Barbara Damrosch is one of the nation's most respected garden experts and writers. She is the author of Theme Gardens and The Garden Primer and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post called "A Cook s Garden." She appeared as a regular correspondent on the PBS series The Victory Garden, and co-hosted the series Gardening Naturally for The Learning Channel. She is the co-owner, with her husband, Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, that is a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.
"Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."--Chicago Tribune "Best of
the crop."--House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the
snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose."--The Seattle
Times/Post Intelligencer "Covers just about everything you could
think of and then some." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "An
extraordinarily comprehensive guide." -- The San Francisco
Examiner-Chronicle "Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor
and plants them firmly in the ground."--The Toronto Star
Beginning gardeners can be overwhelmed by the vast amount of printed information available. Damrosch offers a comprehensive book for the new gardener that clearly explains the basics of garden planning, plant care, and equipment. Detailed chapters on the different categories of plants--annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruits, lawns, shrubs, roses, vines, trees, wildflowers, and even house plants--give general advice on how to use and care for these varieties. A valuable book for public libraries.-- Peter C. Leonard, Mt. Lebanon P.L., Pa.
"Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."--Chicago Tribune
"Best of the crop."--House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's
writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old
rose."--The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer "Covers just
about everything you could think of and then some." -- The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "An extraordinarily comprehensive
guide." -- The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "Takes your
soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the
ground."--The Toronto Star
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