Secret Gardeners (updated edition)

';TheSecret Gardeners is a WONDERFUL book. Just beautiful. It will live, page open, on my coffee table.' Prue Leith (one of theSecret Gardeners)The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and musicians.Itincludes composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh;entrepreneur Richard Branson; architect Anish Kapoor; actors Jeremy Irons,Rupert Everett, Griff Rhys Jonesand Terry Gilliam; chef Prue Leith; musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Nick Masonand Sting; playwrightJulian Fellowes; film director Paul Weiland; and designers Kirstie Allsopp and Cath Kidston.Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners' inspiration and passion are stunningly-reproduced photographs revealing the beautiful gardens that the public rarely see.Amongst these gardeners you'll find the plantaholics, the scene-changers, the view makers, the weeders, the hot-colour fanatics and those who use their garden to retreat from public life.This new edition introduces the gardens of Jeremy Clarkson, Catherine FitzGerald & Dominic West, Prue Leith and the book's photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas.