The English Garden

The Life Aquatic

irst published in 1982, Beth Chatto’s is a classic of British garden writing. Later updated, it draws on Beth’s maxim of ‘right plant right place’ and her sense of what worked in her own garden. Today, Beth’s Water Garden is cared for by Åsa Gregers-Warg. It includes ponds filled with moisture-loving plants, from those happiest submerged in water to those that

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