Not just a pretty place, why gardens are the frontlines in the battle to save biodiversity
Non-fiction
Gardens have a role to play in reversing climate damage
Four very different, strikingly vernal books about gardens and gardening arrive in a cluster, as if to emphasise the fact that time is of the essence.
Three are written by respected luminaries, each finding deep ecological and political resonances among the soil. The fourth is by a gardening celebrity and is solely concerned with showing how to make our gardens more conducive to the bees and butterflies whose numbers have fallen off a cliff in recent years.
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