For garden-minded people in an urban or suburban neighbourhood, Ben Dark's The Grove will ring bells.
Subtitled A Nature, it tells the often surprising stories that cling to a score of everyday plants – magnolias, buddleias, camellias, privet, tulips, hollyhocks, wisteria. These trees, shrubs, climbers, perennials and bulbs are known even to the least horticulturally-minded bod.
