The Yorkshire Gardens Trust, the charity that promotes and protects Yorkshire's gardens, parks and landscapes is delighted to announce the publication of With abundance and variety: Yorkshire Gardens and Gardeners across Five Centuries.

Edited by Susan Kellerman, the book features new research focusing on Yorkshire’s gardens and parks, and their creators and custodians, exemplifying the diversity of Britain’s largest historical county.

• Martin Wainwright reveals the history of the garden and famed delphinium collection at The Heath, in Leeds.
• Sally O’HalloranandJan Woudstrainvestigate the ornamental plant collection of seventeenth-century gardener Sir John Reresby at Thrybergh, South Yorkshire.
• George Sheerane lucidates on the park at Kirkleatham, in the northernmost tip of
  the region.
• Patrick Eyres explores the involvement of architect James Gibbs in the garden
  buildings of Wentworth Castle.
• Susan Kellerman enlightens on eighteenth-century bath houses found in Yorkshire’s
  parks and gardens.
• Karen Lynch examines the designed landscape at Plumpton Rocks.
• Linda Polley traces the history of the Marton estate (now Stewart Park, Middlesbrough).
• Fiona Stirling focuses on the design and development of Burngreave and Crookes
  cemeteries in Sheffield.

For more information and ordering details please download the flyer below.

Flyer for Yorkshire Gardens and Gardeners across Five Centuries