Tim Richardson, author of Sweets: The History of Temptation, is the world’s first international confectionery historian. He also writes about gardens, landscape and theatre, and contributes to the Daily Telegraph, Country Life, The Idler, House & Garden, Garden Design Journal and Wallpaper. He lives in North London.
In 2012 Tim founded The Chelsea Fringe (chelseafringe.com) to celebrate the quirkier horticulture that didn’t quite make the Chelsea Flower Show. It takes place each year during the fortnight around the Chelsea Flower Show.
He wrote and performed comedy at Oxford University in the 1980s in a revue group called The Seven Raymonds with Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Michael Cosgrave.
Books in order of publication:
The garden book – 2000
Sweets: A History of Candy – 2002
The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden (2007)
Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape (2008)
Great Gardens of America – 2009
The New English Garden – 2013
Oxford College Gardens (2018)
Sissinghurst: The Dream Garden – 2020
The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia – 2024
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