Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd was already a legend in his lifetime, and this intimate biography adds vivid colour as provocative and challenging as the eye-widening combinations in Christopher’s borders. This portrait is so alive, so evocative of his vitality, ‘naughtiness’ and untold generosity, that it hurts to be reminded of what we have lost. – Beth Chatto
[Christopher Lloyd’s] reputation as the finest plantsman of the 20th century is underscored in Anderton’s affectionate biography of a shy, irascible man who applied a modern sensibility and a personal genius to gardening – Iain Finlayson * The Times *
An unputdownable autobiography – Victoria Summerley * Independent *
A rollicking and compulsive read. Anderton’s writing is lithe and perky, especially when it comes to the Lloyd family foibles and dysfunctions. His words dance around these with feline agility. * thinkinggardens.co.uk *
Stephen Anderton is a clever and witty writer and well known for his lively take on gardening – Mary Keen * Daily Telegraph *
Stephen Anderton was invited by Christopher Lloyd to be his biographer, having been his friend for 20 years and being himself a distinguished gardening writer – Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *
It may sound odd to say that a garden can move to tears, like music, like literature, but Great Dixter had that power – David Sexton * Evening Standard *
Incisive… he is spot-on about Christopher: a maelstrom of talent and inhibition, conservatism and radicalism, rudeness and affection – George Plumptre * Mail on Sunday *
I thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Anderton’s biography… Few figures loomed larger in the world of 20th-Century gardening than ‘Christo’, and Mr Anderton has done an admirable job in discovering and revealing what made him the remarkable man he was… Anderton’s style is so effortlessly easy and his subject such a fascination that I read the biography at one sitting – Colin Hambridge * Birmingham Post *
A fascinating insight into the life of one of our greatest gardeners who was as colourful as his garden * Theenduringgardener.com *

Stephen Anderton, who knew Christopher Lloyd well for over twenty years, is a gardening writer whose books include Rejuvenating a Garden, Urban Sanctuaries and Discovering Welsh Gardens. He is gardening correspondent of The Times and formerly National Gardens Manager for English Heritage. Stephen Anderton has had access for the first time to Christo’s chaotic, 100-year archive of papers relating to the house, garden and family.

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