Book Recommendation


I'd like to suggest a book to everyone:  THE ART OF PERENNIAL GARDENING, by
Patrick Lima.  He discusses his many acre garden in Ontario, Larkwhistle,
in great detail.  And what an exquisite garden it is!  This book has lots
and lots of color photos and he has actually identified the plants (I can't
tell you how annoying it is to see a beautiful picture and not know what it
is you're looking at).  Mr. Lima also describes what does and doesn't work
in his garden and why, how certain combinations came about, where he has
gotten his inspirations (can we say "English cottage garden"), and also
some sources of where he purchases his plants.  He also weaves a good tale
of how lame a beginning gardener he really was ("Who cares if purple phlox
was blooming beside the salmon 'Tiger Babies'?  I only knew that everything
was actually living!").  Does this sound familiar to anyone? : - )  Mr.
Lima draws on his own experience to discuss grouping, the importance of
having "bones" in the garden, and how it is always wise to have something
to look up at in the garden besides always looking down.

It is $24.95 for the soft cover (of which I have already begun the process
of dog-earing).  I don't know Patrick Lima, so I'm not getting a profit.  I
only know a good gardening book when I read one.

Val in KY
zone 6a

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