Gardens of japan

Enthusiasm bubbles off the pages of Helena Attlee's authoritative prose... This book cannot be bettered as an introduction to the subject for visitors - a ravishingly beautiful and inspirational read that makes you want to jump onto the next plane to Tokyo.
Charles Quest-Ritson, Gardens Illustrated

Helena Attlee, a fine explainer of foreign gardens' history and meaning... studies 28 of   the most famous sites... It will be invaluable to foreign visitors.
Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times

Italy’s private Gardens

Attlee has known Italy all her adult life and her fluent Italian has allowed her to interview the owners for their personal stories... Plant names are sensibly thin on the ground in these garden biographies, but she quotes liberally and pithily from her gardener hosts… Stephen Anderton, The Times

Attlee has a great gift for revealing the spirit of a place... She writes elegantly and with a nice awareness of the chasms that sometimes have to be bridged between the working patterns of the past and the more demanding requirements of new owners. Anna Pavord, World of Interiors   

Italian Gardens

Helena Attlee’s main problem would have been how to synthesise all this material, and order it in some way to make it both informative and comprehensible to the general reader. In this she triumphantly succeeds. Roy Strong, Country Life

The last convincing attempt at an accessible general history was Georgina Masson's Italian Gardens, published 45 years ago. This new book of the same name is a worthy successor. Tim Richardson, Daily Telegraph

Great Gardens of Britain

Attlee's text is lively, accessible and informative...

Tim Richardson, Daily Telegraph

Gardens of Wales

…gardens may be accompanied by as little as 600 words, but they are well chosen words, and one would not tire to read them out loud.
Caroline Palmer, Welsh Historic Gardens Trust Bulletin

Gardens of Portugal

Her Gardens of Portugal is the essential companion. ... I trust her entirely.
Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times