The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace

By: Nick Stewart Smith

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Synopsis: “A fascinating and intimate portrait of a garden over time … Reading is like being given a rusty key to a beautiful secret garden.” - Ben Dark, Author of The GroveExplore the magical green world of Lambeth Palace Garden, a hidden jewel of London for more than 1,000 years. In this book, Head Gardener Nick Stewart Smith takes the reader on a series of rambles through the changing seasons, introducing some extraordinary trees and plants along the way. Revealing some of the untold stories of the ten-acre secret garden, this is a unique insight into a special place. Nick explains how nature is at the heart of everything here, the gardening approach allowing the green world inside the high stone walls to be a haven for many kinds of wildlife, all flourishing right in the midst of one of the world’s busiest cities.