Katharine S. White

Katharine S. White reviews the “ever-spreading flood” of England’s books about gardens and horticulture, including a sixteenth-century manual of herbs and flowers and “Vita Sackville-West’s Garden Book.”

Katharine S. White reviews a glut of garden books and how their pictures and illustrations shape our modern relationships with land.

Katharine S. White pays tribute to the English gardener Gertrude Jekyll, “the beautifier of England,” while seed shopping for the autumn season.

Katharine S. White on the high style of mid-century seed catalogues, from their hints of a gardener’s sass to rhapsodic descriptions of roses.