Contemporary Gardens features an astonishing 300 gardens around the world, each accompanied by knowledgeable detailed descriptions of both public and private gardens like the exotic reinvention of the Old Rose Garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex and Sarah Price’s community garden. The Exchange in Erith, in North Kensington, The Grass Gardens at the Horniman, High Line, Changi Airport Garden, dreamy hillside garden in Morocco by Umberto Pasti, African Ancestors Memorial Garden, Chihuly Garden & Glass, Gardens by the Bay, Brook Gardens, Jardins d’Etretat, The Opera Park, Anna Wintour’s elegant garden in upstate New York by Miranda Brooks and Prairie landscape around the US Embassy giving much needed horticultural escapism. Garden designers featured include Marian Boswell, Sam Cox, Erik Dhont, Isabel Druprat, Luciano Giubbilei, Olin, Piet Oudolf, Hilderbrand, Amalia Robredo, and Tom Stuart-Smith.

Beautifully designed and illustrated, The Contemporary Garden displays each garden with insightful description and large format photographs. Critical works by Fiona Brockhoff, Dan Pearson, Sarah Price and Bernard Trainer are featured alongside projects by rising stars and owner-makers.

This books reveals a striking range of contemporary garden styles, naturalistic, community, wild, urban, botanical, dry, topiary, minimalist, edible, flower, and more,  proving how our evolving stylistic and horticultural aesthetic fosters an increasingly strong connection with the natural world.

This book acts an inspirational resource with authoritative references, will delight both professionals, recreational and armchair gardeners of all ages.

The Contemporary Garden by Phaidon Editors with an introduction by Annie Guilfoyle and texts by Sorrel Everton, Tovah Martin, et al Phaidon £44.95,  336 pages