... a delightful collection of letters ... offers a unique insight into their successes and failures. Candid, amusing, revealing and informative Daily Telegraph My favourite read of the year is this entertaining correspondence between our two greatest living gardeners Sunday Telegraph Magazine What links and distinguishes (in both senses) these two writers is that they never pass on a received opinion about a plant or gardening practice or theory. Everything they say is rooted firmly in observation and experience so their thoughts and opinions carry weight and value Hardy Plant It is this book, I suspect, that many gardeners would most like to find at the ends of their beds when they wake up on Christmas morning Independent on Sunday