The entertaining and practical pieces which make up "Better Against a Wall" are selected from the best of Ursula Buchan's journalism from the past fifteen years and demonstrate her highly individual take on gardening and modern gardeners. Politics, practicalities and personalities of the gardening world all find a place in this collection, alongside flowers, garden design, ecological friends and foes. She shivers at the thought of grass snakes, warms to the soft perfection of Shirley Poppies, hunts for plants in Nepal, fails to master machinery, pulls a fast one with climbers and somehow manages to give seaweed a good press.
- ISBN10 0719566584
- ISBN13 9780719566585
- Publish Date 13 October 2003
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Edition signed ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Language English