Some Shropshire Gardens
Worth buying if: You enjoy Barbara Palmer's garden-writer voice and local Shropshire place detail.
Skip it if: You want exhaustive botanical monographs rather than short garden descriptions.
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Summary
Barbara Palmer's Some Shropshire Gardens documents 25–30 local gardens—private plots, churchyards, and estate grounds—with photographs, plant lists, and short historical notes across 128 pages.
Why this book now
Revisit Palmer's 1990 celebration of Shropshire gardening as interest in regional horticulture and heritage landscapes resurges.
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Good fit if you want...
- You enjoy Barbara Palmer's garden-writer voice and local Shropshire place detail.
- You collect compact pictorial guides to English county gardens and plant lists.
- If you enjoy unreliable narrators, the chapters are concise but emotionally rich.
- You want exhaustive botanical monographs rather than short garden descriptions.
- You seek contemporary garden trends post-1990 or up-to-date planting advice.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780903802451
Worth buying if: You enjoy Barbara Palmer's garden-writer voice and local Shropshire place detail.
Skip it if: You want exhaustive botanical monographs rather than short garden descriptions.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Quick Easy to move through
At 128 pages with concise entries and photos, it suits single-session browsing or dipping into one garden at a time during a weekend planning session.
What stands out here
This Shropshire Books edition emphasizes Palmer's photographs and place-specific notes—useful as a regional snapshot rather than a technical manual.
Best way to approach it
Read slowly, garden-by-garden: savor the photographs, crosscheck plant names with current sources, and mark sites to visit in Shropshire.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780903802451
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