For Your Garden: Cottage Gardens [Paperback]

Teri Dunn (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567997848
• ISBN-13: 978-1567997842
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 9.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,517,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 30 titles in publication (Friedman-Fairfax, Cool Springs Press, Timber Press). She's written and edited extensively for several major gardening publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Birds & Blooms, Backyard Living).

She brings complex scientific and environmental topics to general audiences in her engaging and accurately researched articles for various regional magazines, including the local Audubon Magazine and the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal.

For clients ranging from Reader's Digest to Storey Publishing to Harris Publications, she project-manages (edits, writes, photo-researches) other authors' books as well as consumer SIPs (Special-Interest Publications). She is also an accomplished travel and food writer.

As a Senior Copywriter, she has worked on-staff and as a consultant to numerous direct-marketing companies (B-to-B as well as B-to-C), from pet supplies to roses to outdoor-living products/furnishings to scented candles. Her copywriting for Jackson & Perkins gained her the industry's highest award, The Catalog Age Gold Award.

She has written and edited for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and Roadsideonline.com), on topics ranging from "Why Greeks and Diners?" to urban- planning issues to comfort-food recipes to iconic on-the-road books.

The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.

Born in California and educated at Bard College in New York, Teri lived for many years on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the ruggedly beautiful rocky coast north of Boston. She now lives in a small upstate New York village where the summers are glorious and the winters are very, very snowy.

She works under the following names: Teri Dunn, Teri Chace, Teri Dunn Chace, Julie Drysdale.

Her website (with clickable work samples) is:
http://terichacewriter.com/

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Sentimental Favorite!, April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: For Your Garden: Cottage Gardens (Paperback)

Are you looking for the perfect look in an empty space or corner of your yard? Why not add a cottage touch! Terri Dunn does a wonderful job showing various cottage gardens and how to create them. What I learned most is that you don't have to have a large space to create a welcoming cottage look. I live in Upstate New York and her chapter "A Cottage Garden For All Seasons" is perfect for me; I never knew a flower garden can look so beautiful in Winter! The photographs are colorful and very detailed. A great buy for a beginning cottage gardener or a veteran!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sweet gem of a book......, December 30, 2002

By 

MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: For Your Garden: Cottage Gardens (Paperback)

Shy 80 pages for the price this is a small book that is fun to read on cold winter days when one is planning what to plant once the weather warms up. The photographs are wonderful as is the dialogue that discusses the pros and cons of certain flowers and herbs in certain garden settings. Pages 28 and 29 are the only two that suggest any hint of the garden in winter.

Since we live in the Sierras we know as do our relatives in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire the joys of berry bushes and other plants that attract winter birds as well as add a bit of colour when cold and snow appear.

This is a book that I think most cottage gardeners will appreciate. And will want in their home library.