Nowadays there's the sense that anyone can aspire to a garden, even if it's only a window box or a pot of basil in the kitchen. At the beginning of the 18th century this was a new phenomenon. Gradually city dwellers began to realise that it wasn't just their country cousins who could have a patch of green to call their own.
Jenny Uglow shows Katy Hickman how this period is reflected in her own garden.
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow, Chatto and Windus, ISBN 0 701 169281 |
