Sitting in the Shade: A decade of my garden diary

A charming, eclectic, beautifully written diary, focusing on gardening and the natural world


Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh

For many years Hugh Johnson has written a garden diary (initially as the editorial column of the RHS Journal and, since 2008, as a blog). Free to turn his attention to whatever is happening in the natural world at that time, or simply something that piques his interest, his subjects are as diverse as London's trees, the first crocus of spring, the joys of a greenhouse and w...