Book shines light on the world’s most spectacular gardens

THERE’S one thing that we gardeners love at this time of the year, apart from gardening, and that’s sitting in the armchair and leafing through seed catalogues, gardening magazines and gardening books.

I can spend hours partaking of this pursuit, admiring pictures of new species, good design features, ideas for planting combinations, and in my own head I have committed to buying nearly a whole seed list and redesigned my entire garden.

That’s what is so great about books and magazines, they wake up your imagination, allowing you to dream and let your creative juices free rein. Well this year my imagination has been sent into overdrive as I have been enjoying what can only be described as a tome of gardens.