Beauty & Abundance

A Stunning Tour of Bucolic British Gardens

Clare Foggett

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Hardback

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Quadrille Publishing Ltd
16 April 2026

Garden design & planning; Gardening: plants; Landscape gardening; Gardening with native plants

Originally the small plots where rural workers grew the vegetables, herbs and flowers they needed, cottage gardens were romanticised and reimagined by nostalgic Victorian gardeners into a bucolic idyll. The style has endured ever since: drifts of colourful perennials mingle with fragrant roses, boisterous self-seeders teeter on the brink of chaos, fruit and vegetables scramble through rustic supports. Small in scale, wildlife friendly, natural and organic, 'old-fashioned' cottage gardens are perfectly in tune with gardening in the modern day.

This book will feature 20 of the most beautiful examples of cottage gardens in the UK today; from iconic gardens open to the public such as Great Dixter and Charleston in Sussex and Sissinghurst in Kent, to the lesser seen private spaces of notable creatives.

Abundant and dream-like, these gardens will transport you into a distinctly British world of peonies, foxgloves, roses and dahlias, with interviews with the designers and head gardeners featured to provide plenty of inspiration for bringing your own cottage garden to life.

By: Clare Foggett
Imprint: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 255mm,
ISBN: 9781837836413
ISBN 10: 1837836418
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Clare Foggett is the editor of The English Garden magazine, the UK’s best-selling luxury gardening magazine. A qualified horticulturist, she trained at Pershore College of Horticulture, and has worked in gardening publishing for the past 20 years, spending time at the RHS on members’ magazine The Garden, and 12 years at Bauer’s weekly title, Garden News. She’s a voluntary postholder for the Hardy Plant Society for whom she edits the HPS’s biannual magazine Cornucopia and is a member of the RHS Herbaceous Plant Committee. She is also a former chair of the Garden Media Guild, the association that brings together gardening media professionals.