Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate

(, New edition)

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The Prince of Wales has spent many years turning his estate into a model of environmentally benign farming and gardening. He records the successes, failiures and lessons to be shared not only by gardeners and farmers, but by everyone interested in the countryside at large. The Prince of Wales writes with infectious enthusiasm and passion, providing a fascinating introduction and conclusion, while Charles Glover, the environment editor of the Daily Telegraph sketches in the backcloth.

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Charles Clover is the Environment Editor of the Daily Telegraph. He has been three times winner of the national journalist category of British Environment and Media awards. His father was a conventional farmer and his mother was an early member of the Soil Association, the organic farming body. He is married with two sons and lives in Essex.

The Prince of Wales describes how he spent eleven years turning his Cotswold estate into a model of environmentally benign farming and gardening. He also describes how his gardens have been conceived, developed and planted.