Author(s): Jane Brown

Gardens

At the same time the photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes (The Garden at Highgrove, Great Houses of England and Wales) record a year in the life of the garden, from snowy winter mornings to the garden in springtime, from the extraordinary blaze of colour achieved for the summer garden parties to the autumn tints of its two hundred types of trees. The Garden of Buckingham Palace: An Illustrated History is bound to be the most eagerly awaited gardening title of 2004.