Gardening on the Edge: Drawing on the Cornwall Experience - Tapa dura

'A long-awaited account of gardening in Cornwall and plant introductions of the past 50 years ... This account is a celebration of the art of gardening at the edge of knowledge and the land, and its lessons have both relevance and potential far beyond the Southwest. '... the book promises to be one of the most well-thumbed and talked-about reference works of its kind for many a year.' (Roy Lancaster VMH, OBE, The Garden, July 2004) 'This is a really useful book for anyone wanting to be adventurous in gardening with marginally hardy plants and to experiment with new plant introductions. It is enormously refreshing to read a gardening book written by people who really know their subject and who write authoritatively, and with pictures generally unavailable from the general run of picture agencies. 'You learn new things all the time from this book. ... '... there is a good list of specialist nurseries and suppliers in Cornwall, mail-order houses countrywide and specialist plant societies, as well as a six-page bibliography and a competent index. '... It is not a coffee-table book' (Sue Minter, Head of Living Collections, The Eden Project, Friends Magazine, no. 15, Summer 2004)

Ten respected and practising gardeners, and one of the world's foremost evolutionary biologists write on their experiences of 'gardening on the edge' - at the edge of knowledge, and at the edge of the land. Since the plant introductions of the nineteenth century, Cornwall has been at the forefront of the art and science of gardening - its gardens and gardeners famous world-wide. "Gardening on the Edge continues this tradition": it describes a host of plants introduced since the mid-twentieth century - all particularly suited to western seaboard gardens and mild, temperate climates.