landscape gardening

Presents brief, photo-illustrated profiles of more than a thousand plants, each with descriptions and information on cultivation, soil moisture and sun/shade preferences, hardiness and heat zone ranges, and heights and widths, and provides nearly sixty plant lists for special purposes or requirements, such as summer color, scented flowers, shade, or poor soil.

Sir Robert Cecil, an advisor to King James I in 1603, confides in his gardener John Tradescant about the political and social changes that he has to face in the King's court.

Presents advice on designing gardens, caring for trees and flowers, and maintaining lawns. Includes information on constructing walkways, walls, and garden structures.

Tells how to organize outdoor space to provide privacy, comfort, beauty, and ease of maintenance, using earth moving, plantings, and structures.

The author uses humor to describe how to create a yard that is both beautiful and unique to your own personality while offering up a variety of tips about gardening.