The secret life of the Georgian garden: beautiful objects & agreeable retreats

Illustrated throughout, this volume focuses on the daily life of the Georgian garden.

It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons.

It explains how by the 18th century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude, as well as food, drink, music and fireworks.

Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener.