"If you want a book to dip into, there is always something interesting to find. And if you want to be amused, exasperated or challenged, then read the lot. The most important thing is that on every page, Richardson takes gardens and gardening seriously." Thinkin Gardens "A hugely entertaining read with pieces that provide just the right amount of venom" Gardens Illustrated "The most independent, thoughtful, challenging gardening critic writing now. Every article here makes entertaining reading as well as being well worth pondering." -- David Sexton Evening Standard Best Gardening Books of 2016 "Incisive, witty, opinionated and thought-provoking, its subject matter is engagingly eclectic." -- Fionnuala Fallon Irish Times "A collection of short pieces by the marvellously opinionated, self-assured author and historian Tim Richardson...genuinely stimulating." -- Jane Powers Sunday Times Ireland "Informed criticism of what contemporary designers are up to is hard to find, but you can depend on Tim Richards - the best, indeed almost the only, garden polemicist we've got." -- Ursula Buchan Spectator "A collection of lively articles by one of the most intelligent garden critics writing today. Richardson is not afraid to prod, tease and question received opinion." -- Caroline Donald Sunday Times "Witty and full of perceptive comment." Times Literary Supplement "Tim Richardson is our most critically intelligent, observant and humorous garden historian." -- David Sexton "Noone writes better than the English gardening scene than Tim Richardson. He has a formidable range of reference and a brilliant way with words." -- Anna Pavord