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    SUMMER READING

    Jun 22, 2023 5 minutes

    BRILLIANT ENGLISH GARDENS

    by Clive Nichols
    Clearview Books, 2022

    In Brilliant English Gardens, renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols offers a visit to more than two dozen gardens in England. This book allows the reader full immersion into each place through its generous imagery.

    Nichols provides a brief written introduction to each garden, describing its location and background information, such as history and size, and pointing out a few significant features or key plants that are then revealed in the images that follow the text.

    Indeed this is overall a visual book, with most of the pages devoted to photographs alone. What’s more, the photos do not share space, but instead stand as a full page or spread across facing pages. This allows the reader to really explore the gardens, examining the details illuminated by Nichols’s skill. Because there are no captions, the reader is free to pick up on what

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