Imagine having an excellent local library

Lucky for me I don't have to imagine.

Amazingly the county library, based in my home town, has yards (maybe that should be meters?) of garden design and horticultural books.

Over the seasonal holiday I trudged home with 12 heavy hardback volumes bursting with information and images to inspire me. This week yet more new books graced the shelves, how could I resist? I couldn't! A couple of samples of current reading are:

The Garden Design Sourcebook

Hardscape

Silvia Crowe - Garden Design

Found this Dame Sylvia Crowe book lurking in the annals of the town library under 'books no-one reads anymore'.

Took them 10 days to get it from storage. Good job really as the only copy on Amazon is retailing for about £3.5m... no I am not kidding!

Praise to the British library system.