Lane Fox, Robin — Variations on a garden

R. & L., Oxford. 2nd edition, originally published by Macmillan in 1974. Fine. Fine. Written by an Oxford history lecturer who also supervises the gardens of New College and pens a gardening column in the Financial Times. Ostensibly about the way gardens respond through the seasons, the balance of permanence and transience, and the author's favourite plants for each, this very readable book wanders off into other subjects such as the life story of he first two John Tradescants. x, 182 pp.