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Tom Petherick

Tom Petherick is an acclaimed author and broadcaster and led the gardening team that undertook the stunning restoration of the lost Gardens of Heligan. He took responsibility for the productive gardens at Heligan 1993-6 before becoming a commercial, organic market gardener and consultant. He was lured back to Heligan to help the horticultural team and is now through his journalism and book writing helping to promote the garden.

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Author	Title	Format	Date	Price	ISBN
Tom Petherick	The Kitchen Gardens at Heligan	Hardback	09/03/2006	£20.00	9780297844051
Tom Petherick	Heligan: A Portrait of the Lost Gardens	Hardback	11/03/2004	£20.00	9780297843443

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Heligan: A Portrait of the Lost Gardens

'What immediately makes this book different from others which have gone before is the author's own family connection with the property... He writes about the gardens with the intimate and impassioned experience of someone who has tilled its soil, nurtured its young plants and wielded a saw to rejuvenate the old ones... This beautiful book... bewitching pictures capture the essence of a garden brought back to pulsating life. You can almost smell the sweet carrots plucked from the loose ground...

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