Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy)

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Journal of the Scottish Rock Garden Club 19980601 Merry Hall, first published in 1951 and reissued this year by the redoubtable Timber Press, is the very model of gardening insouciance. A surprising amount of his humor comes at the expense of the characters who populate the pages, all based on real-life originals. First in a trilogy, "Merry Hall" is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England.

Indeed, by the time these words are published, I may already have been discovered floating under a clump of James Brydon nymphaeas, a variety of water-lily which is described in the catalogues as a deep old rose pink that somrtimes seems flushed with crimson.

Lol…poor pianist too, he has my sympathy, we had a loft conversion and we take our lives in our hands every time we stand up straight under a window, I swear I have repetitive brain injury syndrome! I’m delighted to see this review as I adore all of his books as they are so well written and they always make me laugh.

The endpapers in your book are stunning, and I’ve looked at the covers for his other books before and they are beautiful too. The ghost of Stebbing is everywhere – and Nichols takes a quite violent dislike to everything about him.Nichols's final trilogy is referred to as "The Sudbrook Trilogy" (1963–1969) and concerns his late 18th-century attached cottage at Ham, (near Richmond), Surrey. What Beverley objected to was the terrible way she tortured her flowers and her total lack of any aesthetic sense.