Customer Reviews

The Garden in Bloom

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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!

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.