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Mungo Park’s Trunk.Nola Easdale. The interesting and complex history of colonial surveyor Robert Park who arrived at Port Nicholson (Wellington) in 1839. He fathered three families and this is their history, and that of their children. It also solves the mystery of how a trunk that once belonged to the explorer of West Africa, Mungo Park, ended up in the possession of a Maori family in Petone. Te Waihora Press, Christchurch, 2009. ISBN 9780908714100 Softback. 280 pages.

with line drawings

Includes the cottage garden

ISBN 9780330309264 & 9780330292757

The well known owner of Great Dixter here distills all he has learnt in a lifetime study of the gardener’s main materials—perennial plants

This edition has some New Zealand content

The significance of individual plants to certain beliefs is revealed and important gardens of each religion are described in detail

The work also outlines the environmental and human influences on soils and explores the relationship between the soil and landscape

Anna Marie Roos

A detailed account of the little known non flowering plants of the New Zealand forest

Britain and France

and illuminate the recovery

Tells the story of Lloyd’s exotic garden at Great Dixter which has delighted many