ENGLISH GARDENS

by Kathryn Bradley-Hole (Rizzoli £62.50)

SIXTY-TWO pounds and fifty pence! Actually, this book, subtitled ‘ From The Archives Of Country House Magazine’, is so vast, comprehensive and stunningly produced that that’s very nearly a bargain.

Pictured here are some of

England’s poshest and best tended gardens, photographed at the height of their seasonal beauty. It might give you a few ideas of your own, should your garden be large enough to incorporate a maze.

For the rest of us, this is pure garden porn.

For once the words need hardly bother us: the pictures are everything.