Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees for Warm-Region Horticulture   in Cool Climate the Summer Garden or Sheltered Indoors
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  • tropica by alfred byrd graf
  • Tropica Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees
  • TROPICA
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  • A reader from Colorado
Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees for Warm-Region Horticulture in Cool Climate the Summer Garden or Sheltered Indoors
Alfred Byrd Graf
Manufacturer: Roehrs Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0911266267

Book Description

Alfred Byrd Graf is probably the most widely traveled plant explorer of the world's tropics and subtropics. Horticulturist, botanist, and professional photographer, he has roamed the earth in the spirit of Von Humboll, Darwin, and David Fairchild earlier in the 19th and 20th centuries, in search of exotic botanicals to add to the enlarging horticulture of the world. Among the honors received by the author are the award of the large Gold Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Certificate of Merit of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Distinguished Service Award of the Horticultural Society of New York, a Citation Award of the American Horticultural Society, and the Tercentenary Medalliou of the State of New Jersey. IN 1967 he was invested with the Sarah Champman Francis Medal of the Garden Club of America for outstanding literary achievement. In Pittsburgh, in 1972, Alfred Graf was elected to horticulture's hall of fame, the highest distinction given by the society of American Florists, and in 1978he was awarded the doctor of Science degree.

His most recent publications are TROPICA, Color-ama of Exotic Plants with 7000 photos incl. Plants indoors. Also Hortica (8100 photos), Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora in all Climates showing Hardiness Zones.

He is the President and founder of Roehrs Company, Book division.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars tropica by alfred byrd graf.......2007-05-07

Beautifully done book with hugh number of plants with a color photos and descriptions

5 out of 5 stars Tropica Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees.......2005-12-13

I own the 5th edition. I glanced through a few pages (after having spent hours on the Internet researching tropical plants for my personal tropical garden) and had to buy it right then and there! I did not want to chance not being able to find it again. It's the best! I can't foresee ever having to wonder what any other tropical plant looks like! I've found plants in this book that I could not identify on the web or through local nurseries. I was not able to put this book down for hours after it's purchase and continue to use it almost daily. Totally worth the $185 price! If I'd lost it on the way home from having just purchased it, I'd be right back trying to buy another!

5 out of 5 stars TROPICA.......2003-04-26

This book is the ultimate,before software,computers and Wal-Mart salespersons... .a book of this magnitude was and is still the Bible of horticulture.Alfred Graf,travels the world to bring the reader an astounding volume of plants both rare and usual,not only color photos but origins as well,which happens to be the best indicator of how a plant will thrive.I've owned this book for over twenty years,even replacing it after it was stolen.What else can I say...oh yeah,...Chrisalidocarpus Lutescens.

5 out of 5 stars Tropica no Nonsense!.......2002-03-13

I recently got the chance to look over a copy of this book , and although I didn't get a chance to read it extensively nor in depth, I got the feeling that this was and is, one book , that no plant loving individuals library, should be with out. It is with out a doubt , a must have if you can get your hands on a copy.

3 out of 5 stars A reader from Colorado.......2000-06-27

This book is execellant for pictures. For information about growing and other details there is little.
The Outdoor Garden Room: 25 Projects for Stylish Summer Living
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    The Outdoor Garden Room: 25 Projects for Stylish Summer Living
    Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell
    Manufacturer: North Light Books
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    ASIN: 1581802196

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    This gorgeous book will teach readers how to create their ideal outdoor living space for entertaining friends, relaxing, and having fun. It's packed full of imaginative ideas--everything from silver gilded pots, candleholders and sun catchers, to garden sculpture, wind chimes and sweet pea wigwams. The Outdoor Garden Room will enable any reader to turn their garden into an outdoor living space beyond compare! It includes over 25 original projects with step-by-step instructions and a list of required materials--including recycled materials for the environmentally conscious!
    Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
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    • best butterfly gardening book!
    • Excellent guide book
    • A great starter book as well as an advanced resource.
    Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
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    ASIN: 0871569752

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    This new edition of the classic handbook describes how to attract butterflies and other beneficial and beautiful insects to your garden.
    Butterfly Gardening presents everything the gardener needs to know to create intricate, small-scale ecosystems in an urban or suburban setting that can substitute for the rapidly vanishing habitats that are essential to the survival of butterflies. Contributors to this volume include Miriam Rothschild, an eminent entomologist, avid butterfly gardener, and expert in wildflower conservation, who describes the life cycle of butterflies, how and what they see, and how this relates to "gardening with butterflies." Landscape architect Mary Booth provides imaginative garden designs and easy-to-follow directions for designing and planting. Edward S. Ross, pioneer of close-up nature photography, discusses observing and photographing butterflies.
    The book also includes a "Master Plant List" of species that attract butterflies, butterfly food plants listed by geographic region, seed and plant resources, a list of gardening and conservation organizations, and a bibliography of books and periodicals about butterflies.

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Too much activist nagging, not enough focus on gardens.......2004-10-09

    This was a promising-looking book. It has a good number of very interesting butterfly pictures, attractive diagrams of bedding layouts, and photos of useful flowers. However, I was greatly disappointed by two things.

    First, the personalities of the multiple authors intrude too much in the book. Not only do we read too much of "I" this and "my" that, but the potted biographies are sometimes much too long, self-regarding, and irrelevant. Are they promoting butterflies, or themselves?

    Second, I quickly got the sense that the butterfly-gardening discussion is really a Trojan horse for environmental activism. It lectures repeatedly at the reader, when the reader feels like saying: "Stop trying to convert me! I bought the book, didn't I? I'm happy and willing to make a garden that butterflies might like, and that should be enough."

    The moralizing starts with the preface, and continues with the introduction by E. O. Wilson. Wilson wags his finger at "prideful Homo sapiens," saying that people are mostly "indifferent or repelled by the generality of insects." Apart from stating that Homo sapiens has every reason to be proud of its accomplishments, I would like to add that people have (naturally) feared insects for excellent reasons: mosquitoes bring malaria, the West Nile virus, and other diseases; pests spoil crops and contaminate food; and the bubonic plague, spread by rat fleas in Europe in the mid-1300s, wiped out one-third of the human population. So don't lecture us about how we're just mindlessly prejudiced against insects (or anything else for that matter).

    There are several books on this subject currently available. If you are looking for a book by garden-lovers, for the benefit of other garden-lovers, I would advise you to choose one of them. I would certainly recommend Attracting Birds and Butterflies by Barbara Ellis.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent resource..........2001-09-16

    BUTTERFLY GARDENING is a collection of interesting essays about butterflies. Chapters cover gardening tips, including an annotated list of plants that attract butterflies, and various other butterfly related topics such as: "What do butterflies see?"; "The struggle to survive"; "The life cycle of the large white butterfly"; and "Moths in the garden at night." If you love butterflies, you will probably enjoy this book but it won't go a long way toward helping you identify the Red Admiral you spotted on the Frikartii Aster yesterday. Another reviewer referred to this as a starter book, but I don't think of it as that at all although it does introduce a number of important topics.

    The book includes a few "designs" for butterfly gardens, but they are general, and you would do better to use the garden designs in THE AUDUBON BACKYARD BIRD WATCHER. Let's face it, where the birds are is where their dinner is and dinner for birds is often the larval stage of moths and butterflies. The plant lists in BUTTERFLY GARDENING are adequate. Certainly the best thing to plant is Buddleia..the butterfly bush. This morning I saw three Monarch butterflies on my lavendar flowered Buddleia. The bush also supports a Grandpa Otts morning glory vine which produces flowers that are a dark bluish purple which changes to a purplish magenta. The butterflies were flitting from flower to flower and the color combo was a knockout.

    This little book has much to recommend it. From BUTTERFLY GARDENING I learned the value of Parsley for larvae and that no matter how many butterfly boxes one hangs the little critters are visitors not tenants.

    5 out of 5 stars best butterfly gardening book!.......2001-08-06

    This book actually takes you past the very basic of plant lists (primarily US native plants) and arranging your garden (although it has all that too). It gets into things like a chapter on what butterflies see, their life cycles, butterfly watching tips, conservation, photography,pictures of caterpillars, etc. The photos are fantastic - not just pictures of butteflies on flowers but really close-up pictures of the wings, and butterflies in flight. They also include information on moths which is neat. This book is above and beyond the best book I've seen on butterfly gardening. For those who want to not only attract butterflies but also know what's going on and understand some of their world, this is a great book. I'd buy it all over again!!

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent guide book.......2000-09-20

    I'm an up and coming butterfly gardener. This book had a great deal of information to share not only regarding what species of flowers to plant, but also about the life cycles of the butterfly and the importance of planting your garden for the entire life cycle - from egg, to caterpillar, to butterfly Discussion focused on butterfly/larva predators and how important they are to the cycle. Tips on photography, particularly in the dark were helpful. The pictures of the butterflies and flowers were exquisite! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and the information in it will go a long way in helping me create my dream garden.

    5 out of 5 stars A great starter book as well as an advanced resource........1999-12-15

    This book gives you comprehensive advice on starting and appreciating a butterfly garden in a small, and easily digestible package. It includes sections on butterfly natural history and identification, garden design, sample garden plans, a plant guide, predators, photography and conservation. It's a great starter book for those interested in creating their own garden but also has a good appendix section for those who want to get a little deeper into the subject. This would make a great gift for someone wanting to start his or her own garden.
    Tea in the Garden: Quilts for a Summer Afternoon (That Patchwork Place)
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      Tea in the Garden: Quilts for a Summer Afternoon (That Patchwork Place)
      Cynthia Tomaszewski
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      Just like fresh-baked muffins and a calming cup of tea, these quilts are filled with homemade goodness. Bursting with blooms, each cheerful design spotlights this popular author's beautiful floral appliqué.

      · Combine easy patchwork with hand or fusible appliqué in 13 wall-hanging to lap-sized projects

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      Summer Garden Murder (A Gardening Mystery)
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars The Plot deepens.......2007-04-27


      If you are a readers who loves gardening, as well as a complex mystery and a very appealing amateur dectective you'll want to read SUMMER GARDEN MURDER. The protagonist is Louise Eldridge, PBS Garden show host and home gardner. Louise and her husband are at a neighborhood party when she is shocked to see Peter Hoffman, a murderer she caught five years ago (in the book Mulch). He has spent four years in a mental hospital in the Blue Ridge Mountains and has come back to the old neighborhood after serving his time. At the party he comes up to Louise and makes it seem as if he and Louise are going to have a meeting later on to iron out their past differences. Louise is deeply shaken by that encounter and when he later breaks into her home and threatens her. The police do not believe her story about the break in, telling her that she was the one who invited him, and that party goers confirmed her invitation, so she and her family decide to leave town for a few days, because Louise is so distraught by the encounter. Meanwhile, Hoffman's wife Phyllis, overhears a conversation where Hoffman plans to sell his arms factory and leave the country leaving her behind. While Louise and her family are gone, Peter disappears and an anonymous tip leads the police to Louise's garden where they find his body. When another sleazy friend of Hoffman's is also found buried on her property, Louise becomes the prime suspect for both murders and she might go to jail unless she finds the killer.
      Ann Ripley has written another great garden mystery full of intrigue and prime suspects. A pleasant addition to all her books is the gardening essays that are interspersed throughout. The reader is free to read these or not, but they are informative and pleasant to read. Buyers should try to read these books in chronological order, because the natural progression of Louise's friends and family dynamics, as well as the growth of Louise's career, will add knowledge and pleasure.

      5 out of 5 stars complex and refreshing amateur sleuth.......2005-07-27

      TV show host and gardener Louse Eldridge is shocked when she sees Peter Hoffman, a murderer who she apprehended five years ago. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent four years in a mental hospital in the Blue Ridge Mountains in southern Virginia. He has the audacity to show his face at his old stomping grounds and makes it seem like he and Louise are going to have a meeting to iron out their differences.

      Before that can happen, his wife Phyllis overhears a conversation where he sells his arms factory before he leaves the country. His wife is left with the house and a stipend. Soon after that meeting Peter disappears and an anonymous tip leads the police to Louise's garden where they find his body. When another corpse is found on her property, it looks like Louise might go to jail unless she finds the killer.

      Readers who love good, complex and refreshing amateur sleuth tales without any blood or gore will want to read SUMMER GARDEN MURDER. The protagonists is a plucky and independent sort not content to let others find the murderer but is determined to ferret out the person herself because it is her life that is on the line. Ann Ripley has written another exciting garden mystery that is so absorbing readers will read it in one sitting.

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      American Cutting Garden: A Primer For Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot And Winters Are Cold
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Cutting Gardens by Your Best Friend Who You Never Met
      • Good for First Timers
      • The new paperback has color pictures!
      • Wealth of wonderful information, but . . .
      • An American Cutting Garden
      American Cutting Garden: A Primer For Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot And Winters Are Cold
      Suzanne McIntire
      Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
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      NOTE: New paperback edition includes COLOR photos.

      In 'An American Cutting Garden' Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop--all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs. McIntire includes information on topics such as the length of stems one might expect from the cutting garden, how many plants are needed of any one kind, when and how to sow seed outdoors, the heat-hardiness of plants, and strategies for coping with the effects of hot summers and cold winters. This new paperback edition includes color photos.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Cutting Gardens by Your Best Friend Who You Never Met.......2006-02-12

      So many garden books so little time! Yet take time for McIntire's hands on common sense. McIntire has spent 14 years experimenting and learning. It's as if your friend had decided to help you get started. And she can write. No matter where you are gardening, McIntire's got tips to get you started and to increase your expertise if you have already begun. If you are a real novice get a copy of the American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (ISBN 8789419432) which has all the pictures of all the plants. But, if you want to learn what to plant under what conditions and how to succeed no matter how small, how shaded, how unfavorable your conditions might be, McIntire will, with writing which approaches the garden writing greats in style, lead you in the right direction. Skill is not the secret. But McIntire will provide you with the skills she has developed and the love for the process of gardening that nurtures every gardener, new or old. Best of all she will not send you out to buy 18 irises at $18.00 each. You can start with packets of seed. She follows in the footsteps of Henry Mitchel and Elenor Perenyi. Yet she provides simple access. Any latin or common name can be found in her Index of Plants. If you wonder how to coordinate various plants so that you have things in bloom over the season, there is a Sequence of Bloom for all the plants mentioned. Now the paperback has 28 color pictures (buy the A to Z). Gardening is much more than the photos in books and catalogues. We don't have Vita Sackville West's gardeners. We don't live at White Flower Farm. We have a small plot of mediocre soil and hope. Suzanne McIntire will provide you with both the knowledge and the intangible sprit to produce a cutting garden with flowers you will love and cherish. Try it. Try it. You will see!

      5 out of 5 stars Good for First Timers.......2005-12-11

      Sensibly organized, this book was a terrific guide for a new grower like me. Though I've long been a gardening fan, I've rarely grown flowers for cutting and never with a plan. This helped make it managable and fun.

      5 out of 5 stars The new paperback has color pictures!.......2005-02-11

      The new paperback has 28 new color photos with loads of different flowers in them, all identified in the captions and mentioned in the text!

      3 out of 5 stars Wealth of wonderful information, but . . ........2004-08-04

      NO pictures! Not for a novice, like me, who needs pictures to see what the actual plant / flowers look like in a garden. I wish that had been made clear before I purchased the book.

      5 out of 5 stars An American Cutting Garden.......2002-09-23

      Finally a book that helps me navigate through the garden with a bit of information that is useful.I had great success using this text as a tool to prepare my beds for spring and summer. My garden looked beautiful. I experimented with new plants well.
      The Summer Garden
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Ah, Tatia and Shura...
      • This book couldn't be long enough
      • Masterful conclusion to a fantastic epic love story
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      Paullina Simons
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      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Ah, Tatia and Shura..........2007-07-30

      After reading The Bronze Horseman for the third time and Tatiana & Alexander for the second, I got my hands on The Summer Garden (after ordering it from amazon.uk, of course).
      The last in the trilogy, The Summer Garden was worth the wait. It works at a different speed than the other two. Where The Bronze Horseman was white-hot, full of adventure, betrayal and love and Tatiana & Alexander was full of tortured love, The Summer Garden is the "what happens next?"
      When Tatiana and Alexander are finally able to be together, how do the handle their past and still manage to move forward? This book was much more about their relationship, rather than their love. Can they survive the day-to-day life and everything that goes with it?
      Though this may seem like a boring premise for a book, it is actually quite engrossing. Seeing Alexander and Tatiana handle jobs and family and age may throw off some fans of The Bronze Horseman, but I couldn't put it down. I loved following these characters through the years. I think it was a great way to end the trilogy, I felt like I had lived the lives of these characters and when the characters are Tatiana and Alexander, that is a great feeling to have.
      Now that I have finished this trilogy, I look forward to reading Simons' other novels.

      5 out of 5 stars This book couldn't be long enough.......2007-05-02

      I knew that I was going to take my time on this book. It was the last of the triology and I waited SOOO long for this book that it gave me something to look forward to.
      It was in no way, shape or form as good as The Bronze Horseman, but it eloquently ended the saga of Tatiana and Alexander. I was worried through the entire book that I would be depressed for weeks when it was done, but luckily I was wrong.
      Paullina Simons cannot write a bad book. In fact, she cannot even write a good book. She has written only wonderful books.

      5 out of 5 stars Masterful conclusion to a fantastic epic love story.......2007-04-16

      Alexander and Tatiana met and fell in love in The Bronze Horseman. Separated by betrayal and a world war, the two overcame incredible odds to find each other again in Tatiana & Alexander. In The Summer Garden, the final book in the trilogy, they are together at last, yes, but strangers. Changed in irrevocable ways by the circumstances they endured while apart, both must strive to let go of painful memories and learn to communicate again. This book is full of emotional highs and lows, and great joyful moments, as Tatiana and Alexander carve out a new life for themselves and their young son in America. It's a must read for anyone who loved the first two books!
      Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, Preserving, and Drying What You Grow (A Rodale Garden Book)
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      ASIN: 0875966489

      Book Description

      Preserving Summer's Bounty

      Surefire techniques and great recipes for keeping the harvest!

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Good, but not my favorite.......2007-06-16

      This is a good book if you're learning how to can, and it has some good tips and recipes in it, but its not my favorite. I bought this book, along with the Ball 400 Recipes book, and I prefer the Ball book over this one.

      5 out of 5 stars Everything I need with a GREAT layout........2007-01-04

      This book is wonderful in that it has all the information you could possibly want and it is sectioned very well. The only thing that I would prefer is a wider range of recipes for the salsas and things, but then again it is not a cookbook so I can't fault it for that.

      4 out of 5 stars useful book.......2006-08-23

      Good book. Has sensible, usable recipes and canning/preserving information pertaining to a variety of produce. Well written and easily understandable.

      5 out of 5 stars Full of Information.......2005-09-27

      This book is great for the the novice. It covers soup to nuts (literally)!! After my first (successful!) attempt at canning tomato sauce and pickeling zucchini, I wanted to get more out of my garden. This year we had to take a hiatus from producing our own vegatables, but I ordered this book now, so I can be better prepared for next year. This books gives tips on types of vegatables to plant, harvesting tips, and a guide on how to best preserve each item. It has also given me plenty ideas to plan for in the next few years. My goal is build a root cellar in my basement. This book was definatly worth the money for the advice it gave me.

      5 out of 5 stars Great guide.......2004-08-09

      I've recently expanded my preserving repertoire beyond canned tomatoes & pickles and into the worlds of pressure canning, drying, and freezing. This book is perfect for the person exploring these (and other) options for "putting up" food. Especially helpful is the early section of the book with a long list of common fruits and vegetables with a summary of the best methods of preservation. Subsequent chapters present each method in detail (with good explanations of the science behind them) and provide greater detail on how to apply them to specific foods. I've also tried (with good success) several of the recipes that appear toward the end of the book. This was an excellent purchase for my needs.
      Watercolor in Bloom: Painting the Spring and Summer Garden
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        Watercolor in Bloom: Painting the Spring and Summer Garden
        Mary Backer
        Manufacturer: North Light Books
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

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        Book Description

        Painting pretty, prized flowers is easier than you think!

        Using an uncomplicated palette and simple techniques, Mary Backer shares the secrets behind her prize-winning watercolor flowers. From first strokes to final touches, you'll learn everything you need to know to paint brilliant orange poppies, plump peonies, graceful lotus blossoms, classic roses and other garden favorites.

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        My Garden in Summer (My Garden Series)
        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
        • Dated, but of interest to garden historians...
        My Garden in Summer (My Garden Series)
        E. A. Bowles
        Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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        Binding: Hardcover

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        ASIN: 088192413X

        Customer Reviews:

        3 out of 5 stars Dated, but of interest to garden historians..........2000-12-08

        E. A. Bowles book, MY GARDEN IN SUMMER, is part of a several part series of books he wrote describing his garden at Myddelton England during his tenure in the early part of the 20th Century.

        I bought this book because I enjoyed books written by Beverly Nichols, an English writer who moved to the countryside after WWII and rebuilt the garden surrounding an old house. Nichols has the help of an excentric gardener, and all sorts of adventures with his cats and kooky maiden neighbors. I thought Mr. Bowles would prove to be another Brit gardener with a wry sense of humour but he is not -- at least in this book.

        I am also a fan of Elizabeth Lawrence, a horticulturist with the N.C. State government who practiced her craft in the latter part of the 20th Century, beginning in the 1940s. Ms Lawrence referred to Mr. Bowles books in her own books. I love Ms. Lawrence writing because she not only provides the scientific particulars of each plant, she shares the gardening experiences relayed to her via her correspondance -- with Mr. Howdyshel in Ohio and gardeners in other parts of the country. Ms. Lawrence also provides the reader with many anectdotal bits about the plants, as well as the history of the plant. Ms. Lawrence is factual, sometimes amusing though not funny, and I find her books entertaining.

        If MY GARDEN IN SUMMER is a fair sample of Mr. Bowles writing, his book will appeal to no one but the avid historical garden enthusiast with an in-depth knowledge of plants and curiostity about another gardener's experiences with various plants at different times in the last century. Or, someone who intends to visit Myddleton Garden in England, or has visited it might enjoy the book. Being able to see the real thing often helps, and the gardens are being restored--probably why the book was republished.

        Mr. Bowles book contains a dozen or so black and white photos of mixed quality. For some reason, about half of them appear in the section he wrote on sedums and succulents. One photo in particular is very pretty, showing a long terrace with about 30-40 pots of various succulents. I'd like a blow-up of that photograph for it's aesthetic properties. You won't be able to identify many of the succulents in the pots, however.

        An appendix in the back of the book provides the reader with the current names of the plants Mr. Bowles discusses. In spite of this update, I found the sections of greatest interest to me a bit deficient. On my next visit to England, I will visit Myddleton Garden, and then I'll reread the book -- or sections of it. That should help me better appreciate it.

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