A Fenland Garden: Creating a haven for people, plants & wildlife

Francis and Maisie Pryor transformed a barren field into a haven for plants, people, and wildlife in a remote corner of the Lincolnshire fens, drawing inspiration from different elements of the English gardening tradition and creating a garden that was ambitious in scope but human in scale. A Fenland Garden is a story of bringing something beautiful into being, embedding a garden in its local landscape, and reclaiming nature's ground.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The story of Francis Pryor's creation of a haven for people, plants, and wildlife in a remote corner of the Lincolnshire fens is a remarkable tale of transformation. In 1992, Francis and Maisie Pryor acquired a large field in a remote corner of the fens, which had been exhausted by half a century of intensive cultivation. Despite the challenges, Francis and Maisie set out to create a garden that was ambitious in scope but human in scale, drawing inspiration from different elements of the English gardening tradition. A Fenland Garden is a testament to the empirical wisdom of a writer with a special relationship with landscape and the soil, and it is shot through with nuggets of fenland lore, walks in the woods with the dogs Pen and Baldwin, and vignettes of the plantsman's trials and tribulations. Above all, it is the story of bringing something beautiful into being, of embedding a garden in its local landscape, and reclaiming for nature a small patch of English ground.

Weight: 278g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801101615