Read This: Sunset’s Outdoor Living Series
January 31, 2008 My garden bookshelf suffers from a high-school clique problem. It’s the teenage cold war: cheerleaders and jocks versus honor students and geeks. In this case, inspirational eye-candy books with no practical smarts grudgingly share space with intelligent how-to guides dressed down with useful but non-glamorous illustrations. Although ...
Read This: The Landscaping Revolution
May 08, 2007 Last week a friend pulled this book off her shelf and insisted I read it, enthusing that it caused an awakening for her and changed the way she looks at traditional, lawn-centered landscaping. I’m glad she told me about it. It’s a highly persuasive and entertaining book—although ...
Read This: The Beast in the Garden
July 12, 2006 I don’t have to contend with deer in my garden, but I fear that day is coming. Living as I do in an older, in-town neighborhood, separated from the greenbelt-banded, hilly neighborhood to the west by a busy highway, I’ve never had plants chomped by deer or ...
