This book gives advice from the Ruth Bancroft Garden and is by Cricket Riley, Alice Kitajima and Kier Holmes.
The San Francisco garden features Mediterranean plants that suit climate change gardens, aloe, agave, cycad, palms, succulents, banksia and grevillia are among them. Whether they will survive the UK winter is another matter.
The book is a US edition. Publishers are concerned about whether books will have international appeal, which could compromise the message of site-specific tomes such as this, However, there are universal messages and tey are increasingly relevant to gardeners in many regions, including western Europe.
Think decades-old planting at Beth Chatto or Hyde Hall for UK versions. After 2025's spring and summer, drought-resistant planting is a big deal again and this book shows you how to be dry, yet rich at the same time.
