Interesting book with plenty of good size photographs, but it falls into the same trap as all other books I have come across on dry gardening. Rather than accepting the problem and moving forward from there with a discussion of plants that will happily grow in dry shade it starts out telling us how to do away with dry shade, So following the first chapter about "Understanding Dry Shade" the second chapter proceeds to tell us what to do to change the situation under the headings "Reducing Shade" and "Increasing Moisture" so we no longer have dry shade - the book does not really to live up to the title "Planting in Dry Shade". ( )