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By Ursula Buchan 11/29/04 12:00am

Private Garden, Central London-39 Acres (With Palace)

The Garden at Buckingham Palace: An Illustrated History, by Jane Brown, with photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes. Royal Collection Publications, 224 pages, £30.

Americans all know Buckingham Palace in London. Whether they’ve stood with their camera lenses poking through the railings to capture the daily ritual of the changing of the guard, or know Read More

By Ursula Buchan 5/28/01 12:00am

A Polymath in the Garden Contemplates Codependency

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World , by Michael Pollan. Random House, 271 pages, $24.95.

Michael Pollan is that rare being, a contemporary American garden essayist who is well-known and well-liked in Britain. Only Allen Lacy and Eric Grissell have come anywhere close in impressing us insular Old Worlders. So popular Read More