A Year in the Garden: Four Seasons of Texture, Color, and Beauty

By Theodore James

Book Overview

Americans today hunger for a return to the comfort and loveliness of hearth, home, and garden. With A Year in the Gardenthey can find that all year-round. This exquisite visual study of the home garden's seasonal evolution, stands alone in its balance of design, practicality, and cultural roots. Its anecdotal text and hands-on guidance to seasonal plant, color, and texture combinations are peppered with the history-from Tuscan to English-of this overarching approach. Veteran or novice, active gardener or aficionado can reach at any time for this key to all of nature's glorious variety-season after season.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670896691
• ISBN13: 9780670896691
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful - & lots of good information too

A really lovely book - but not just photos. There's lots of good solid gardening info here too. I particularly appreciate the bloom-time schedules for the spring - I never can keep those different tulip types straight!