Books
Here’s a list of books I’ve had published. Links will take you direct to the publisher.
The Wildflower Gardener, Conran Octopus, 1994
The Indoor Gardener, Headline, 1994
The New Perennial Garden, Frances Lincoln, 1996
- Widely recognised as a classic on planting design, and used on many garden design courses.
Readers and students have said how useful the plant variety tables are for helping them choose plants.
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Architectural Plants, Mitchell Beazley, 1996 direct from NK
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The first book that came out on the whole ‘big n’ bold leaf’ look.
Still quite a stylish looking book, as well as packed with information.
Shame the publishers didn’t try harder selling it.
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The Ultimate Planting Planner, Ward Lock, 1996
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A basic introduction to all aspects of planting design, rather than the wild look I am usually associated with.
It sold well, despite very old-fashioned design. This is one of the few books around on planting design, as opposed to garden design.
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Design and Plant a Mixed Border, Ward Lock, 1997
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Plants to transform your garden, Ward Lock, 1998
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Gardener's Factfile, Conran Octopus, 1999
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Designing with Plants (with Piet Oudolf),
Conran Octopus/Timber, 1999
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The first book I wrote about Piet Oudolf’s work, explaining his plant-focused approach to garden design.
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Bold Leaved Plants, Ryland and Peters, 2000
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Grasses, Ryland and Peters, 2000
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Natural Gardening for Small spaces,
Frances Lincoln/Timber, 2003
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Planting on roofs and walls (roof-greening etc.), co-authored with Nigel Dunnett, Timber Press, 2004
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The first, and still only comprehensive book in English on the subject.
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Gardens by Design, Pavilion/Timber, 2006
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“If there is a book that could sell the contemporary and innovative style of gardening to the gardening traditionalist then this is it.”
Roger Platts in The Garden, Sept.2006
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VISTA: the culture and politics of the garden.
A collection of essays co-edited with Tim Richardson. Frances Lincoln, 2005
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“Vista achieves two laudable aims set out by its two editors: to be questioning and to make the academic accessible”. Toby Musgrave in Gardens Illustrated, 2005
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“Vista is a fascinating collection of essays” Katie Campbell, Garden Design Journal, Feb.2006.
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Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space, with Piet Oudolf, Terra/Timber, 2005
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“this is something of a manifesto as well as a good ‘how-to’ book, and should be on the shelves of every practising landscape and garden designer….
highly readable but learned and rigorous…uses examples that are both sublimely beautiful and inspiring.” Philip Nixon in The Garden, April 2006.
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“contemporary garden guru Noel Kingsbury offers an appealing blueprint for a new kind of all-year-round garden….
brilliantly captured by Jo Whitworth’s photographs”. Christopher Stocks, The Independent on Sunday, 22.Oct.2006.
Forthcoming titles:
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Hybrid – A History of Plant Breeding, University of Chicago Press, 2008