France and the UK. Winner of the Garden Media Guild - Garden Book of the Year award Pollet showcases these breathtaking winter gardens which are at their best when most gardens are at their barest. Rich with blazes of colour and light these gardens use creative structural planning and subtle textures to greate masterful visual and sensory ensembles. From berries and barks to vibrant shrubs and evergreens these gardens will delight and inspire in equal measure all captured in extroardinary photographs by Pollet one of todays masters of garden photography and accompanied by insightful text which picks out the reasons these gardens are so special. The second half of the book is an illustrated directory of over 300 plants which encourage you to achieve these effects in their own gardens. From the author of bestselling Bark: An Intimate Look at the Worlds Trees this beautiful guide is a unique and unmissable book on some of the most creative and inspiring gardens around today.