I've researched and written extensively on period gardens, whether for cottage or castle, and everything in between. I've also grown a vast range of 'period' plants, from Elizabethan gems to 19^th century 'bedders'. I've also restored and replanted kitchen gardens (my own, and others) so that they have produced everything from artichokes and lettuces to melons, apricots and musk strawberries. I've also experienced the problems of trying to do too much (and have sometimes had to restrain clients from building gardens that they could never hope to maintain).

Books I've written:

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GEORGIAN GARDENS (Robert Hale) 1979
THE KITCHEN GARDEN (Robert Hale), 1984SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS, (Aura/Marshall Cavendish) 1985
THE GARDEN TRIUMPHANT, 1988 (Viking in the UK, Harper and Row in the US) - this is now available via the Good Gardening Page!
PLANTING THE PERFECT GARDEN, (Macmillan) 1991 - I am currently re-engineering this as a web-book. Have a look at progress so far!
PLANTS FROM THE PAST (Viking) 1987 (with James Sutherland)
GARDENING WITH ANTIQUE PLANTS (Conran Octopus) 1997
CLASSIC PLANT COMBINATIONS (Conran Octopus) 1998
CLASSIC GARDEN FEATURES (Conran Octopus) 2000
PLANTS THAT SHAPED OUR GARDENS (Frances Lincoln Ltd, Harvard University Press) 2002
DANGEROUS GARDEN (Frances Lincoln Ltd, Harvard University Press) March/May 2004
CLASSIC GARDEN PLANS  (Frances Lincoln Ltd  Nov 2004)