What a pleasant surprise after a long day! I find this waiting in the mailbox, a gratis copy of the wonderful new book The Food Lover’s Garden: Amazing Edibles You Will Love to Grow and Eat, by Mark Diacono, published by that bastion of superb gardening and landscape books, Timber Press. It turns out [...]

Anyone connected to gardening, the plant trade, landscape design, and ornamental horticulture knows the name of Michael Dirr. Dr. Dirr’s books are a must have for any serious gardener, in my opinion– so when his Tree & Shrub Finder came out a number of years ago in CD-ROM, I knew I had to have it. [...]