Pleasure Principles: An Almanac from the Garden

Part garden almanac, part field guide, part art book, Richard Christiansen's Pleasure Principles is a year spent paying close attention to the landscape of Flamingo Estate, his Los Angeles hillside garden, and what it has to teach. Moving month by month through the seasons, the book gathers planting and harvesting guides, seasonal recipes, herbal remedies, botanical history, mythology, and personal essays across more than 400 pages. Photographs by Hugh Davison, recipes by chef Sandy Ho, twenty-eight original oil paintings by John Regan. Weighty, beautiful, and deeply useful in the way a real almanac should be.

Pre-order your copy through Wentworth and pick it up at our Pleasure Principles book signing with Richard Christiansen on October 16th. Orders that need to be shipped will go out after October 16th.

Author: Richard Christiansen
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Published: 2026