BOOK REVIEWS
ROOTBOUND: REWILDING A LIFE
by Alice Vincent, Canongate Books, £14.99, ISBN 978-1786897701
An inquisitiveness underpins Alice Vincent’s book: a natural compulsion to seek and nurture green amid London’s grey. It is Nature’s unwavering constancy that Vincent finds grounding, as a twenty-something contending with the pressures of ambition, loneliness and heartache.
Rootbound is both relevant and important, questioning what it means to call oneself a gardener, and where horticulture fits within the modern urban experience.
Reviewer Matt Collins is head gardener at the Garden Museum.
GROW FRUIT & VEGETABLES IN POTS
by Aaron Bertelsen, Phaidon Press, £24.95, ISBN 978-0714878614
Aaron Bertelsen has spent his life loving plants and as a passionate cook has always had a special interest in growing fruit and vegetables. If you have limited space and
