Russell Page was one of the great English landscape architects of this century...His book The Education of a Gardener remains, in my view, the best combined guide to planting and designing a garden ever written, with inspiration for every sort of gardener, wherever they are placed. The last chapter on his own dream garden is brilliant

Probably the most influential 20th-century book on garden design... It is the universality of its lessons that is the great strength of his book

Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his craft

Page had a great talent and a sensitivity not only to different types of flora and to different climates, but also to the architectural requirements of gardens, both large and small... Combining a painter's eye (his only formal training was in art) with a pragmatic and encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture, he produced gardens that were - are -extraordinarily lovely

Russell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits