I bought this book earlier in the year at my local library book sale. As you can imagine I already have quite a few gardening and cookery books but this is the only one which spans both interests.

Sadly Christopher Lloyd died fairly recently and I didn’t get around to visiting his beautiful gardens at Great Dixter although I had planned to for years.

Christopher wrote a gardening column for The Guardian for years and they were always very enjoyable but I hadn’t realised that he was also a keen cook, which was a bit daft of me really as there’s no point in growing lovely fruit and veg if you don’t eat it.

The blurb says: Christopher Lloyd takes us from plant to plate, recommending the best varieties to grow, telling us where to grow and how to plant…. he also passes on over a hundred of his favourite recipes.

He tells lots of stories too, which are often quite funny. There are plenty of lovely photographs of plants but none of the cooked recipes. So, no food porn to gawp at but it’s still a lovely book to browse through.