Husbandry

"""The magic they bring to every project is elusive, but it is always built upon the solid foundations of a deep understanding of the history of a house and its relationship with the land. Happily, this book lifts the lid of the process that produces such warm yet thrilling results...This sharp and funny, warts-and-all approach does the great service of leaving the reader enthused and encouraged, not overawed by technicalities and hardcore...it  imparts all that really useful practical stuff so often left unsaid. And all is told with that same chaos and charm that underpins their enchanting gardens."" -- Tiffany Daneff * Country Life * ""So beguiling in its content, so poignant in its perceptions, that when I had finished it, I started at the beginning again, to read it all over again."" -- Anna Pavord * Gardens Illustrated * ""If you like gardens, houses, charm and other people's husbands then get this book. Nothing and no one keeps me awake till three in the morning apart, it seems, from Isabel Bannerman. Her style of writing is all her own and I love it."" -- Jasper Conran ""Broad in scope, Husbandry is beautifully and evocatively written...The Bannermans are original thinkers yet this is a useful and practical book. A garden like a marriage is ‘for pleasure and living in’ and Husbandry has a wellspring of ideas on the possibilities of place."" -- Lucy Bellamy * Garden & House * ""Beautifully written, achingly honest and sometimes irreverent, revealing all sorts of useful snippets on garden design."" -- Clare Foster * House and Garden * ""The real story of a garden and a relationship.  It would make a wonderful gift for the gardening person in your life or just buy it for yourself.  It feels a little like a hidden gem that might get overlooked as it is not a big or a flashy book, but treat yourself, you will not regret it."" * blackberrygarden.co.uk * ""Warm, candid and enormously entertaining, this book is as much about a marriage as a garden. There are gems of observation, thought-provoking statements and some really useful advice. It’s clear the gardens created by the designers Isabel and Julian Bannerman for clients, and their own home gardens, are tightly woven into their relationship and part of the fabric of life for a couple for whom garden-making is akin to breathing."" -- Anna Pavord * Sunday Times Gardening Books of the Year * ""This intimate and entertaining tasty morsel ruminates on love, marriage and garden-making. I felt that I'd lounged beneath the trees at Ashington Manor with a soul-mate."" -- Rachel de Thame * The Garden (RHS) * ""So out of the ordinary, so fantastically written, clever and very funny, that I might get two of them: husband-and-wife copies."" -- Jason Goodwin * Country Life * ""A wonderful gift for the gardening person in your life or just buy it for yourself.  It feels a little like a hidden gem that might get overlooked as it is not a big or a flashy book, but treat yourself, you will not regret it."" * blackberrygarden.co.uk *"