Early Scottish Gardeners and Their Plants, 1650-1750

This book grew out of the author’s curiosity about what was growing in Scottish gardens of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He came to the conclusion, using primary sources, that the gardener’s skill in orchard, kitchen and flower garden flourished in the gardens of the gentry earlier and more often than has been commonly supposed.

Reviews of Early Scottish Gardeners and Their Plants, 1650-1750

Superbly illustrated from Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden's collection, this is a one of a kind garden history, focusing not on garden design and horticulture but on plants and those who grew them. "Scots Magazine""