"Shady plants deserve ambassadors like Susanna: someone who can view a dim corner as an opportunity rather than obstacle."–– Matt Collins, Head Gardener at the Garden MuseumWork with the light, grow plants and flowers, bring dark corners to life.This handbook will tell you everything you need to know to make the most of shady garden spaces. Whether your whole garden, courtyard or balcony is cast in shade, or you simp...

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is gardener and writer Susanna Grant's exploration of her thinking on history, value and meaning of nature in the city. Examining the premise that naming species allows us to expand our understanding, our interest, our ways of looking at the world around us, and the idea of plant-blindness—our tendency not to see what we can't name in the nature that surrounds us—she throws a spotlight on five of her favourite wildflowers with accompanying images ...