In 2022 Clare Foster, Garden Editor at House & Garden magazine and photographer, Andrew Montgomery, self-published their first book, Winter Gardens. Despite the challenges of conceiving of, researching, writing, photographing, editing, designing, distributing and promoting the book themselves they have now published the fruit of their second collaboration, Pastoral Gardens.

This beautifully designed 480 page tome looks at a range of gardens that put nature and wildlife at their heart and has been a labour of love for them both. Focussed on 20 gardens and natural environments both designed and nurtured, rural and urban, in the UK and overseas, the book features work by renowned designers Tom Stuart-Smith, Sarah Price, Nigel Dunnett, Luciano Giubbilei and Julian and Isabel Bannerman as well as places gardened by notable people such as Jasper Conran, Arthur Parkinson and Umberto Pasti. Two gardens designed by Dan are featured; Little Dartmouth Farm on the south west coast of England and Robin Hill in Connecticut, USA.