Gardens of the National Trust Hardcover – November 1, 2011

invaluable guide to the countless NT holdings, better for planning than traveling, its a mighty tome!

Prompt shipping, good packaging, and far better than advertised.

The descriptive detail in the book is good. Sadly, because of the many gardens listed, there is, in most cases, only a single photo to illustrate the garden; that's why the 4 stars instead of 5. Larger more detailed photos would be a great improvement.

This book arrived in very good condition as described. It is a nice coffee table book, and I also use it for a great garden reference book. The photos are fantastic and I have gleaned many garden ideas from it.

beautiful and less known gardens

Beautiful photographs and written detail of so many gardens big and small in England.

A lovely book for anyone who marvels at English gardens.

This is a good book to read before your trip & decide where to go, much too big to travel with. Well written, informative, but could use a few more photos-these are gardens after all.

Twice useless.Useless as a guidebook: no detailed addresses and directions, no opening times, no information when the best to visit.No maps - all entries according to alphabetical order so no clue which gardesns are in close proximty to each other.Useless as a coffe table book: one page per garden with one small picture; very rarly one page picture.But it provides information on soil pH and yearly precipitation.

lots of information in the text and great photos - really nice book

Gorgeous book with great pictures and interesting text. Makes me want to visit every National Trust garden!

I love this book but …..this has a number of the first pages bent up a bit like it’s been wet. And the inside back cover corner is damaged.The worst part is the broken interior cover page

Man kann davon ausgehen, daß der National Trust die schönsten und sehenswertesten Gärten verwaltet.Ich habe mir das Buch gekauft, um Gartenbesichtigungen in Großbritannien zu planen; ich erhoffte mir genauere Angaben zu den einzelnen Gärten, als im Internet zur Verfügung stehen.Auch anhand der Farbbilder wollte ich mir ein ungefähres Bild von den Gärten machen.Aber: Das Buch ist eine große Enttäuschung !Die Bilder sind absolut nichtssagend, teilweise sogar abschreckend.Die Gartenbeschreibung läßt bei dem Leser kein Bild des Gartens im Kopf entstehen; alles wird nur lang, aber oberflächlich beschrieben.Die einzigen Angaben, die für den Besuch brauchbar sind, wurden in kleinster Schrift in die obere Ecke verbannt: Adresse, Meereshöhe und Angaben zu Beschaffenheit des Gartenbodens.Gott sei Dank, war das Buch stark im Preis reduziert ( 12 GBP), da kann man schon mal danebengreifen, der volle Preis (ehemals rund 36 GBP) ist in keinster Weise gerechtfertigt.