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Review: The Company of Trees by Thomas Pakenham

As a writer trees worry me. Faced with an herbaceous border, I’m in my element but charged with talking about . . .

Don’t judge a book . . . Despite being a paid-up member of the ‘don’t judge a book by its . . .

So often, gardening books slot neatly into a pigeonhole. There are the coffee table tomes, low on content but packed . . .

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told a garden is planted for year-round colour. In truth, . . .

This was always going to be a book that appealed, based as it is on my two great loves: literature . . .