A Gardener's Labyrinth

"Tessa Traeger is a photographer I admire. She comes to gardening from another discipline, still life photography. She did a lot of work for Vogue and still does. She looked at gardens with a new eye – an eye for detail. She has an ability to see that and to record it. She is a good portrait photographer, which not many garden photographers are. Yes, there are. The book is full of them. For this book, she spent two years visiting a whole selection of gardens based on the people behind them. She photographed people like Miriam Rothschild, Lady Salisbury and Penelope Hobhouse . These were some of the best known gardeners of that time, around the beginning of 2000, which was a great time for gardening. Several people in this book have died since then, such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, so this was an historical moment."