Garden People: The Photographs of Valerie Finnis
by Ursula Buchan with Anna Pavord and Brent Elliott
Thames & Hudson 2007
I simply loved this book! Although not a recent release--it was published in 2007--it's a photographic history of a class of gardeners who pre-date the "age of the garden designer." These were real plantsmen, as both men and women were referred to in those days, whose knowledge of horticulture was only complemented by their eccentricities.
