A 5-star book. A beautifully written ode to the joys of the garden in the third season. Literary, practical and tremendously inspiring. Highly recommended. (And the photos are stellar as well.) ( )

This would be a lovely guide for places like New England where plants don't get squashed flat to the ground by the pounding rain of my adopted home, the Pacific Northwest. Nothing wrong with the ideas and suggestions, just very difficult to execute when one's plant material is a soggy sodden mass of brownish foliage. ( )