Book Review – EBTS UK

Modern Topiary – a new book by EBTS member Darren Lerigo

EBTS WebAdmin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:07:15 +0000

Modern Topiary, Darren has tried to distil everything you need to make and maintain topiary - from classic pants like Boxwood and Yew, to the clipping of Hawthorn and Beech.In Part 1, the book explores the craft of topiary, the foundation techniques you need to clip well. In Part 2, the book looks at the […]

A Gardener’s Guide to Box

EBTS WebAdmin — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:06:27 +0000

Excellent new book by EBTS UK member Jenny Alban Davies reviewed by Lynn R Batdorf

A Rothschild Renaissance reviewed by Elizabeth Braimbridge

Chris Poole — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:00:30 +0000

This sumptuously illustrated book about the treasures of the Waddesdon Bequest is a breathtaking treasure in itself. The bequest is housed in the British Museum and the book marks its move to a specially created new gallery.

Norfolk Gardens and Design Landscape review by Marian Boswall

Chris Poole — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:58:58 +0000

One might question the hubris of describing one’s own work as a ‘sort of Pevsner for gardens’. Pevsner made it perverse to enter any county without the relevant Buildings of England volume on the passenger seat, next to the Ordnance Survey - a killer app which guided one through each architectural notable.

The Treatment of Buxaceae

Chris Poole — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:21:56 +0000

Many of you are already aware of the publication of Volume 19 Flora de Cuba with three families (Buxaceae, Lauraceae and Theophrastaceae) in Spanish by Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Germany.

Edwardian Country Life reviewed by Annette Balfour-Lynn

Chris Poole — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:13:54 +0000

The Story of H Avray Tipping by Helena Gerrish Frances Lincoln – ISBN 978-0-7112-3223-5 Topiarius Volume 16 p54 Henry Avray Tipping was at the forefront of the vanguard elite of country life at its most beguiling. He was the unsung hero of the early C2Oth garden and country house movement, eclipsed by his better known […]

The Art of Creative Pruning reviewed by Bruce Ginsberg

Chris Poole — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:07:44 +0000

by Jake Hobson Workman Publishing 2012 – ISBN 1604693568 781604693560 Topiarius Volume 16 p52 All over the world, wherever there are garden traditions, different local cultures have developed different traditions of clipping and training plants. Increasingly this previously confined, area-specific local tradition of technique is being shared around the world as part of a more […]

Discovering Welsh Gardens reviewed by Caroline Foley

Chris Poole — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:50:42 +0000

20 of the liveliest gardens selected and explored by Stephen Anderton and photographed by Charles Hawes. Graffeg – ISBN 9781905582204 Topiarius Volume 16 p53 It was when the Stephen Anderton, gardening correspondent to The Times newspaper, saw the Veddw and met the owner Charles Hawes (the award winning photographer much featured in this issue*) that […]