The Garden in Bloom [Paperback]

Ann Lovejoy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2002

In her first new collection of essays since "The Border in Bloom", Ann Lovejoy offers informed and entertaining ideas about the art, philosophy, work, and pleasure of gardening. "The Garden in Bloom" is a return to what makes Lovejoy the most popular gardening writer in the Pacific Northwest .

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books (January 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570611394
• ISBN-13: 978-1570611391
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,445,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ann makes gardening fun!, August 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Garden in Bloom (Paperback)

This is the first of Anne's books that I've read and loved and I have since ordered a few more and have met Anne at a class on borders I took at her new Sequoia Center on Bainbridge Island. While the book lacks pictures (still necessary for me) her writing is informative, fun, motivational and reflects a true love of gardening and plants that is infectious. Anne's gardens are casual and comfortable with an emphasis on shapes, colors and textures that go beyond flowers, are easy-care and are really beautiful ever-evolving works of art. She helps you learn that it's okay to get in there and take risks in the garden, and it works!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NO PICTURES, May 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Garden in Bloom (Paperback)

NO PICTURES or even drawings of any kind make this book virtually useless (4 me anyway). Why anyone would put out a gardening book without pictures is beyond me. Especially when you are making specifing recommendations. printed 1987.

Also, another reviewer of another Lovejoy book "The Border in Bloom" says "Lovejoy gardens in the warmest part of the Puget Sound area, and her plant picks reflect that - it would be nice if she had included more information on hardiness zones, at least for the more marginal varieties."

I'm still looking for a list of hardy year round BRIGHT, LIGHT,,COLORFUL folilaged perennials for the Pacific NorthWest.

Right now I'm taking her suggestions and punching them into the computer, searching for pictures. So far her recommendations are very drab.