Hugh Johnson is one of the world's pre-eminent writers on wine as well as an award-winning gardening writer. His previous gardening books include Trees, first published in 1973, The Principles of Gardening and Hugh Johnson in the Garden. Hugh started writing Trad's Diary as the editorial column of the RHS Journal when it was remodelled and relaunched as The Garden in 1975. He has been writing the diary ever since, since 2008 as a blog (www.tradsdiary.com).
More so than his wine books, this demonstrates Johnson's literary prowess and ability to capture a sense of place and nature, reviewing everything from the pace of growth in woods to changing hours of daylight, national tastes, and gardener's urges to plant. Gardeners will find this literary reflection engrossing, and fun to read. --Midwest Book Review