Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden [Hardcover]

A lovely book for green-thumbed readers to read in the winter as they sit by the fireplace and await spring. Publisher's Weekly

InNatural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of hisObservercolumns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden. Traveling between his city-bound plot in South London and twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset, he celebrates the beautiful skeletons of the winter garden, the joyous passage into spring, the heady smell of summers bud break and the flaring of color in autumn.

Pearsons irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a newfound appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, readingNatural Selectionis a deeply restorative experience.An award-winning British landscape and garden designer, plantsman, writer and journalist,Dan Pearsons love of all things gardening stemmed from a young age. At ten years old, while his classmates were reading Enid Blyton and Alan Garner, he was devouring garden catalogues in his spare time. Dan Pearson went on to become one of the most celebrated gardeners of our time. Following in the footsteps of the legendary Vita Sackville-West, he was a weekly columnist for theObserverfor over a decade. He writes regularly for publications includingThe Times,Daily Telegraph,andGardens Illustrated.