Anna Pavord's books include The Naming of Names, The Curious Gardener, and, her most recent work, Landskipping. Her column in the Independent appeared from its launch in 1986 to the last print edition in 2016. She writes and presents programs for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chairman. For the past forty years she has lived in Dorset, England.
Beautifully updated ... There is perhaps no other flower quite as political and theatrical as the tulip, and it is thanks to Pavord that we can now call ourselves true tulipomaniacs * Gardens Illustrated * A passionate masterpiece * Mail on Sunday * Well-spun and densely detailed ... A chronicle rather than a gardening book * New York Times * Anna Pavord is the grande dame of that school of British nature writing that is about beautiful things, beautifully written * The Times * Stunning * New Yorker * Ravishing * House & Garden *