‘The Secret Gardeners is a WONDERFUL book. Just beautiful. It will live, page open, on my coffee table.’ Prue Leith (one of the Secret Gardeners)
The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and musicians.
It includes composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh; entrepreneur Richard Branson; architect Anish Kapoor; actors Jeremy Irons, Rupert Everett, Griff Rhys Jones and Terry Gilliam; chef Prue Leith; musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Nick Mason and Sting; playwright Julian Fellowes; film director Paul Weiland; and designers Kirstie Allsopp and Cath Kidston.
Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners' inspiration and passion are stunningly-reproduced photographs revealing the beautiful gardens that the public rarely see.
Amongst these gardeners you'll find the plantaholics, the scene-changers, the view makers, the weeders, the hot-colour fanatics and those who use their garden to retreat from public life.
This new edition introduces the gardens of Jeremy Clarkson, Catherine FitzGerald & Dominic West, Prue Leith and the book's photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas.
Kirstie Allsopp
The Branson Family
Daniel Chadwick
Gus Christie
*NEW* Jeremy Clarkson
Julian Clary
Rupert Everett
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Julian & Emma Fellowes
*NEW* Catherine FitzGerald & Dominic West
Terry & Maggie Gilliam
Jeremy Irons
Allen Jones
Anish Kapoor
Cath Kidston
*NEW* Prue Leith
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cameron Mackintosh & Michael Le Poer Trench
Nick Mason
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne
Griff Rhys Jones
*NEW* Hugo & Silka Rittson-Thomas
Sting & Trudie Styler
Paul Weiland
Iwan & Manuela Wirth
Victoria Summerley is an award-winning national newspaper journalist who specialises in writing about gardens and gardening. Former executive editor of The Independent, in 2010 she won the prestigious Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year award, and she writes an award-winning blog. HUGO RITTSON THOMAS is one of the UK's leading portrait photographers. He started his career in the art world, studying at Central St.Martin's and Goldsmiths University of London, and took part in the landmark exhibition Temple of Diana alongside Tracey Emin at The Blue Gallery in 1999. Hugo lives and has a studio in London.
