Hugh Johnson In The Garden: The Best Garden Diary of Our Time

Hugh Johnson is an internationally renowned writer and, in 2007, was awarded the OBE for services to Wine and Horticulture. His garden writings are well known through the appearance of his monthly column (Trad's Diary) that appeared first in RHS's The Garden and then in Garden's Illustrated magazine. Will appeal to garden lovers worldwide for its sometimes whimsical charm in addition to the

Tradescant's Diary, a column of garden jottings, first appeared in the RHS magazine, The Garden, in June 1975. Hugh Johnson was its author (in addition to his being Editorial Director of the magazine) and it became a monthly fixture for the RHS's committed gardeners. Hugh's writings are filled with an eclectic mixture of topical, whimsical and humorous anecdotes and are organised to follow a gardener's monthly calendar. Under the name Tradescant's Diary, a name taken from John Tradescant, gardener to Lord Cecil at Hatfield House and to King James I, who was one of the first men to introduce plants from foreign countries to his own garden, Hugh's writings appeared in The Garden from 1975-2006, in Gardens Illustrated in 2007, and in 2008 still appear as monthly blogs through his own website (www.tradsdiary.com).