Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens

What greater delight than to tour the world's best new gardens from the comfort of home? For those of us without the time or means to wander the globe, but who love gardens, here's the ticket to seeing what creative plants people have been doing from Morocco to Australia and from England to Japan. Superb photos and delightfully well-written. Perfect gift for that gardening friend!

Wonderful book! It is an inspiration to travel the world and see the contemporary gardens the author writes about. Not only is it about the gardens of the world but it’s about the plants and design that make them special. Beautifully written and photographed, this is also about the people who make them. This is a five-star book that I will read again and again.

Exactly what I expected

Through his travels, Chris Woods introduces readers to rich botanical centers and outposts and to the richness of the people in them. He also presents gardens that may be more familiar to some but though a new lens. I had imagined that I might not get to the vast offering of exceptional gardens in Australia and New Zealand, but after reading the book, I need to find a way. If you appreciate the exposure of travel and the wonder of gardens and design, and understand the wonder of getting lost in what you don’t know and haven't yet experienced, here’s your book.

Love, love this book! The text is descriptive - like what would be read in a great novel. As I read and view the wonderful pics, I can imagine myself seeing each garden. Thus is not a coffee table book meant to just look good. It is for lovers of gardens who don't have the chance to travel to all these places!

I love this book - obsessed with beautiful gardens and this book is filled with some truly inspiring art.

The book was not packaged properly and came damaged. The content is very good.

The aptly named Gardenlust is a big, gorgeous book of incredible gardens, with a twist – each garden is less than 20 years old. Christopher Woods, former director of Chanticleer Garden, takes us around the world looking at 50 new gardens that he feels offer up possibilities for what botanical design can be in the 21st century. The gardens are both public and private, and include everything from a small residential garden in Amsterdam, to an urban forest in Tokyo. It’s a personal, passionate, and often humorous journey encompassing many cultures and geography – a formal garden of wild plants on the Australian coast, a fantastical flower garden in Dubai, a garden devoted to salvias and hummingbirds in Argentina, among many other delights. Woods celebrates the sheer exuberance of plants and the effect well designed parks and gardens have on our own well-being. As he says, we are not separate from nature, we are it, “and we are designed to be outside.” This book is a paean to our desire, lust even, to create and explore beautiful places in the world.

Gardenlust. Great title for a book that has me drooling over the gorgeous photos of twenty first century wonders: Gardens that have been created in the past twenty years with designers and creators who still tend to be involved and more than happy to share facts, figures and information about every aspect of their beloved projects.Christopher Woods takes us on a horticultural journey around the world through a startling and contrasting array of vistas and environs. He has a knowledgeable and humorous approach to his writing with an eye for detail and an ear for a good anecdote which all make for a very entertaining read.It looks good on my coffee table but it's not just for show. I'll be dipping into it time and time again for inspiration and to marvel at the passion and innovation that have gone into these fifty fabulous gardens.

Made a fantastic gift for my green fingered friends.

The book will help me with the garden design of the gardens I'm doing.

Bought this because of a garden I visited on a recent trip to New Zealand.

Beautiful book. Loads of lovely photos and plenty of back story for each featured garden.