Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden

"A lovely book for green-thumbed readers to read in the winter as they sit by the fireplace and await spring."—Publisher's Weekly

In Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer columns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden. Traveling between his city-bound plot in South London and twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset, he celebrates the beautiful skeletons of the winter garden, the joyous passage into spring, the heady smell of summer’s bu...