This is a wonderful companion book to the BBC series and a wonderful read if you love flowers, love the Victorian era or both! The pictures are wonderful and chapters include : The Bedding Craze, Sub Tropical Carpet Beds, Herbaceous Borders, Wild Gardens, Conservatories and Stovehouses, Plants Under Glass, The Orchid, The Rose, Cut Flowers,Flower Shows, Forcing Flowers, Mr Lee's Violets, Personal Adornment, Alpines,Rocks and Ferns, Decorating the Mansion, Town and Parlour Gardening and Memorial Flowers. It's very well written, an easy read and gives good insight into the gardening practices of the time as well as giving a gardener great ideas to try now as well.
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