The opening lines of his essay, Of Gardens, first published in 1625, will be familiar to many listeners:

Van Allsburg's books, starting with "The Garden of Abdul Gasazi," published in 1979, and "Jumanji," which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, instead offer wonder with an edge to today's eerily savvy and media-smart children.

In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize.

The core of these photographs was first seen by Americans in 1893 in a modest two-part article that Platt wrote for Harper's Magazine and the next year in a slightly expanded book version called "Italian Gardens," published by Harper & Brothers.

Frutig's daughter, Suzy Bales, has published 13 books about gardening, including "The Garden in Winter" published in 2007.

We first came to Castle Drogo several years ago, mainly to visit its celebrated gardens, awarded two stars - the highest rating - in our trusted "Good Gardens Guide," published by Vermilion, an imprint of Ebury Press.

The two new books are "Trees and Shrubs" and "Perennials and Annuals," Volumes I and II, respectively, of "The Botanical Garden," just published by Firefly Books for $75 each.

"A Garden of Songs," published by the school, includes hymns, love ballads and party tunes like "Chew Tobacco" and "Big Fat Dog."

She is a central figure in the collection of poetry, "Some Other Garden", by Jane Urquhart, first published as: "I am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Place".

But it was in her first book, "In and Out of the Garden" published in 1981 by Workman Publishing, where her incredibly detailed and lyrical style made a big impact.