Activities

Book Publishing

Recently-published titles include Creative Connections – Aspects of the Garden Design Process (Workshops on Garden Design series) by Barbara Hunt and Elizabeth Whateley, More Fluent French by Christopher Kirk-Greene, and From Peat Bog to Conifer Forest – An Oral History of Whitelee, its Community and Landscape by Ruth Tittensor.

One title is reprinted frequently with amendments: An Introduction to General Knowledge by Stanley Prince (up to date to the end of 2008 – note new green cover). Please note also that Specification Writing for Garden Design by John Heather (last update, end of 2008) is now out of print due to the retirement of the Author; we can still provide a CD of the 2008 edition’s clauses to purchasers of earlier editions, until arrangements for a new edition are finalized, but cannot sell copies to new buyers.

New titles in production in the autumn and winter of 2009/10 are The Ethics and Aesthetics of Landscape (Monographs on Landscape and Design series) by David Jacques, Garden and Landscape (Workshops on Garden design series) by the late Anthony du Gard Pasley, Planting and Design for Seaside and Shelter (Workshops on Garden Design series) by Deborah Jolley, An Author and a Gardener – the Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston (Monographs on Landscape etc. series) by Allan Ruff, Conceptualist Landscapes (Workshops on Garden Design series) by Paul Cooper, The Basics of Planting Design (Workshops on Garden Design series) by Lucy Huntington, Scabby Horses and Unrung Swine – the Regulation of Livestock in the Early Modern Period (Rural History series) by John Kruse.

Distribution for other publishers

Distribution is also carried out for Oxygraphics Ltd, notably David Walker’s Energy, Plants and Man and his CD Like Clockwork (see www.oxygraphics.co.uk) and for Stipes Publishing’s books from the USA. Please note that we no longer distribute Arabic dictionaries or Middle Eastern titles.

How to Order

This is a small, specialized, independent company and is therefore a hostage to the supermarket-style attitudes of the large bookselling chains. A limited selection of our books is stocked by more knowledgeable booksellers, but most prefer to special-order through the wholesalers Gardners of Eastbourne and Bertram Trading of Norwich, which have accounts with us; this includes Amazon whom we do not supply direct. Therefore, to speed up the fulfilment of orders, it is better to contact us by e-mail or telephone, and to give credit/debit card details verbally (many people still feel safer paying in this way, and actually it is not economic for us to operate a payment system through this website at the moment): e-mail contact is info@packardpublishing.co.uk or phone and fax (+44) (0)1243 537977.

Events

We continue to attend Garden Design conferences and have recently exhibited at the Society of Garden Designers’ autumn seminar held at Imperial College, London, on Saturday, 3 October 2009; in 2010 we’ll be at the Society’s spring conference on 17 April, and later in the autumn on 9 October; also at the Garden & Landscape Designers Association’s conference in Dublin on Saturday, 6 February 2010.

In the interim, we will show garden-design books at the design colleges in the UK throughout the academic year, 2009 to 2010, and attend specialist applied ecology meetings and seminars.