A Lifetime of Seasons

Critics Review

• He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times

  GUARDIAN

• Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening

  THE TIMES

• Christopher Lloyd taught us that we don’t necessarily have to do things very differently – just better, and with all our heart

  SPECTATOR

• It is THE gardening classic, as essential to every gardener as a sharp pair of secateurs or a good spade

  Carol Klein

• A brilliant gardener and a brilliant writer

  OBSERVER

• This is the man at his best: frank, provoking, erudite and, of course, very funny

  OBSERVER

• He was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known

  Alan Titchmarsh

• Until the last few years of his life, Christo could often be found in his kitchen, once he had taken an early-morning walk round the garden to find inspiration for an article, and then typed it in his deceptively conversational style on his laptop. Seasons were observed, as they would have been in his mother’s day. Christo, we miss you. Your distinctive voice which still echoes through my head whenever I open any of your books. The flame from the log fires may have died down, but the sparks you ignited in us will spread far and wide, long down the ages

  Beth Chatto

• British horticulture is blessed with many inspired plantsmen and elegant writers, but rarely do those qualities combine as seamlessly as in Christopher Lloyd

  INDEPENDENT