Gardening on the Edge : Drawing on the Cornwall Experience - Hardcover

Philip McMillan Browse is a horticultural consultant, and has been Director of the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation in California, and Director of the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley. He is one of the originators of the Eden Project in Cornwall, and has been Horticultural Director of the Lost Gardens of Heligan since its modern beginnings. His publications include Plant Propagation (1979), and Palms for Cooler Climates (1993). He is co-author of The Heligan Vegetable Bible (2000), and author of Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs (Alison Hodge, 2005).

'A long-awaited account of gardening in Cornwall and plant introductions of the past 50 years ... This account is a celebration of the art of gardening at the edge of knowledge and the land, and its lessons have both relevance and potential far beyond the Southwest. '... the book promises to be one of the most well-thumbed and talked-about reference works of its kind for many a year.' (Roy Lancaster VMH, OBE, The Garden, July 2004) 'This is a really useful book for anyone wanting to be adventurous in gardening with marginally hardy plants and to experiment with new plant introductions. It is enormously refreshing to read a gardening book written by people who really know their subject and who write authoritatively, and with pictures generally unavailable from the general run of picture agencies. 'You learn new things all the time from this book. ... '... there is a good list of specialist nurseries and suppliers in Cornwall, mail-order houses countrywide and specialist plant societies, as well as a six-page bibliography and a competent index. '... It is not a coffee-table book' (Sue Minter, Head of Living Collections, The Eden Project, Friends Magazine, no. 15, Summer 2004)