An English vicarage garden conjures up a vision of a blessed plot where it is always summer afternoon: newly mown lawns, old trees and flowering shrubs, herbaceous borders, a church spire, all bathed in a still, warm haze. This delightful book captures that vision, and simultaneously celebrates some of the outstanding English gardeners of the last two centuries. Here too are their successors: today's clergymen, among them some superb plantsmen whose garden gates are open to the public.