Shakespeare's Gardens

Introduction
A biography through gardens; a literary flowering; a picture of Shakespeare
 
SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD • Tudor Gardens
The royal palaces; Dudley’s Kenilworth; patterns woven in silk and thread
 
THE STRATFORD BOY • Shakespeare’s Birthplace
The Shakespeares in town; useful herbs; the making of a Victorian garden
 
A COUNTRY CHILDHOOD • Mary Arden’s Farm
Food and Tudor vegetable growing; farming; the art of husbandry
 
YOUTH AND ROMANCE • Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
The rise of the cottage garden; wild flowers; Ellen Willmott and the Edwardian garden
 
THE GARDEN VISITOR • Shakespeare in London
The Inns of Court, gardens for pleasure; John Gerard’s herbal
 
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH • Hall’s Croft
The power of plants; medicine, drugs and cures; Doctor Hall and his patients
 
A MAN OF PROPERTY • New Place Garden
The search for Shakespeare’s last home; Nash’s House and the Great Garden
 
Endnotes
Bibliography
Chronology of Shakespeare’s works
Visiting details
Index
Acknowledgments
 

Jackie Bennett is a former editor of The Garden Design Journal, the English Garden Magazine and Gardening with the National Trust. She began her career in television, producing gardening and natural history programmes before become a full time writer. In 1990, she won an award for nature writing in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Awards and her books include The Wildlife Garden Month by Month (David & Charles 1990 -- reissued in 2011), The Cottage Garden and Wild About the Garden (1997 a Channel 4 tie-in book for the TV series presented by Carol Klein). She won the Garden Writer's Guild Gardening Column of the Year 2009 for a series about her own Norfolk garden. Jackie has studied garden design and landscape history. She runs writing workshops for the Society of Garden Designers and for the Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Andrew Lawson is widely regarded as England's leading garden photographer. He has provided the photographs for many books, including Good Planting by Rosemary Verey, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Designing Gardens by Arabella Lennox Boyd, Little Sparta (9780711220850) by Jessie Sheeler, The Garden at Highgrove by HRH Prince of Wales, and The English Garden by Ursula Buchan and The New English Garden also by Tim Richardson. He holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for Photography and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Writer's Guild. His garden in Oxfordshire is open under the National Gardens Scheme.