Anna Pavord – Landskipping

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Anna Pavord is the author of many highly cherished gardening books and has written extensively for titles including The Observer, Country Living, Elle and latterly as gardening correspondent of The Independent. She is associate editor of Gardens Illustrated, the garden designer’s title of choice.Anna Pavord – Landskipping cover

Anna sees gardening as a soul-healing activity. “In your garden you can take a stand against the prevailing trashy mood of the time…if the mood is now instant, disposable, then in our gardens we should be planting slow, steady, sustaining things.”

In a similar vein, Anna’s latest book, Landskipping, is about place and how the topography, plant life and landscape define us as both as individuals and as a people. Rather than being force- fed what the marketing people want us to think, we should approach the countryside on our own terms and in our own time, finding out what we ourselves want to know before reaching any conclusions