Since its beginnings in 1897, "Country Life" has been distinguished by its weekly articles on gardens and by the outstanding quality of its specially commissioned photographs. Together they form the most comprehensive and evocative record of English gardens in existence. "Country Life" has been in the forefront of horticultural fashion from the outset, and it has continued to encourage and reflect all the most exciting developments in gardening. Tim Richardson draws on this remarkable legacy to chart the challenges, changes and surprises of English garden design throughout the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, an idealized vision of the English cottage garden began to supplant the grandeur and formality of Victorian gardens, and Gertrude Jekyll's innovative planting of the herbaceous border and her aesthetic colour theories became hugely influential. Jekyll's famous collaborations with Edwin Lutyens produced the seminal masterpieces of the Arts and Crafts movement -...

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